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iPhone sales are falling, and Apple’s app fees might be next
As iPhone sales slip, Apple has been positioning its booming digital-services business as its new profit engine…
When Apple runs the hub, who pays?
Apple’s role as a hub means different things for different types of companies…
Erasing complexity: The comfort of Apple’s ecosystem
Every year soon after WWDC, I install the beta of the upcoming version of iOS on my devices and embark on an experiment…
Apple’s HomePod is openly hostile to any hardware or service not made by Apple
The notion of Apple’s ‘walled garden’ ecosystem of products precedes even the iPhone…
CNET reviews Apple’s HomePod: Strong wireless speaker with awesome sound
The Apple HomePod produces awesome sound across a broad range of genres…
How to use your new HomePod with your Apple TV
I recently got a new 4K UHD television set and purposefully didn’t invest in a sound bar because…
David Pogue hands-on with Apple’s HomePod: ‘Better sound than any competitor’
After missing its holiday shipping deadline, Apple is almost ready to release the HomePod…
How will Sonos compete against Apple’s HomePod?
Over the past 16 years, the wireless speaker company Sonos has had to contend with a parade of naysayers…
Apple’s HomePod speaker requires an iOS device to work
HomePod is currently strictly for Apple device owners…
Apple’s HomePod, the iPod for your home
Apple’s HomePod will take the high end of the smart speaker market…
London School of Economics: Why the iPhone X matters to Apple
Apple is one of the world’s most valuable and richest firms…
Apple grows their ecosystem – and their advantage
Apple slipped off its high horse in 2015 and 2016…
Apple’s iPhone 7 keeps converting Android users
Apple on Tuesday released its financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017…
Apple: Can services save the day?
I recently read an interesting article containing excerpts from last week’s Macquarie note…
Apple will have to earn its next $1 trillion in the cloud
Lost in the hand-wringing over Apple’s iPhone 13% year-over-year slide in sales is the recognition…
iOS will hit $1 trillion in revenues for Apple sometime this year
In its first 10 years, the iPhone will have sold at least 1.2 billion units, making it the most successful product of all time…
PC Magazine’s Miller: Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus is the best smartphone I’ve ever used
For the past several weeks, I’ve been using an iPhone 7 Plus, and have found it to be a wonderful smartphone…
The merits of using iCloud Drive on the iPad
For me, a perfect world in terms of productivity at the office as well as at home would reside exclusively around Apple products…
Apple is reinventing itself before our eyes – and that makes AAPL a strong buy
Just when seemingly everyone was ready to give up on Apple, they shocked everyone by soundly beating earnings expectations…
iPhone ASP decline in Q316 shows Apple’s Services strategy at work
The 40 million iPhones Apple sold in the June quarter brought in an average of $595 each…
Bernstein: Apple could be first to $1 trillion market value, propelled by services revenue – Cramer agrees
With consumers paying a monthly fee for their devices and services…
Why services may be the key to Apple’s comeback
Apple’s post-earnings sell-off was no surprise. For the first time in 13 years, revenue contracted…
Apple finds itself in uncharted territory
No, this isn’t another takedown of Apple Maps…
Apple now makes more money from services than by selling Macs
The overall shift means Apple’s services unit is now the company’s second largest category…
6+ reasons why Apple iPhones don’t matter anymore
While it has only been a few weeks since I last said it, it’s worth repeating in context of Apple’s recent financial results…
What everyone’s missing in Apple’s across-the-board earnings miss
Judging from the pundits, the sky has started to fall on Apple’s halcyon days…
Apple services now reach 124 million U.S. adults as user base expands
With Apple set to report second quarter earnings on Tuesday, observers will be watching for two big trends…
Apple’s services business saw massive 60% profit margins in 2015, more growth expected
Apple’s iTunes, the various App Stores, Apple Music, Apple Pay, Apple Care and miscellaneous licensing revenue…
The key to Apple’s success
Has Apple lost the focus that brought it to the success of today?
Credit Suisse: Apple’s underappreciated services business could be growth engine
One part of Apple‘s business is undervalued and overlooked: Services…
As it passes 2 million locations, does Apple Pay really matter?
In the weeks since Apple’s earnings, a number of metrics have come to light that testify to Apple Pay’s impressive growth…
Strong dollar impacts Apple’s earnings in a major way
Apple would have generated $80.8 billion in revenue, up 8% year over year…
Apple’s attempt to draw attention away from iPhone sales leaves Wall Street unimpressed
Sometimes, giving investors extra insight into a promising new line of business works wonders with Wall Street…
Jim Cramer: The Apple analysts are blowing it
Cramer considers all of these analysts to be traditionalists, and they are all looking at Apple as if it were…
Apple pounded by wave of price target cuts
Consumer electronics giant Apple saw its shares fall sharply Wednesday, a day after the company reported mixed December-quarter results…
Apple CEO Cook’s focus on India is insanely great
Apple reported record Q1 revenue yesterday, warning that Q2 iPhone sales may shrink slightly because of global economic and social instability…
Apple CEO Cook: We’re seeing ‘extreme conditions unlike anything we’ve experienced before’ in the global economy
What’s keeping the CEO of a company that just reported the most profitable quarter in history up at night?
Jim Cramer: Apple Inc. is set to outperform
Apple sold a total of 74.8 million iPhone units; that figure is an all-time high but was slightly under consensus estimates…
Apple CEO and CFO see broad global economic ‘weakening’
Following fiscal Q1 results that missed expectations on the top line, Apple…
Most Apple analysts maintain positive ratings, but cut price targets
Apple just posted the most profitable in the history of free-market capitalism, but…
Piper Jaffray: iPhone to resume growth in 2016 despite poor macroeconomy
Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri mentioned negative macro trends nine times during prepared statements, and another four in the Q&A session…