Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors):
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $2.40, up 10 percent year over year.
Apples gross margin is up to 46.9 percent, not a surprise if you’ve seen what they charge for storage and RAM these days.
Jason Snell:
Probably most notable is that iPhone revenue was down 1% from the year-ago quarter, which will certainly upset some analysts and investors, given that the iPhone is more than half of Apple’s total revenue. But the Mac jumped 16%, the iPad was up 15%, and services was up 14%. The recently sluggish Wearables, Home, and Accessories category was down 2%.
Michael E. Cohen and Adam Engst:
The big winner in the category revenue race was Services, which brought in a record $26.3 billion, up $3.2 billion from last year. Consequently, Services grew to account for 21% of Apple’s overall revenues, while an iPad rebound boosted its share to 7%, and Macs remained steady at 7%.
John Voorhees:
Going into today’s earnings call, Apple’s stock was downgraded by multiple analysts. Factors cited in the downgrades included weak sales in China, an expectation that Apple wouldn’t meet earnings expectations, and the the lack of any boost in iPhone sales from Apple Intelligence.
wronglebowski (BasicAppleGuy):
Apple has a reserved billboard right across the street from my apartment. Every time it changes I notice, Privacy ad, Sexy product photos, Shot on IPhone ads. Guess what it is now? AI Emoji, a hot dog holding a briefcase.
Tim Cook:
And I think I know from my own personal experience, once you start using the features you can’t imagine not using them anymore. […] I know I get hundreds of emails a day, and the summarization function is so important.
John Gruber:
Apple’s overall sales in China have been trending down for 3 years now. It looks to me like Apple might have peaked there around 2021 or 2022.
Jeff Johnson:
Looking at the 4-quarter moving averages for iPad, iPhone, Mac, and wearables, hardware revenue looks pretty flat over the past 3 years. So-called “services” are the only thing that hasn’t peaked already.
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Apple (via MacRumors):
A Mac laptop with Apple silicon automatically turns on and starts up when you open its lid or connect it to power. With macOS Sequoia 15 or later, you can change this behavior without affecting your ability to use your keyboard or trackpad to turn on your Mac.
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To prevent startup when opening the lid or connecting to power: sudo nvram BootPreference=%00
To prevent startup only when opening the lid: sudo nvram BootPreference=%01
To prevent startup only when connecting to power: sudo nvram BootPreference=%02
This makes it possible to clean the keyboard with the Mac off and to prevent battery drain due to Power Nap by keeping it off instead of asleep. You can still power on the Mac by pressing the power/Touch ID key.
Dave Mark:
Interesting that this requires the Terminal, no setting to change this behavior. Plenty of other examples of this, but not used to seeing an official support document that sends you to Terminal as only path.
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Update (2025-01-31): Zsolt Benke notes that this doesn’t allow cleaning the keyboard because pressing a key will still start up the Mac. However, you can temporarily disable this:
- Press and hold the left Control and Command buttons with right Shift button for a total of 7 seconds.
- Without releasing them, press the Power button and hold together for an additional 7 seconds until your laptop shuts down. The login screen may flash for a second so don’t prematurely release the keys until the machine is off.
- For your next startup, your Mac can only be powered on by using the Power button or closing and opening the lid.
This worked for me, but only if I didn’t close the lid before pressing a key.
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Charlie Monroe:
The first few apps I released had almost no downloads, no users and there was no income from them. They are long forgotten by the world and even by me. Be prepared to have some setbacks, don’t let them discourage you. Start small and build up. Have an idea for an app? Don’t spend a year developing something that might be a flop in the end. Develop the main idea and let it grow based on feedback and some roadmap.
However, don’t “underdevelop” either. The app must not crash, it mustn’t be buggy, it mustn’t feel like half-done and unfinished. It needs to be working, though some features may be missing. It’s always nice for the customer to get updates that improve things, add new things and the app gradually gets better and better. When users see this, they talk, they recommend the app and you start growing.
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I work 365 days a year. Last year, I worked 366 days (2024 was leap year). I’m not saying that I work 8 hours each day, but even during weekends, holidays, vacation, I need to tend to support emails in the morning for an hour or so and then once more in the afternoon or evening. I cannot just take off and leave for a few days without seeing the consequences and going insane when I get back.
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The unfortunate thing about this is that going through the support emails in my case is something that takes about 2-3 hours a day – which is not enough to hire someone and train them. Not to mention that most of the reports actually need some technical knowledge. So unless I would hire another developer, in the end, the really administrative stuff that someone could do instead of me is a 30-minute-a-day job.
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