You're listening to the Apple Insider Podcast.

Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast.

Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. I'm Vicker and joining me is William Gallagher.

Hello. The ever reliable, the ever happy, William Gallagher.

Oh, that sounds nice. I'll take that. That was called unacceptable earlier today by a producer, but that's another story. Hi.

You should be happy. It was a searing dramatic comment about my searing political drama, so I was not in any way unhappy but there you go

it's not so it sounds searing it was it was well I want to I want to tell you there's a

lot of negativity available right there's

negativity everywhere from the rejection that you experienced from the verbal

abuse that I receive sometimes for doing this podcast sometimes for other

things there's there's tons of negativity around and I want to remind

you and of course our friends out there listening as well that there are a lot of things to be positive about and we're going to talk about some of them.

Oh, okay, I could do with that. Let's have some of that then.

Yeah. What have you got?

Well, first of all, if you like the iPhone and you like Apple and you want to see them be profitable,

then perhaps you can draw some pleasure from this.

Apple is seeing double-digit iPhone sales growth in China.

Yes.

Now this is meaningful because of course China is one of the most populous countries on the

planet and so double digit sales percentages in China mean

quite a large number of people. Oh, it's good points. Yes, it does. Right? I actually

hesitated when you said this because whenever somebody

...