ApplePay FAQ
From MacWorld, here’s everything you need to know about Apple Pay, including how to use it on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and what stores and apps accept it. Read More
How To Shoot on iPhone
New mini-site from Apple, “How To Shoot on iPhone” on iPhone photography and how to get your best shots. Learn the best techniques for shooting a great portrait, close-up, pano’s, etc.
Apple Acquires Workflow
In an interesting and uncharacteristic move, Apple has purchased mobile app Workflow for an undisclosed sum. It’s an iOS utility that allows you create shortcuts to peform a string of actions and can be triggered by a Widget, a Home Screen icon, share sheet button, or even from the Apple Watch.
For now, Apple is not only going to keep Workflow in the App Store, but the normally $2.99 app will be free.
Warren Buffet Loading Up On APPL
Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, bought 57.4 million shares of the iPhone maker in 2016.
Warren Buffett nearly quadrupled his stake in Apple (symbol AAPL, $135.51) during the last three months of 2016, according to the latest 13-F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B. The big investment is already looking like a shrewd move. Apple shares are setting record highs this week and are up 17% so far in 2017. With a market capitalization, or share price times total shares outstanding, of $711 billion, Apple is the most valuable public company in the world. (Prices as of February 15.)
If it’s good enough for Warren Buffet, it should be good enough for all the market wonks out there predicting Apple’s doom for the last 15 years.
Apple 4th Quarter Earnings
Apple on Tuesday posted quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations, boosted by strong iPhone growth in China.
Apple reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $1.96 per share on sales of $51.5 billion.
Analysts expected the tech giant to report earnings of $1.88 per share on $51.11 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters. Shares were flat in up-and-down after-hours trading following the results.
Mac vs. PC in 3 charts
via Fortune.com
Mac sales are up. PC sales are down. And in that shrinking market, Apple takes the lion’s share of the profits. Tim Cook reported Tuesday that Mac sales grew almost 18% year over year in the June quarter while the rest of the PC market shrank by nearly 2%.
And the Mac is the most profitable PC on the market. By far. “Indeed,” writes Asymco‘s Horace Dediu, “it’s more profitable than all the other vendors put together.”