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If you've listened to this show for any length of time, you know that Macworld tends to be one of the least productive weeks of the year

where this show is concerned.

So I kind of have one story today and a correction to something I've said all week.

Story first. Yesterday I said with Apple's habit of

under-promising and over-delivering on earnings, I'd expect to see the

street's expectations climb a decent bit between now and the end of March.

Technically this turns out to have been true since technically today is between when I said what I said and the end of March

which will also mark the end of the current quarter.

I really didn't expect it to happen so soon from so many though.

Fortune has a boatload of analysts not only responding to Apple's stellar first quarter of fiscal year 2012,

but also raising their expectations for the quarter we currently call home.

Barclay's capital analyst Ben Reitzus says the numbers posted by Apple were beyond all of his firm's most

bullish scenarios, especially for iPhones and iPads.

And that can keep going given the low channel inventories and demand in China.

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