You're listening to the Apple Insider Podcast.

Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast, episode 79.

This is Mikey Campbell back from the Dead.

With me today, Neil Hughes. Camel Back from the Dead.

With me today, Neil Hughes, managing editor, Apple Insider.com.

How's it going, Neil?

Hey, Mikey, he's going pretty well.

Awesome.

So big news this week, course apple's fiscal third quarter earnings came out

Beat street estimates of course not not as good as some investors would like, but you know,

40 million iPhones, what do you think?

I mean, sales are still declining and that is a point of concern on Wall Street where all they're

interested in is growth.

But the share price went up after earnings by about six bucks because analysts were expecting

results to be worse than they were they came in a little bit better there was

some good and some bad I I mean obviously you still have iPhone sales declining

but one of the strong points actually is even though iPad sales were down by a little bit

the average selling price increased by like $100 or something.

And they actually saw their revenue increase even though they sold fewer units.

So that is a direct effect of the their revenue increase even though they sold fewer units.

So that is a direct effect of the 9.7 inch iPad pro launching in March.

So you're seeing now that Apple is making a push for more of the premium tablet

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