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<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Apple just announced its earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2017 ending December 31, 2017. </p><p>The company beat the street today, reporting the following:</p><ul><li>Earnings Per Share (EPS): $3.36 vs. $3.21 expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate</li><li>Revenue: A record $78.4 billion vs. $77.25 billion expected</li><li>iPhone sales: 78.3 million, beating 77.42 million expected</li><li>Services revenue: $6.91 billion</li><li>Q2 guidance: $2.08 EPS, expected revenue of $53.79 billion</li></ul>

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<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Monday's here, along with a handful of Apple news stories to fill you in on this last Monday of January:</p><ul style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px"><li>iPhone revenues will most likely be up when announced tomorrow during Apple's Q1 2017 Earnings Call tomorrow, thanks to larger than expected sales of the iPhone 7 Plus</li><li>We invite our readers to listen to the Apple Earnings Call live at 2 PM PST tomorrow at this web page: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/investor/earnings-call/" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.apple.com/investor/earnings-call/</a></li><li>A complicated hack that was being used to bring locked iPads and iPhone back to life could be behind this weekend's shutdown of the Activation Lock web page on Apple's site</li><li>Fitbit announces that it will cut about 6% of its workforce as smartwatches cut into its market</li></ul>

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<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">TGIF! We have some fascinating stories about the world of Apple to get your weekend started off right:</p><ul><li>A UK insurance company that offered a discount on Apple Watches in return for customers being more active finds that its app isn't making those customers happy</li><li>One of the hackers caught in connection to a 2014 iCloud data theft was sentenced to jail yesterday</li><li>We tell you what Apple's doing around the globe to help celebrate this weekend's Chinese Lunar New Year festivities</li></ul>

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<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Just three short news stories today to keep you up to date on what's happening in the world of Apple:</p><ul><li>Do you drink enough water? Apple's made a hydration app free as part of the App of the Week promotion</li><li>An update to HBO Go enables support for Apple's TV app and brings single sign-on </li><li>The UK's Ministry of Defence is switching from insecure Samsung phones to iPhone 7s for a secret communications device</li></ul>

<p>Apple's <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-support/id1130498044?mt=8" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support</a> app for iPhone and iPad is a really useful tool to have, giving users instant access to support articles on a variety of topics as well as a way to immediately work with an Apple rep through chat, phone or email. This week, the app was expanded to France, Germany, Spain and the UK, bringing the total number of markets covered by the Support app to 22. </p>

<p>There's a war going on, and it's between the Apple Maps app and Google Maps. Yesterday's update of the <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps-navigation-transit/id585027354?mt=8" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Maps iOS app</a> gave it the lead in the battle with the addition of a new live integration of the Popular Times feature. </p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">We hope you listen to the Apple World Today News Update every day, but if you don't, you should listen in today just to hear AWT's Steve Sande absolutely fumble over a 7-syllable name...twice. </p><ul><li>Facebook is testing ads in Messenger</li><li>Apple files a second lawsuit against Qualcomm, this time in China</li><li>Things are looking up for an Apple manufacturing facility or two in India</li><li>Here's an Apple news story that should have never been published in the first place (and we never did publish it...)</li></ul>

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<p>Have you looked at the <a target="_blank" href="http://apple.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple website</a> today? Many people may not notice a difference, but a pretty drastic change took place in the last 24 hours. The default font for the site is now San Francisco, the same default font used in all current Apple operating systems.</p>

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<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">What happened in the world of Apple today? The company released developer beta versions of all of its operating systems, and we're starting to see what new features will appear in the next few months:</p><ul><li>watchOS 3.2 gains Theater Mode and more powerful third-party Siri requests</li><li>iOS 10.3 will add Find My AirPods and better third-party Siri integration, weather data in Maps, an update to Mail's conversation view, and a whole new file system</li><li>macOS 10.12.4 appears to be getting nothing more than Night Shift, so you can rest soundly after playing games all evening</li><li>tvOS 10.2 gets accelerated scrolling for Siri Remote</li></ul>

<p>The team at game studio Snowman must be ridiculously busy, as they're following up the runaway success of <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/altos-adventure/id950812012?mt=8" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alto's Adventure</a> with a handful of titles that are all under construction right now. The latest announcement is about a joint project with Oslo, Norway-based Agens, with a game that brings the ethereal beauty of Alto's Adventure to an urban environment and skateboarding -- Skate City. </p>