Glad I found this chart-AAPL

When talking about some of the fundamental issues surrounding AAPL, from the death of Steve Jobs to battery technology placing a limit on smaller devices, to a range of other issues, the one that I mention most is the dividend AAPL declared, I often make reference to MSFT and how it was a strong growth stock like AAPL until it declared a dividend.

This chart shows you AAPL with MSFT overlaid, see what happens to MSFT after the dividend was declared.

This is MSFT in red going in to 2000 and at the top and AAPL presently, I bet you can guess where the dividend was declared, any way, MSFT never became a growth stock again after that.