While considering what I was going to write once Apple’s quarterly financials were released, I thought of what I had said previously, that sales and profits would exceed Wall Street expectations, and that the financial community would react in its usual unpredictable fashion.
Over the past few months, it has been variously claimed that sales of [...]

All right, you know the score. Apple blasted earnings estimates out of the water last quarter with sales of $5.7 billion, which included 14 million iPods and one-and-a-quarter million Macs. Both were ahead of the previous year, although the increase in computer sales was relatively modest.
But in a universe where expectations of Apple sales have [...]