Those deals came too late in the year to have much of an impact on Apple’s 2013 earnings but should provide a boost to sales this year—and as we saw from Apple’s earnings and market-share announcements yesterday, the company may need the lift. It sold a 51 million iPhones in the final quarter of 2013, a record high that fell short of the 54.7 million units analysts had expected. And Apple forecast that revenues in the current quarter would come in from $42 billion to $44 billion, while analysts were expecting $46.1 billion.