At the start of the Year of the Snake and in a week whose wicked winter weather took its name from a film featuring sharks and barracudas Wall Street was understandably in its element. Stocks finished Friday at fresh highs following on from their best January since 1997.   Back then an ascendant Michael Dell (DELL) famously said “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders ” apropos of an ailing Apple Inc. (AAPL). Fast-forward 16 years and an unloved Dell has just been taken private for $24.4 billion while Apple is under attack for the unlikely problem ...