I personally feel comfortable trading in technology stocks. They're more safer than other (it may also depend on my taste, but that's what it is). For Apple, the excellent thing was, though Steve Job resigned it is still the safer stock to buy. 49 / 51 experts preferred to 'buy' and/or 'hold' apple shares.
Moreover, this is something for apple here on this link:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/08/apple...of-competitors/