You're treating investors like idiots here, the priority of investors is always $$$

You don't seem to understand the distinction I outlined: unlike long-term investors, speculative traders with short-term investment intent don't care about a company's profit, only its share prices.

Releasing more information won't compel anyone into doing anything.

Good news: today you get to learn about Goodhart's Law!

As I said, adverting unit sales as a key metric encourages (not "compels") Apple to build short-term growth in hardware sales numbers… and as the Wikipedia editors said:

regardless of whether or not their behavior is profit-maximizing.