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The Role of FileMaker in Apple’s COVID-19 Strategy⇢
Eric Rosenbaum, writing at CNBC:
Apple’s iPhone revenue declined in the first quarter 2020, but a big jump in services revenue and more than $10 billion from its wearables category highlight newer sources of growth. The Covid-19 pandemic hurt the quarterly earnings overall, but Apple CEO Tim Cook indicated that more recent sales numbers provide reason for optimism, and at least one Apple business expects the coronavirus to accelerate rather than hinder its near-term success.
Apple Posts Q2 2020 Results⇢
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 second quarter ended March 28, 2020. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $58.3 billion, an increase of 1 percent from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.55, up 4 percent. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
“Despite COVID-19’s unprecedented global impact, we’re proud to report that Apple grew for the quarter, driven by an all-time record in Services and a quarterly record for Wearables,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “In this difficult environment, our users are depending on Apple products in renewed ways to stay connected, informed, creative, and productive. We feel motivated and inspired to not only keep meeting these needs in innovative ways, but to continue giving back to support the global response, from the tens of millions of face masks and custom-built face shields we’ve sent to medical professionals around the world, to the millions we’ve donated to organizations like Global Citizen and America’s Food Fund.”
Connected #292: M’Duck⇢
The trio gives a math lesson before follow-up on the Magic Keyboard and iPhone SE. Then, our plans for WWDC.
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CleanMyMac X Now in the Mac App Store⇢
Oleksandr Kosovan, the CEO of MacPaw, sharing the news that CleanMyMac X is now on the Mac App Store:
In 2018, CleanMyMac X switched to a subscription model — a ubiquitous way of getting apps on the Mac App Store. The same year (2018), Apple significantly improved the store itself with a new design and curated content. The fact that the Mac App Store became much better and that it supported subscriptions, made us work on building CleanMyMac X for the Mac App Store.
Todoist Adds ‘Upcoming’ View⇢
Ryan Christoffel has the details, but I am really liking what I’ve seen of this so far.
Kbase Article of the Week: iMac: Pressing Apple USB Keyboard Power Button Does Not Turn on Computer⇢
Press the power button on the front on the iMac computer instead.
You can use the Apple USB Keyboard with all iMac computers, but the circuitry that enables the keyboard’s Power button is not present on the models listed above. Therefore, pressing the Power button on the keyboard will have no effect.
Then, there’s this gem:
The parenthetical product descriptions (Summer 2000) and (Summer 2001) refer to the summer of the Northern Hemisphere.
Backstage⇢
Backstage is a members-only podcast from Relay FM. Each month, co-founders Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett will give a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to run the network, and share their knowledge to help you create a podcast or start a creative project.
Backstage is published in our normal Members Only feed, but we’ve made the first episode available for everyone. If you aren’t a member, now’s the time to sign up!
Sponsor: SoundSource from Rogue Amoeba⇢
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iPhone SE Teardown⇢
It probably shouldn’t be a surprise how much the new iPhone SE and 8 have in common, but iFixit shows just how many parts between the two phones are interchangeable — including the camera module.
Mac Power Users #533: Feeling Frisky with my Money⇢
On this feedback episode, David shares some about an upcoming studio move, and Stephen talks about recent experimentation with a teleprompter. Also on the docket: connected home cameras, more on working from home and the iPhone SE.
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Five Years of Apple Watch
This anniversary snuck up on me, but thankfully plenty of other folks have put together some great content marking the date.
Of course, Rene Ritchie has a great video up:
… and here are some links worth checking out:
- Joe Rossignol has written a nice timeline piece on MacRumors
- David Smith’s original batch of Apple Watch apps
- My review of the original Apple Watch
- MacStories’ overview of the original Apple Watch release
- A cool Twitter thread by Imran Chaudhri about some early design work on the Apple Watch.