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If there's a theme for Apple shares right now it might be they're so bad they're good.

Fortune ran a piece yesterday noting the surge in reductions for iPhone sales expectations

that's been going on for about the last month.

Quoting the piece, spoke by warnings from Asian smartphone parts suppliers,

at least 17 Apple analysts over the past four weeks have lowered their iPhone estimates for the current quarter, which ends on March 26th.

That is an Apple shares from about $113 where they were trading mid-December to as low as $95 last Friday,

though they'll start trading in a little over $100 today, because maybe $95 was low enough.

Quoting Fortune's Tuesday morning piece.

At this point the anticipated damage from March has probably been baked into the stock.

Over night Bank of America upgraded Apple from neutral to buy,

and the stock opened Tuesday up nearly 2% from Monday's close.

And B of A was not alone.

Wamsi Mohan, which sounds like a Native American tribe from New England, but is in fact an analyst

with Merrill Lynch also moved Apple from neutral to buy. Merrill Lynch doesn't give copies of its reports to the media, but in the age of the internet, who needs him to?

Baron says, according to a write-up by the fly on the wall, Mohan's firm took a survey and found that demand for the

iPhone is still strong in China.

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