Proving limits to Apple’s corporate clout, HBO has reportedly won the rights to a J.J. Abrams science fiction show called “Demimonde,” which was being shopped around in script form.

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Not only was Apple’s holiday quarter of 2017 a hard compare to previous year’s numbers because of three flagship models, but the year-ago quarter had an extra sales week. AppleInsider breaks down the numbers for a closer look at Apple’s earnings, on a “average per week” basis.

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To mark American Heart Month, which promotes cardiovascular health, Apple is launching a special Activity Challenge for the Apple Watch, which comes with a badge and three animated iMessage stickers for whoever completes it.

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Apple is criticized for making much of its revenues from one hit product: iPhone. However, its newest foray into Wearables has not only become its fastest-growing revenue source behind iPhone, but is also larger and growing more rapidly than other top tech firms’ hyped future growth segments, such as Amazon’s ads business, Google’s Cloud and Alphabet’s Other Bets.

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This week on the AppleInsider podcast, Victor and Neil talk about rumored cuts to “iOS 12” and what stability means, the idea of running iPad apps on an Mac, and what we learned from Apple’s earnings call and its biggest quarter ever.

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Apple led the worldwide smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to fresh statistics from Strategy Analytics, with strong demand for products like iPhone X and iPhone 8 bucking wider market headwinds.

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The addition of the iPhone X that commanded a steeper premium than ever before has made Apple’s financial quarter an interesting one. The changes over time are best illustrated graphically, showing the magnitude of the quarter, as compared to quarters of years past.

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YouTube on Thursday launched its live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, on Apple TV, making good on promises made last year to deliver the product to Apple’s set-top devices.

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Apple is expanding its efforts to make it easier for the enterprise to more efficiently buy or lease iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watch, Apple TV and other products in a new initiative it is initially rolling out with CDW.

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In Apple’s Q1 results call, CEO Tim Cook confirmed that Apple Pay will reach the biggest South American market — Brazil — sometime later this year. [Updated with official webpage]

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