kikkod

“...owners of Nest Cam devices will no longer be able to disable the green light that illuminates when the camera is recording.”

There goes the whole baby monitoring market! 

Wasn’t there talk of a low-cost Apple TV streaming dongle in development a while ago? A $20 piece of hardware (or even give it away for free upon sign up to a 2 year subscription) would go a long way to bring in millions of non-apple users - a Trojan horse of sorts that would lead to a number of those new users buying into other parts of the apple ecosystem.

”...fueled by continued calls from critics for Apple to pay its fair share of taxes.” That’s about as plausible as saying that the cars that were incinerated around the Champs Élysée were all Volkswagens, targeted as retribution for the emissions scandal! This is France, a truly wonderful country, with the sole exception of a people so ungovernable that they view any attempt at progress (necessary to save their stagnant economy from generations of governments that capitulate and bow to the demands of the mob rather rather than make less popular but necessary decisions) as an act worthy of decapitation...much like their last monarch. I had hope that Macron would stand his ground and convictions, alas precedent reigns!

jurassic said:

Various reports today are stating that Apple sold less iPhones in the recent holiday quarter than they did a year ago... But as they say in math class, "Do the math."

iPhone sales hit 77.316 million units in Apple’s 91-day Q1 FY 2018 quarter. That compares with 78.29 million sales in the year-ago quarter.

You’d imagine those figures meant that sales shrank, but it’s not the case: Last year’s quarter extended over 98 days (14 weeks), while this year Apple saw a more traditional 91-day (13-week) quarter.

That means Apple sold around 849,600 iPhones every day in Q1 FY 2018, in contrast to 798,877 iPhones it sold each day across Q1 FY 2017.

In other words, Apple sold iPhones in Q1 FY 2018 at a 6.35% FASTER rate than they did in Q1 FY 2017!

Or, another way to put it, if this year's 91 day Q1 was equal to the 98 days of last year's Q1, the total count of iPhones sold would be 83,260,800 (Again, 6.35% MORE than last year!).

Thank you! I did the same simple maths and have been shouting this from the rooftops all day!

...and if you account for the 1m reduction of iPhone channel inventory in this Quarter vs Q1 FY 2018, the total count of iPhones recognized as sold would be 84,260,800! 

Apply the higher ASP’s to these adjusted unit numbers and if memory serves it represents a 23.5% YoY growth in revenue for iPhone.