"It's very hard to gauge demand, as you know, when you're selling everything you're making."

The original amateur Apple analyst regularly clobbered the pros.
Apple analysts, time to dust off your spreadsheets.
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None of the analysts who follow Apple covered themselves with glory this time around.
"We think the sell-off creates an attractive entry point for investors given fundamentals are largely intact..."
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"Given the Pokémon hype has died down, we believe any upside to services growth from Pokemon will be backed out by the Street."
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"Despite tightly managing supply through the Q, AAPL should still be able to beat and guide at least in-line if not a touch better."
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Apple's least sexy product has overtaken every Apple gadget except the iPhone. This is a story best told with charts. I've got three. The first is a pie…
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