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Remember how amazingly most financial analysts, both professional and unaffiliated,

whiffed iPhone sales last quarter?

Now imagine trying to do it again this quarter, part of which may or may not include a new iPhone.

Most analysts have pretty low iPhone expectations for the quarter because most not for sure

we'd not see a new iPhone until October, which would be sales for next quarter, not this one.

But more and more people are glomming on to this idea that we'll see one week of iPhone

sales this quarter, new iPhone sales that is, leaving the people who guess this kind of thing

for fun and profit in a bit of a pickle.

Well, like the Vlastic stork, Gene Munster is one man who knows how to handle a pickle. I may have said that wrong. Fortune has the

Piper Jaffray analyst putting his money where his mouth might end up, which still

doesn't sound good. According to the piece, Uncle Jean has not updated his iPhone expectations for the quarter,

though he is willing to say how many iPhones he thinks Apple could sell if it launches the next iPhone this quarter.

Basically if they get 10 days of new iPhone sales for September,

they could sell between 6 million and 10 million of the devices

before we're done singing Badea. That he thinks would lead to a total of

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