Apple is probably the only company in the world to severely disappoint Wall Street by reporting 20% growth compared to the same quarter a year earlier. Most companies would love to have that sort of growth. The problem is that Apple had been growing at a phenomenal and unprecedented 50-120% rate the past 10 quarters. By most measures, it was a great quarter for Apple, which sold 17 million iPads and 26 million iPhones. That was a record number of iPads, and a big jump from the previous quarter's 11.8 million.