Is Apple the Next Microsoft?

The following video is from Tuesday's Market Foolery, in which host Chris Hill and Motley Fool analysts Mike Olsen and David Hanson give their Foolish take on the biggest investing stories of the day.

Apple delivered a beat on earnings as well as on revenue, and iPhone sales are up 26% year over year from fourth-quarter results in 2012, but the stock was flat on the news. Is Apple stock doomed to lag the market indefinitely? In this segment, the guys discuss why shares didn't pop after this earnings report, and what it means that Apple is starting to look like Microsoft did a few years ago.

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