Dennis Sellers

<p>Pad sales continued to shrink in Apple's fiscal 2017 second quarter that ended April 1, 2017, but sales came in ahead of Apple's expectations, according to Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri in a press conference with analysts.</p>

<p>Apple Watch sales nearly doubled year-over-year in Apple's fiscal 2017 second quarter that ended April 1, 2017. CEO Tim Cook says it’s “the best-selling and most-loved smart watch around the world,” though the company won't report unit sales.</p>

<p>Apple’s Services business -- which includes, among other things, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud and iTunes — saw its highest revenue ever for a 13-week quarter in Apple's fiscal 2017 second quarter that ended April 1, 2017.</p>

<p>Mac sales are up year-over-year, while iPhone sales are down in units but up in revenue for Apple’s fiscal 2017 second quarter that ended April 1, 2017.</p>

<p>Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2017 second quarter that ended April 1, 2017. The tech giant posted quarterly revenue of $52.9 billion and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.10. </p>

<p>Another day, another lawsuit. Well, at least an extension of an existing lawsuit. As noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/02/parkervision-extends-rf-tech-patent-lawsuit-against-apple-to-iphone-7-in-us-germany" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a>, a company called ParkerVision, who has sued Apple for patent infringement, is extending the lawsuit.</p>

<p>New data from <a href="http://www.vertoanalytics.com/">Verto Analytics</a> finds that Apple continued to grow its user base last quarter. CEO Hannu Verkasalo says the tech giant quietly added three million new users in the last quarter to its overall user base for Apple related web sites, online services, apps, in the U.S. </p>

<p>In a note to clients — as noted by <a target="_blank" href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/02/apple-analyst-barclays-acquisition-media-services-growth/" rel="noopener noreferrer">9to5Mac</a> — Barclays analysts Mark Moskowitz and Daniel Gaide opine that Apple is eyeing a major acquisition of a media company. They say such move could allow Apple to achieve its services growth goals that could otherwise slow alongside iPhone sales.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.globalpaymentsinc.com/en-us" rel="noopener noreferrer">Global Payments</a>, a worldwide provider of payment technology services, is now offering merchants in Taiwan the ability to accept credit and debit card payments via Apple Pay. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with more than 8,500 employees worldwide, the company is a member of the S&P 500 with merchants and partners in 30 countries throughout North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and Brazil.</p>

<p>Apple wants to help you eat healthier. The company has been granted a patent (number 9,640,088) for “electronic tag transmissions of custom-order nutritional information.”</p>

<p>There are a plethora of apps that deal with relaxation, mindfulness and such, but <a target="_blank" href="//www.tmsoft.com/white-noise" rel="noopener noreferrer">White Noise</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tmsoft.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">TMSOFT </a>takes the concept to every imaginable requirement that you may have and them some. </p>

<p>You can turn off Back to My Mac whenever you want (<a href="https://steven-sande.squarespace.com/config/">here’s how you set it up</a>). When you do, you'll remove that Mac or AirPort base station from your Back to My Mac network.</p>

<p>On a regular basis, <em>Apple World Today</em> posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks.</p>

<p>Customer satisfaction with Apple’s AirPods is extremely high. Ninety-eight percent of owners of the device said in a <a target="_blank" href="https://techpinions.com/apples-airpods-a-consumer-success-with-98-customer-satisfaction/49880" rel="noopener noreferrer">survey</a> by Creative Strategies and Experience that they really, really liked the device.</p>

<p>In a note to clients -- as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/01/apples-siri-based-echo-competitor-to-carry-premium-price-feature-high-end-audio-with-1-woofer-7-tweeters" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider </a>— KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says there's a 50/50 chance Apple will announce its Siri-based competitor to Amazon Echo at next month’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, June 5-9.</p>