Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, January 29th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough

today. Apple Earnings. Google is testing another chat app. We know that Uncle Sam is wary of

Huawei, but did you know he also doesn't trust DJI? Lyme is testing AI scooters and

the new app that will let you skip the ads without screwing over publishers.

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

Apple earnings y'all.

Apple reported Q1 revenue of $91.8 billion up 9% year over year, of which $79.1 billion came from products and 12.7 billion came from services.

Services were up 19% year over year.

The company also had net income of $22.2 billion and is estimating a range of between 63 and $67 billion for

Q2 revenue. A bigger range than it normally forecasts. We'll come back to that in a second.

But let's drill down more first.

Apple reported $10 billion in revenue from its

wearable and home accessories bucket

where it puts the likes of air pods and Apple Watch.

That category was up 37% year over year and notable that that means the

category generated more revenue than the MAC category for the first time ever. The MAC category

was down 3% year over year.

Also notable that Apple reached 1.5 billion active devices, up from 1.4 billion a year ago.

As Benedict Evans noted on Twitter, that means that Apple now has more

active devices in use than Microsoft does, mainly because of iPhones of course. Breaking

out iPhone sales, Apple reported 56 billion dollars worth up 8% year over

year on the earnings call. Tim Cook said that the three newest iPhones were the

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