While Apple managed to exceed Wall Street expectations to post an all-time quarterly earnings record for the first calendar quarter of 2020, a period heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of its most important product, iPhone, slumped.
A new lawsuit alleging that Apple is engaged in “flagrant” music piracy on iTunes was levied on Wednesday, following at least two identical cases lodged by the same entities.
Apple says that it is seeing businesses from creative professionals, to health care, and education, adopting Apple hardware such as Apple Watch, and software including Final Cut Pro X.
Early in the Q2 2020 Apple financial results conference call, CEO Tim Cook commented on COVID-19 and its impact on the company. While acknowledging how the quarter was originally shaping up to be very different, Cook expressed confidence in the iPhone maker’s ability to bounce back from the pandemic.
During its quarterly conference call, Apple CFO Luca Maestri shared that the iPhone maker’s wearables division continues to see strong growth and is now the size of a Fortune 140 company.
While supplies last, Amazon is discounting a wide variety of Mophie battery cases and chargers by up to half off. Deals on Apple Watches are also going on now leading up to Mother’s Day, with savings of up to $150 off.
Apple News has hit a new milestone of 125 million active monthly users, Apple CEO Tim Cook said during Thursday’s earnings call for the second fiscal quarter of 2020.