Now that Apple's 1st quarter financial performance has been revealed, it's time to revisit predictions made by amateurs and pros alike. Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt did just that, and found that the novices out-guessed several high-priced heavyweights.
Fortune has a system to rank the best and worst Apple analysts, measuring how accurately their predictions were across seven categories:
Revenue
Earnings
iPhones sold
iPods sold
Macs sold
iPads sold
Gross Margins
Of those, the unaffiliated analysts took the revenue, earnings, gross margins and unit sales categories. Conversely, the bottom 20 spots were held by folks wo
