Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, October 26,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. Meta- Earnings from yesterday.

Apple seems to be planning a complete revamp of the AirPods lineup.

Spotify plans major changes to how it does royalties, X rolls out video and audio

calls, and a look at how these new gesture controls work on the

Apple Watch. Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

Yesterday afternoon, Meta reported Q3 revenue was up 23% year over year to 34.15 billion

dollars. Net income was up 164% year over year to 11.58 billion dollars and the

family of apps daily active people metric was up seven percent to three point

one four billion people at least for September of 2023.

Investors seem to be a bit mixed about this.

Meta's shares were trading ever so slightly down in pre-market trading this morning.

Maybe because this little detail has to be mentioned,

Meta's reality labs, where all of the VR and Metiverse work lives,

reported Q3 revenue down 26% to $210 million versus almost $300 million which was estimated and operating losses

were up 2% to 3.74 billion dollars versus a 3.9 billion dollar estimate.

So even if Zuck doesn't shout about the Meta

all the time anymore, Meta is still investing heavily there.

One more little nugget. On the conference call, Mark Zuckerberg said that

Threads has hit, quote, just under a hundred million monthly users since

Instagram released the app in early July, quoting the

Verge. I've thought for a long time there should be a

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