Amid the roiling waters of the stock market and economy, which have tossed tech investors around for weeks, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs made a special guest appearance on Apple's fourth-quarter earnings call Oct. 21 to try to calm things down. Profits soared on knockout iPhone numbers and strong Mac and iPod sales. But Jobs wanted to make a point broader than any one quarter's results.

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