Apple has just published its financial results for Q2 2017, which covered the period from January 1, 2017 through to April 1, 2017. The company posted revenue of $52.9 billion with a quarterly net profit of $11 billion. Apple sold 8.9 million iPads, 50.8 million iPhones, and 4.2 million Macs during the quarter.
“We are proud to report a strong March quarter, with revenue growth accelerating from the December quarter and continued robust demand for iPhone 7 Plus,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve seen great customer response to both models of the new iPhone 7 (PRODUCT)RED Special Edition and we’re thrilled with the strong momentum of our Services business, with our highest revenue ever for a 13-week quarter. Looking ahead, we are excited to welcome attendees from around the world to our annual Worldwide Developers Conference next month in San Jose.”
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Federico and John interview Jean MacDonald and Grey Osten, the co-founders of App Camp for Girls – an organization that helps middle-school age girls get started with app development.
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One blurry-eyed night in front of my MacBook Pro, I was procrastinating on Product Hunt, or perhaps I was doing research for MacStories — it’s not always easy to tell the difference. In any event, it was almost Christmas and I was finishing up a pile of writing assignments and other tasks before taking some...
Invert from Copenhagen-based Glitchnap stretches the concept of tile flipping games in new directions. The only constants in the game are that each flippable tile has two different colored sides, and the goal is to flip them, so the board is one, uniform color. Glitchnap describes Invert as a 2D Rubik’s cube-like puzzle game, which is apt on many levels.
Invert starts with fairly simple puzzles laid out in a grid with only a few flipped tiles. The challenge is that you can only flip whole rows of tiles at once requiring you to consider the impact on other tiles in the row. As the game progresses, Invert introduces the ability to flip tiles in patterns other than rows. The buttons at the end of each row of tiles indicate the shape of the flip pattern. It’s a small difference that adds complexity because it forces you to consider how each pattern interacts with the others adjacent to it.
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There are a bunch of obscure, but useful Finder shortcuts. I still feel like Cmd+N should create a new folder instead of a new window (creating a new folder is Cmd+Shift+N), but once you get beyond hang-ups you might have like that, there are many useful shortcuts available in Finder that can save you...
Fat And Lazy Hamster For the most part, this is a sticker pack about a fat and lazy hamster doing things, which is okay. But then you see the sticker where the hamster has a human face and a creepy expression. This sticker alone will ruin conversations with everyone. Kawaii Food Party From a...
There are plenty of ways to buy media online whether it’s games, apps, movies, comics, or other media. What’s hard is that there’s never enough time to get to it all. Fortunately, there are excellent apps for finding media and creating lists for later, when you have the time to enjoy it. Pixeldb...
Annotable, an image annotation app from developer Ling Wang, received a major update yesterday. Version 2.0 of the app is all about customization. From the tools that appear when you open the app, to the formatting of text added to an image, Annotable gives you precise control over how you use the app and the look of marked up images, making it my hands-down favorite app for image annotations.
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App Camp for Girls is making a big jump geographically this summer. The camp for middle schoolers who self-identify as female, trans (regardless of identity), or gender non-conforming, was founded in 2013 by Jean MacDonald and Grey Osten in Portland, Oregon to address the gender imbalance in technology professions. Since then, App Camp has started camps in other cities including Seattle and Phoenix, but the debut of a camp in Chicago, Illinois this summer marks the first time a camp has been held east of the Mississippi River.
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