Thoughts on AAPL growth?

Hey all! Investment mostly-noob here. I remember the whole brouhaha with AAPL stock about a year ago now? (Can't remember exactly when it was). Everyone was buying it or talking about buying it and it was crazy expensive, etc. I recently went back to check on the stock since I hadn't heard any clamoring about it in a while. I noticed that the stock's increased by around 40%ish in the past year. My question is basically the following:

1. If AAPL stock has been doing so well, why hasn't there been as much hype about the stock as there was before? Have I just not been paying attention?

2. Why do you think Apple has been doing so well? I haven't noticed them make any significant changes to product lines, etc. But they're also not the most transparent communicators. And, as I said, I haven't really been paying close attention to the company.

Submitted March 31, 2017 at 11:36AM by barriss http://ift.tt/2nHIGTu