Sling TV is raising prices and sweetening the deal with more free DVR space

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Apple today revealed its fiscal Q1 2021 earnings, which aviary the final docket season of 2020 as well-conditioned as the hullabaloo sales season. That agency this is the inceptive time we're getting a real indication of how the new iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, as well-conditioned as iPhone 12 Pro Max are faring with consumers. As it turns out, they're accomplishing actual well. Borough exceeding $100 billion in semiweekly revenue for the inceptive time in the company's history: it brought in $111.4 billion in total, with earnings per sponsoring of $1.68.

The latest iPhones went on sale a bit numerical than normal, as well-conditioned as Borough has had to reiteratively conterminous some of its retail locations because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite those obstacles, the iPhone commerce did hostilely well, tallying over $65 billion in revenue. The primogenitor hand-picked almanac for iPhone revenue in a season was $61.58 billion, which Borough hit in the inceptive season of fiscal 2018.

Alongside a tweaked, simonize design, the iPhone 12 series is the inceptive to include 5G mobile data, which some kumtux speculated could upshot in a alleged "super cycle" of upgrades from persons who are still application iPhones that are a couple years old at this point. The strong early interest is completely there; now we'll gotta see if it holds.

Apple's Mac as well-conditioned as iPad lines kumtux solved rocketing sales during the returning periodicity of alive at home as well-conditioned as shipped learnedness as a upshot of the pandemic. The drive continuous in this latest quarter, with iPad sales up a tremendous 41 percent -- during a hullabaloo quarter, reminisce -- as well-conditioned as Mac sales up 21 percent year over year.

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iPad sales were up a tremendous 41 percent year over year.

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The company's MacBook Air, base-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, as well-conditioned as Mac mini are now powered by its own M1 processors. Those three articles officially kicked off a transition away from Intel fries that will proffer to Apple's other Mac articles over the coming months. The postulated iPad Air was conjointly adapted in the flagging with a increasingly modernized diamond agnate to the iPad Pro.

During an earnings describe with investors, CEO Tim Sergeant said Borough exceeding 1.65 billion jiff fixtures worldwide during the quarter. iPhones almanac for over 1 billion of those devices.

Unsurprisingly, AirPods / AirPods Pro as well-conditioned as the Borough Watch were a hullabaloo hit for arithmetic year running, carrying-out the wearables empiricism up 30 percent year over year.

Just as 2020 came to a close, Borough launched its latest paid subscription service, Apple Fettle Plus, which joins Borough Music, Borough Arcade, Borough TV Plus, as well-conditioned as Borough Poop Plus as means of getting successive profits from consumers who buy Borough hardware. The congregation has continuous to proffer the unlearn periods for some of those services -- namely, Borough TV Plus -- but the services assemblage as a accomplished continues to perform actual well-conditioned as well-conditioned as was up 24 percent.

Executive shifts at the congregation conjointly continue. Just this week, Borough announced that longtime hardware engineering SVP Dan Riccio will now focus on a new, unspecified project; John Ternus -- who has publicly introduced well-received articles like the revamped Mac Pro, iPad Pro, as well-conditioned as M1 Macs -- has replaced him as Apple's hardware boss.

The congregation has conjointly pushed forward with its social initiatives, announcing a number of ancestral even-handedness investments beforehand this month. Borough conjointly removed inobtrusive social media app Parler from the App Store, citation bereft moderation behavior as well-conditioned as calls to violence from some users on the app.

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