Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, January 28th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Ho-hum! Apple reports its most revenue and profit in history.

You'll soon be able to unlock your iPhone while masked, even without the Apple watch.

The White House is readying a huge executive order on crypto.

The new version of GPT 3 is less error prone and less prone to say bad stuff,

and of course, the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Let's end this week by blazing through Apple earnings.

Oh, you know, they just reported the highest revenue and income in company history.

Apple reported Cuba revenue of $123.9 billion up 11% year over year.

Net income of $34.6 billion up from 28.8 year over year.

Services of $19.5 billion up from 15.8

iPhone sales of $.6 billion dollars.

Interestingly, Mac revenue was up 25% year over year.

Apple says the last six quarters have been the best ever

for the Mac period.

People I guess are liking those new Apple Silicon

Chips, so much so that maybe they're eschewing iPads.

iPad sales were down 14%, though that could be due to supply chain issues. I know I

ordered Penny a new iPad at the end of December and it still hasn't even shipped

but the other products revenue where the Apple watch lives was up 13% year over year.

What blows my mind there is that Apple says two-thirds of all Apple watch sales last quarter were to new users, people new to the product.

Apple also had 785 million paying subscribers globally across all services in Q1 up 27% year over year.

Maybe the biggest headline was that Apple says it now has over 1.8 billion active devices worldwide,

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