Apple will post iPhone sales gains next week, ending a 9-month slump

Apple next week will report a return to iPhone growth after a three-quarter slump, a group of financial analysts predicted.
According to Philip Elmer-DeWitt, the creator of the Apple 3.0 website, 12 institutional and 5 independent analysts all forecast a year-over-year increase in iPhone sales during the December quarter.
The average sales figure from the 17 analysts was 77.3 million iPhones, which would represent a 3.4% increase over the 74.8 million Apple reported for the fourth quarter of 20