Report claims iPhone 5, the best-selling smartphone in the world, will ultimately disappoint

Report claims iPhone 5, the best-selling smartphone in the world, will ultimately disappoint:
As analysts continue to hit Apple (AAPL) hard, a new report claims the postmortem ultimately written on the iPhone 5 will reveal disappointing sales relative to initial expectations. Market research firm Strategy Analytics recently released a report claiming that Apple's latest iPhone was the best-selling smartphone in the world during the holiday quarter last year, allowing Apple to reclaim the No.1 spot after Samsung's (005930) Galaxy S III stole the crown earlier in 2012. Despite the phone's current popularity, however, Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt believes the phone will ultimately disappoint.

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