Beyond Devices Podcast

This week, we once again did our brief news roundup on several topic items, but then we spent the bulk of the time on Apple's fiscal Q1 2016 earnings, which came out earlier this week (and skipped our Question of the Week and Weekly Pick features). Our news roundup covered three items: the FCC's move to open up the cable set-top box market, the disclosure of what are purported to be Google's revenues from Android as part of the Oracle-Google court case, and insights from the earnings of the US wireless carriers. In our discussion of Apple's earnings, we covered the iPhone and guidance for the March quarter, what's going on with iPhone growth and when it's likely to turn around again. We talked about the significant foreign exchange impact Apple has been facing, and the fact that it's been forced to talk about it now that its growth has slowed dramatically. We discussed Apple Watch sales briefly, talked about China and India specifically, and also discussed the iPad, Mac, and the potential for new products i