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It's Monday the 13th of July 2015.

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You know who thinks Apple's going to sell more iPhones than the financial analysts on Wall

Street do? It seems the answer is every financial analyst on Wall Street. It's a paradox wrapped in a conundrum. Smothered in cheese.

Behrens had Raymond James analyst Tavis McCord issuing a note late last week wherein he upped his iPhone sales expectations for the recently

ended June quarter. McCord had been looking for Apple to sell 46 million iPhones in the

quarter. He's now looking for the company to have sold 50 million units.

McCord likes the fact that interest in iPhone doesn't seem to be seeing the drop-off

it normally sees this time of year. This time of year is of course the time of year.

This time of year is, of course, the time a year

that people tend to hold off on buying new iPhones

because a really new iPhone will likely be out by the end of September. Also, McCourt sees evidence in the supply chain to support last week's claim from the Wall Street Journal that

Apple is preparing to make an unprecedented number of new iPhones between now and the end of the year.

And yet he's got a ho-hum market-perform rating on Apple's shares.

That's because while Apple is preparing to sell more phones this year than it did the same time last year.

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