No one on Wall Street seems to think Applehad a good quarter, which could set the iPhone maker up to surprise analysts.
“Our channel checks on Apple indicate weaker iPhone shipments for the quarter but not as weak as we had originally expected,” Goldman Sachsanalyst Rod Hall wrote in a report last week. “We believe that Apple performed relatively well in the smartphone market due to its strong online presence aided by short term stimulus and the economic rebound from COVID-19 lows.”
https://fortune.com/2020/07/30/apple-earnings-q3-what-to-expect-iphone-sales-tim-cook/