Hold Your AAPLause …

“We’re thrilled to report our best quarter ever.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs has uttered those words, or a variation on them, after most of the company’s earnings reports in recent memory. Will he speak them once again Tuesday, when Apple offers the outside world a peak at its financials? Or has the worsening economic crisis and the continued deterioration of consumer confidence stricken them from “Quarterly Earnings Statement” template in Apple PR for the time being?