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Aug 04 Apple Apps

Apple's Services Business Is Making Up For Some Hardware Struggles

In its third-quarter earnings report on Thursday, Apple reported a decline in sales for its most iconic hardware products.
Offsetting the hardware softness is accelerating growth in the services business, a major profit driver.
The services division’s growth was “better than we expected,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said.

Instagram’s new Threads app for iOS is out now with its first update, bringing a handful of small changes and tweaks, added features and various bug fixes, including support for the recently released iOS 17 public beta.
Most changes are smaller quality-of-life improvements, not major features like the addition of a chronological feed, an edit button, multiple account support or the ability to search posts, among other promised changes Instagram head Adam Mosseri has said were in the works.

Apple on Tuesday launched an online store on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app in China.
Users can purchase the full line of Apple products, including the latest iPhone 14 range, through the Mini Program, Tencent said in a statement.
WeChat is China’s biggest messaging platform with over 1.2 billion users and opens another retail channel for Apple.

The head of Google’s map division said in an email Tuesday that the company is cutting jobs at Waze.
Google has been merging Waze with its own mapping products since late last year.
The company hopes to “create a more scalable and optimized Waze Ads product,” the email said.

It looks like YouTube’s 1080p Premium video quality is finally rolling out to Android devices for paying subscribers, after a brief period of iOS exclusivity.
Some Android phone and Google TV users who pay for YouTube Premium are now reporting that they can see the 1080p Premium video option.
Right now the feature doesn’t appear to be widespread, and reportedly the users don’t see the option all the time.