Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, May 3rd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Apple earnings are out and revenue was down almost everywhere. Boy, AI can't come fast enough for them.

Did you know you can send Bluetooth signals

to satellites in space?

The full Rabbit R1 reviews turned out exactly how we expected.

And of course, the weekend long rate suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So Apple earnings and see if you can detect a pattern here.

Q2 revenue was down 4% year on year. These are all year over year numbers.

Net income down 2% iPhone revenue down 10%,

iPad down 17%. The Wirables Home and Accessories category down 10%. China revenue

down 8.1%. the loan bright spots MAC revenue was up 4% and

revenue from services was up 14% to 23.9 billion in all-time record.

The stock jumped 5% overnight after Apple announced a $110 billion share buyback.

It's the largest share buyback ever.

But you get the message here, right?

This was the quarter that Apple's various revenue lines all hit the ceilings.

It looked like they were headed for them.

The numbers were slightly better than analysts expected.

And Apple is ever so slightly signaling that it thinks this quarter

could see revenue growth. Still quoting the journal. Apple is struggling on a

number of fronts. The company's single most important business, the iPhone has faced sluggish growth.

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