Apple Sold a Ton of iPhone 17s and Mac Minis - DTNS 5260
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, May 1st, 26. |
| 0:09.4 | We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand. |
| 0:14.1 | Today, well, it may be May, but Apple shared its biggest earnings for the month of March ever. |
| 0:19.7 | What? |
| 0:20.3 | Wait a minute. Yeah, that's a big deal. We're going to talk all about it. What? Wait a minute. |
| 0:21.5 | Yeah, that's a big deal. |
| 0:23.2 | We're going to talk all about it. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Jason Howell. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm going to do it now. |
| 0:25.9 | Let's start with what you need to know with the big story. |
| 0:31.1 | Apple announced its best March quarter, as you said, when. |
| 0:34.9 | In company history, revenue up 17% year over year. I'm going to do my |
| 0:40.3 | best to kind of just dance around some brief numbers before we get into the discussion. |
| 0:45.1 | Net income up roughly 19% to around 29.6 billion, which sounds like a lot to me. CFO, Kevin |
| 0:51.8 | Perrek, announced on the call that the iPhone 17 is, quote, the most |
| 0:56.5 | popular lineup in Apple's history. I imagine that's one of those things that they say every year. |
| 1:01.9 | It's kind of like if it wasn't, there would be, you know, I'd be a little concerned about that. |
| 1:06.1 | But revenue of 22% year over year, and yet iPhone sales slightly missed on expectations. |
| 1:13.6 | CEO Tim Cook told Reuters that demand for the phone was off the charts, his words, |
| 1:19.6 | even as chip shortages kept the company from fully meeting demand. |
| 1:24.4 | So essentially that just means they could have sold a whole lot more if they |
| 1:29.0 | weren't faced with this constrained supply that they find themselves in. There was a lot of demand, |
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