John Martellaro is getting tired of writers who are making a fuss about how Tim Cook can’t cut it and how Apple will slide into mediocrity under his leadership. Let’s look at the facts instead.

Now that Apple has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, some bloggers find it hard to resist exploring the idea that all companies have a natural business cycle: birth, maybe a mini-death, revival, and final demise.  It’s an intriguing proposition, especially for Apple fans who are especially touchy about the prospect. What’s a good approach to all this fuss? John Martellaro has some perspective.

Apple certainly appears to be on a typical business arc. A struggling computer company hits the big time, suddenly has lots of money, new products are added, its list of competitors grows, and that takes the company into endless court proceedings against those competitors. Then serious security issues crop up. Suddenly the U.S. DOJ is interested in some business practices. What’s next?

Apple, after many years of leading the way in home networking, Wi-Fi and IPv6, has suddenly become rather quiet about IPv6 and the AirPort Extreme. It’s a mystery, and one that’s fascinating to follow. In other tech news debris, Rich Mogull has published two thought-provoking articles on Mac security and CNET has published two fabulous articles on the technical details related to the Flashback Trojan.

Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has been about the business of fine tuning Apple, making some needed improvements and taking decisive action. It would be nice to see heightened attention to Apple’s OS security methodology added to the list.

Tim Cook has been in China this week to deal with a variety of issues. That’s very good news: the captain of the Apple ship is getting out and about, some wind in his hair. In other news debris, one deeper analysis article looks at why companies can’t compete with the iPad and are dropping into fear. Another takes a deep foray into the fiery plains of thermonuclear patent war.

Apple’s iPad 3 has been the subject of “heatgate” this week. John takes a look at all that fuss and his experiences with his own iPad 3. Plus, he has the standard edition of tech news debris: Why can’t you use FaceTime over LTE? Has Apple exhausted the ways it can make life miserable for Google? And contrary to the conventional wisdom, customers continue to embrace Blu-ray. What a concept.

John Martellaro launches this week’s Particle Debris with a discussion about not just the Post-PC era, but the death of the PC and survival of the Macintosh. In the rest of the debris, some overlooked features of iOS are referenced. Has Google replaced Microsoft as the jealous rich kid, not invited to the party? Finally, is the Apple HDTV nearing production? Also: TWoW returns.

In this week’s Particle Debris, John takes a look at his recent iPad, Apple TV and patent predictions and keeps score. Plus, is the display in the new iPad really a Retina display? How did Apple do it? Plus, why doesn’t the iPad have Siri? And will Apple have one e-wallet to rule them all?

Apple has some interesting decisions to make about the iPad 3. It’s a balance between extreme tech bleeding edge and high costs vs. what’s needed to compete for the next 12 months. Or eight months, if you believe John Martellaro’s thesis. Plus interesting snippets on Mountain Lion, Windows 8, a Linux family scuffle, and the relaunch of Ze Frank’s amazing show.