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That silence you here is that moment, the one just before release, what the French referred to as

La Petit Moore. Weeks of buildup lead to this quiet, which will give way to a

crescendo at 2 p.m. Pacific 5 p.m. Eastern this afternoon.

That's when Apple holds its first quarter fiscal year 2015 earnings call,

praises to various deities and cigarettes to be served after.

In the meantime, a number of analysts did some finally helping Monday.

The telegraph out of the UK had the financial firm UBS saying that Apple is expected to announce that it sold more iPhones in China in the first

quarter of fiscal year 2015 than it sold in the US.

This sets up what may be an unrealistic expectation.

It is quite possible that Apple sold more iPhones in China in the first quarter of fiscal year 2015

than it did in the US, but the company doesn't usually break down sales by region the way the

telegraph expects it will. The thing about China though, it's a wild card.

Tim Cook speaks often of how important to market China is for Apple.

Announcing the sale of more iPhones there than an Apple's home country would certainly illustrate that point.

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