Things are going great. Everything is awesome. Apple posted another record quarter, this time the company’s biggest second fiscal quarter, with $97.3 billion in revenue. Almost every product category showed growth. And yet, despite all the great num…
Lees meerEvery quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri make statements and take questions from financial analysts on a conference call. This is the transcript of the call for April 28, 2022. Tim Cook’s opening remarks Thank you Tejas. Good af…
Lees meerOn Thursday, Apple announced its results for the second quarter of its 2022 fiscal year. It was a March quarter record of $97.3 billion in revenue, with all-time quarterly records for iPhone, Mac, and Wearables sales. We’ll be walking through all th…
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Lees meerOver the years, all sorts of entities have purchased the television rights to sporting events at prices that don’t make sense, at least if you’re expecting them to turn a profit directly from the sporting events themselves. Fox famously overpaid for…
Lees meerThe video conferencing cameras we use, how we’d change Siri’s voice, whether we’d tackle an iPhone repair, and our plans (or lack thereof) for leaving Twitter.…
Lees meerApple Newsroom: The new online store offers more than 200 individual parts and tools, enabling customers who are experienced with the complexities of repairing electronic devices to complete repairs on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups and iPho…
Lees meerJason added a (working) Studio Display and a Playdate to his house last week, and Myke’s a little upset. Also CNN+ died, Netflix went into crisis, and Apple kept making sports streaming deals. We also discuss the parking situation at Apple Park, acc…
Lees meerLast week’s strange news tidbit: the full-size HomePod, that most recent of Apple’s perhaps misguided product choices, is going at a premium on the resale market after having been discontinued back in spring 2021. It’s odd but not inexplicable. As m…
Lees meerI use Reincubate’s Camo to turn my iPhone into a high-quality webcam for my Mac. Even an older iPhone’s camera is better than any webcam you’ve got, but mounting it can be fussy, and you have to unlock the phone and launch the Camo app every time yo…
Lees meerFriday afternoon I spent about half an hour showing off the new Panic Playdate on a YouTube Stream. If you’re interested in the new retro handheld game device, check it out!…
Lees meerEmergency podcast! Julia and Jason reconvene for a second time in a week to discuss Netflix’s very bad quarterly results (and how the company will change its behavior and strategy as a result) and the rapid but not entirely surprising death of CNN+.…
Lees meerFederico Viticci uses Audio Hijack 4 scripting to connect his recording sessions to his time tracking: That got me thinking: when I start recording a show, I could run a script that fires off a shortcut that contains a Timery action to start time…
Lees meerListening to last week’s Accidental Tech Podcast made me realize: that the original HomePod and the Apple Studio Display have a few things in common. Both products entered a category full of competition—displays and voice-activated speakers. Both we…
Lees meerWe just don’t talk about Apple Maps enough.…
Lees meerWhen I first tried Ecamm Network‘s live-streaming app Live, I didn’t like it.1 I liked the idea of it. Software that streams live to YouTube, Twitch, and other services is dominated by open-source projects like OBS and Streamlabs and expensive cross…
Lees meerOur charging situations, which collaborative workspaces we prefer, how we protect our digital privacy, and what we’re watching on Apple TV+.…
Lees meerJustin O’Beirne, who keeps a close eye on Apple Maps, has noted that the company has finally expanded its cycling directions in the US: As of April 15, 2022, Apple has quietly added cycling directions for the parts of the Midwest covered in Expan…
Lees meerSpeaking of sports, I recently read Craig Calcaterra’s new book Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game, and I really enjoyed it. I’m a happy subscriber to Calcaterra’s Cup of Coffee newsletter, which gives me a …
Lees meerThe date is set! With the announcement last week that Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is kicking off in just a little under two months, the ramp-up to the biggest event of the company’s year has officially begun. While we don’t yet know how …
Lees meerHow many people does it take to fill John Moltz’s shoes? Two people. One for each shoe.…
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