You don't believe for a minute that financial decisions have any weight? Their stock split of a few years back shows Jobs' unconventional financial ideas were only followed as long as he was around.
I don't know of any other tiny, strong, so easy to use access points with style like the express from a company with a known track record. Doesn't need any more features, maintenance could be done on a shoestring, guess that's too boring though.
And yes, financial decisions are financial. But to tie the decision to stop improving a minor product line to "we must appease Wall Street" is quite the stretch.
Growth has plateaued, how do you expect that financials are improving? Through cutting costs. If you don't believe it, well you don't know much about large corps.
I don't know of any other tiny, strong, so easy to use access points with style like the express from a company with a known track record. Doesn't need any more features, maintenance could be done on a shoestring, guess that's too boring though.