Apple Says Its Software Business is Booming

Apple on Wednesday said that its services business, which includes software for things like news, gaming, apps, music and video, had its best ever year in 2019. From a report: "2019 was the biggest year for Services in Apple's history. We introduced several exciting new experiences for our customers, all while setting the standard for user privacy and security," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services in a statement. In an effort to showcase its growth to investors, Apple released a slew of engagement numbers for several of its services products. It says: Apple News has over 100 million monthly active users in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada. Apple Music now offers over 60 million songs in 115 countries. Apple Podcasts offers over 800,000 shows in 155 countries. Apple Card and Apple Pay are accepted in more than 150 stadiums, ballparks, arenas and entertainment venues.

Services

[mccalli]

Says its services business is booming. Not software, unless there's been a sudden worldwide trend for Logic Pro X that I'm not currently aware of...

Re:

[timeOday]

Yeah were did the headline writer get that? Apple News is not about the browser or whatever you use to read it with. It's about the content.

Try First Year...

[Luthair]

The only subscription service they offered prior to this year was Apple music, so one wouldn't really expect that adding news, gaming and video would result in less revenue unless their music subs were in free fall.

They had other services

[SuperKendall]

The only subscription service they offered prior to this year was Apple music

iCloud storage is subscription.

iTunes Match is subscription and was around well before Apple Music.

Although it's not exactly the same, even the apple Deve account is a subscription service...

Apple again

[Dunbal]

Because iDontgiveafuck

Re: Apple again

[DonkeyG5]

Apple success hurt your feelings?

Re:

[Dunbal]

I guess you don't understand what "I don't give a fuck" means. It doesn't mean it hurts my feelings. It means I'm sick of all this spam that has absolutely nothing to do with "news for nerds. Stuff that matters."

Re: Apple again

[DonkeyG5]

And yet here you are again telling us how little you care about this.

Re:

[Dunbal]

No I'm just responding to a retard. I have a soft spot for trolls and I can't help feeding them.

It made my iPhone go boom.

[wonkavader]

FOUR buggy updates in the past year?

I've disliked Apple designs and software since the first iPhone, but at least they used to have good quality control.

Exciting

[war4peace]

Please ban this word.

Anyone?

[mschaffer]

Does anyone actually believe this tripe. This is as fake as Trump's business acumen.

“Over 800,000 shows”

[93 Escort Wagon]

It’s a podcasts app. Podcasts are based on RSS, so what’s available is completely independent of the app.

Any podcasts app could make this same claim.

Apple music sucks

[Smonster]

I wish i could ban the Apple music from Siri and the Music app. I don't want it and it makes searching for my own preloaded content annoying. Which I think is their entire goal, annoy me into buying something I don't want.