Apple’s most recent results demonstrated the firm’s continuing ability to turn its iPhones into gold, despite mounting fears, for the medium term at least, about its over-reliance on a single product family which lives in a market with rising competition and slowing growth. Apple may not be the innovator it once was, but the anniversary iPhone 8 promises to postpone its real smartphone woes for another holiday season at least, especially if it can start to claw back position in China from the ascendant Huawei – although the Chinese company plans to unleash its high end Mate 10 in the same timeframe as the new iPhone. In its third fiscal quarter, Apple achieved revenues of $45.4bn, up 7% year-on-year, with…