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a surprise.

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A surprising iPhone expectation, Apple takes a bite out of business and sudden changes

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Morgan Stanley analyst Katie Huberty is expecting a surprisingly large number of

iPhones to be sold this quarter.

Well, surprising to other people anyway.

She's expecting it, so it won't be a

surprise to her. Electronista has the Katie Cat saying Apple is likely to have

sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 39 million iPhones by the end of the June quarter.

She makes that guesimate based on sales numbers through the end of May from the likes of

I.C. Google Insights and research by her own firm. If she's right, the $39 million would be

substantially better than sales of the iPhone for the same quarter a year ago.

Those came in at 31.2 million units. It would also be better than the average

expectation of iPhone sales for Wall Street. Currently that stands at 35 million

units.

Huberty credits promotions from Apple, retailers, and carriers for the high sales.

Two particular sales drivers are said to be the rollout in select countries of the 8

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