Infinite Loop / The Apple Ecosystem  Analysts reaffirm NPD
figures no cause for AAPL alarm  After several analyst reports
caused Apple's stock price to fall by several …  In case you
don't follow Apple's stock price closely, the latter part of
last week wasn't exactly kind to AAPL. On Thursday, shares of
Apple's stock fell a little over three points as analyst reports
caused a bit of panic among shareholders. Following the sell-
off, Neddham & Co. analysts Charlie Wolf and Jim Lewellis issued
their own research note, in which they recommend investors buy
the stock, saying that the price drop and research reports
aren't anything to worry about.  Most of Thursday's report was
based on the new NPD numbers that predicted slight sales
decreases for the current quarter. In their report, the Needham
analysts specifically refer to the sell-off as an
"overreaction," and offer a variety of reasons for why that's
the case. For one thing, the NPD numbers are only based on one
month's worth of sales, so there's still a lot