Apple's actions in China regarding the removal of unlicensed VPN apps are not at odds with its refusal in the US to unlock an iPhone that belonged to a San Bernardino shooter, Apple's chief executive said during Tuesday's post-earnings conference call with investors and analysts.
In addition to an upcoming HomePod rival with a fifteen-inch screen, Facebook's secretive “Building 8” hardware lab is also supposedly working on a dedicated video chat device for the home that would make it seem like people are in the same room, according to Bloomberg's sources who spoke with reporters Mark Gurman and Sarah Frier.
Apple announced during yesterday's earnings call with Wall Street analysts and investors that its contactless mobile payments system is coming to customers in the United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Finland and Sweden before the end of this calendar year.
Facebook is poaching Apple veterans and tasking them with building a “Siri-style voice assistant” that should power the company's rumored wireless speaker and another upcoming device dedicated to video chatting, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
While Apple's Project Titan reportedly shifted gear and is currently focused on autonomous driving software rather than the actual car hardware, that doesn't necessarily mean that the Cupertino technology giant doesn't have some big plans in that space.
Since its debut ten years ago in June of 2007, Apple's iPhone has managed to move a total of 1.2 billion cumulative units globally, remaining the most popular smartphone model in the world in terms of unit sales, brand power and influence.
Living in a time where mindless entertainment is only one touch (or app) away can make it incredibly hard to focus on the simplest tasks and really get your head down for uninterrupted, productive work. If you can relate to the struggle, Forest, an app best described as a good-natured trojan horse inside the world of apps, could be a service to tickle your fancy.
iOS has had the same boring numeric passcode interface for what seems like an eternity, but other operating systems like Android let users ‘draw’ patterns to unlock their device instead.
Although most people are using Touch ID to unlock their Apple devices today, jailbreakers can now use a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Musubi by iOS developer c0ldra1n to bring an Android-inspired pattern passcode interface to iPhones and iPads.
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Apple announced the financial results for its fiscal third quarter of 2017 this afternoon, and the numbers for the 3-month period are outstanding. All metrics were up from the year-ago quarter, including a 7% increase in revenue and 2% increase in iPhone sales.
Following the release of its earnings, CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri hopped on a conference call to talk about Apple’s performance over the last 3 months, and offer up some insights into its future. Here are some of the more interesting points from the call.
Apple has 185 million paid subscriptions across all services. Apple services have added 20 million new subscribers over last 3 months. Walmart deploying 20K+ iPads to employees in the US. iPad sales grew in all geographical segments, with strong double-digit growth in the U.S. and Greater China. CFO Luca Maestri: iPhone channel inventory the lowest in 2.5 years. iPhone ASP (average selling price) at $606, up from $595 in the year-ago quarter. Tim Cook: 2/3 of Apple's employees are in the United States. We'll have more to say about that later in the year. Apple has new advanced $1 billion manufacturing fund for US companies. First $200 million goes to Corning Glass. Tim Cook: I think AR is big and profound. This is one of those things we'll look back at and marvel at the start of it. Apple has brought in talent behind Breaking Bad and The Crown to help with content creation. Cook: In terms of autonomous systems, we're very focused on it from a core tech point of view. We have a large project ongoing, and we're making a big investment in this. Apple retail and online stores saw over 300 million visitors this quarter.Apple's stock is up 6% in after-hours trading on the back of today's strong performance report. If you want to listen to today’s earnings call, a replay will be available here for a limited time.
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Apple on Tuesday reported its [fiscal] Q3 2017 earnings, offering a look at its performance over the last 3 months. The company says that during the period it sold 41 million iPhones, up slightly from the year-ago quarter, and made $45.4 billion in revenue, also up from last year. Here's a full breakdown of the numbers.
This quarter's numbers compared to those from Q3 2016:
Revenue: $45.4 billion versus $42.4 billion last year, up 7% iPhones: 41 million versus 40.4 million last year, up 2% iPads: 11.4 million versus 10 million last year, up 15% Macs: 4.3 million versus 4.2 million last year, up 1%And here are some comments from Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri:
“With revenue up 7 percent year-over-year, we’re happy to report our third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth and an all-time quarterly record for Services revenue,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We hosted an incredibly successful Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and we’re very excited about the advances in iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS coming this fall.”
“We reported unit and revenue growth in all our product categories in the June quarter, driving 17 percent growth in earnings per share,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. “We also returned $11.7 billion to investors during the quarter, bringing cumulative capital returns under our program to almost $223 billion.”
Apple will be starting its conference call shortly, so stay tuned for more highlights from their Q3 earnings.