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Concerns around coronavirus, Wall Street hoops and hollers in a good way, and a slew of

smallish updates.

It's Thursday, the 30th of January, 2020.

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It's amusing to me in a perverse way that Apple analysts have worried for years that iPhone

owners might throw over their Apple communicators for something from Samsung

but don't seem terribly concerned about the coronavirus, an illness that's shutting down cities and

halting travel in some cases.

Maybe it's faith and authorities, maybe it's a lack of understanding, maybe it's stiff upper liping, keep calm and carry on and such.

Financial analysts reacted to Apple's first quarter fiscal year 2020 earnings report with

predictable excitement while while T.F.

international analyst Ming Chi Quo laid out his expectations for Apple products in the

first half of 2020, assuming we avoid the worst of what coronavirus has to offer. He also addressed

that which is where we'll begin. Apple Ensider has young MC seeing five potential risks for Apple due to the

coronavirus. Consumer confidence may be shaken. Quo thinks iPhone shipments

will drop month over month and year over year in the Chinese market

thanks to the virus.

The way he sees it, shipments of Apple products will likely face downside risk because

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