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PREFACE
For the last several weeks we have started each dossier on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) with exactly this preface:

The headlines will have you believe Apple is dead and other than a handful of institutions like Goldman Sachs, RBC and Capital Market Laboratories (CML), Wall Street is yet again underestimating the demand for Apple's brand.


Today, yet more evidence has surfaced that Apple is not only doing better than Wall Street expects, but Apple's iPhone 7 sales may smash current forecasts.

BREAKING
Apple stock is up 1.5% on large trading volume based on a report from Taiwan that iPhone 7 suppliers are seeing substantially higher demand production required from the firm, well above forecasts.

Taiwan's Economic Daily came out with a report that claimed this:


You can read that again: "That production target is also the highest in about two years." Now the iPhone 7 isn't due for release until September, following Apple's scheduled releases over the last decade, so we will not see these numbers in earnings until the calendar year-end earnings report.

This is not short-term news, but rather intermediate-term. The stock market however is always forward looking and that's why Apple stock has risen 7% off of its lows and appears to be headed higher.

Earlier this morning on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street," Jim Cramer said:


Forecasts had called for 65 million iPhone 7s to be produced by the end of 2016, so this 72 million to 78 million range is in fact a smashing of forecasts. Of course, the iPhone 7 hasn't been released yet, so this is an estimate on Apple's part, not a hard fill of orders in hand.

However, given Apple's caution in its latest earnings release and its rapid production slow down for the iPhone 6S that had a ripple effect across not only its suppliers, but the technology world in general, this new production ramp up from the iPhone 7 should be taken seriously.

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After Apple's earnings release, CML Pro noted that Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google's Android switchers were at their highest level in years and that iPhone 7 pent up demand was in fact stronger than most analysts were forecasting. Goldman Sachs echoed that mood, explicitly stating:


Last week CML Pro reported that "Apple's New iPhone SE Sales are Outpacing Demand." In that report we noted a 2-3 week waiting period for an online or in store order for the new iPhone SE, Apple's smaller sized iPhone. Here is the screen capture we shared:



And then there's main stream media -- Apple Insider also reported on the iPhone SE:


That report was released back in the late March period.

And while we're at it, the Chinese company that was supposed to kill Apple in China just reported zero growth in 2015. Here's the headline from CNBC: "Xiaomi sales near flat in 2015, says report."

It's the flavor of the month to doubt Apple. We would caution that doubt with at least a bit of perspective.

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Thanks for reading, friends. The author is long Apple shares in his personal account.