Apple's fiscal second quarter results, reported two years ago this week, produced a string of genuine records: an all-time Services revenue high, the largest share buyback in company history, a new earnings-per-share record for the March quarter. Morningstar's verdict on the Apple Q2 earnings analysis was blunt: "a weak fiscal 2024, but optimism for 2025." That framing tells you everything about how analysts actually read the quarter. The results beat consensus on revenue, EPS, Services, Mac,...