Noteworthy: Apple "analyst" Gene Munster predicted 4.3 million iPads sold in 2010. (http://read.bi/cYCppW)
Actual results: 7.33 million just last quarter.
Actual results: 7.33 million just last quarter.
Philip Elmer DeWitt at Apple 2.0 already has you covered, every quarter he rounds up all the analysts' predictions and after actual results are announced, he writes about the outliers. He also tracks how often the analysts are right/wrong.
Apple Q1 2011 earnings preview: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/18/apple-q1-2011-earning...
Hell, people were giving Leo Laporte a hard time because he came in with one of the highest estimates, at (I think) over 5 million.