This article is a couple of weeks old, it predicts that iphones sales had peaked last Christmas and would be dropping off… he was proven amazingly wrong yesterday and had undershot the number of iphones sold. While this has already been pointed out by Gruber as ‘claim chowder’ (which is delicious), I think a great point has been missed.
The author points out, in his ‘I was wrong, but please don’t make fun of that in the comments’ update, that the reason was an honest mistake.
They were due to Chinese New Year gift-giving
Oh! that explains it.
Analysts are funny sometimes.