Your endless repeating of the Qtr to Qtr Mantra is getting old.
If a long repeated a positive thing half as much you would have posted on and on about the excessive hyping.
Apple computer had revenes fall by 26.8% in the Qtr ended March 31 07 vs Dec 31 06.
All the Apple stock has done since is go up.
True investors look at more than one thing.
In the long run Year to Year is more important imho.