Historically, quite often because of this fact, AAPL declines after Jan earnings. Armed chair analysts who didn’t know think that stock analysts are honest in what they are saying in public but they are playing the game according to what clients want. Is easy to cook up some bearish observations to push AAPL down for Jan earnings. Used to be fairly consistent when earning is always before monthly Jan OE until SJ got very pissed and varied the earning day in Jan. In short, can ignore the ignorant comments.