by Ed Baig, USA TODAY

by Ed Baig, USA TODAY

I've said many times that anticipating Apple's next move has long
been a fool's errand.

But I'm not sure I've ever been more wrong than I was in the early 1990s, when I was a young reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

I was covering the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino, Calif., when Apple co-founder