Techmeme: Apple's Q4 beats estimates with $1.42 EPS on $42.1B revenue; sold 39.3M iPhones, 12.3M iPads, 5.5M Macs (Josh Lowensohn/The Verge)

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October 20, 2014, 6:25 PM

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Apple:

Strong iPhone, Mac & App Store Sales Drive Record September Quarter Revenue & Earnings — CUPERTINO, California—October 20, 2014—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $42.1 billion …

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple's Q4 beats estimates with $1.42 EPS on $42.1B revenue; sold 39.3M iPhones, 12.3M iPads, 5.5M Macs — Apple Q4 2014 earnings: revenue surges on huge iPhone 6 sales — Apple, once the darling of Wall Street with a ballooning stock price, has disappointed investors in recent quarters with slowdown on its growth.

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, Mercury News, eWeek, CNET, Fortune, MacNN and Electronista. Tweets: @marshallk

AppleInsider:

Apple to introduce new financial reporting in Q1 '15; Watch to be folded into “other” category

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, MacRumors and VentureBeat

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Apple Mac market share at its highest since 1995; sales up 46% in emerging markets

More: CNET, MacRumors and Re/code. Tweets: @asymco

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iPads fall for third consecutive quarter, iPhones and Macs boost Apple's Q4 [Updated]

More: AppleInsider, Engadget and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @ampressman and @asymco

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Check Out Gmail 5.0 For Android And Google's Plan To Handle All Your Email Accounts In One App — Google's been updating apps left and right recently to fall in line with its new material design philosophy, and the results have been impressive. There are a few apps it appears Google's saving …

More: Digital Trends, Android Central, CNET, ReadWrite, BGR, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, GadgeTell, The Daily Dot, The Verge, Phandroid, Droid Life, PC World, VentureBreak, Android and Me, Gigaom, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, Electronista and 9to5Google

Tweets: @mj291278 and @s0h4m

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 8.1 with Apple Pay, iCloud Photo Library, SMS Relay & Instant Hotspot, more — Just as Apple announced at its iPad & Mac event last Thursday, iOS 8.1 is now publicly available with new features including Apple Pay, iCloud Photo Library, and additional Continuity features.

More: Gigaom, MacRumors, Uber Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ABC News, CNET, Gizmodo, Associated Press, ABC News, ZDNet, ReadWrite, iMore, Ars Technica, MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Verge and TUAW

Tweets: @jonyivegoogling, @benedictevans, @mikeisaac and @ryan

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Updates ‘Apple Store’ iOS App With Apple Pay Support — Apple today updated its Apple Store app, adding support for Apple Pay, which was enabled with the recently released iOS 8.1 update. Following the update, users will be able to use their iPhones to make purchases in the Apple Store app …

More: 9to5Mac, Tech Trader Daily, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN and iDownloadBlog.com

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Eddy Cue expects biggest share of early Apple Pay transactions to be in-app purchases, product “should be huge” — Apple Pay Rolls Out, With Holes in System — IPhone Payment System Arrives Monday; Ubiquitous Use Isn't Assured Immediately

More: Businessweek, CNET, The Register and Upstart Business Journal

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple to require iOS apps and updates to use iOS 8 SDK and include 64-bit support from February 2015

More: iMore, CNET, AppleInsider and App Advice

Percy / GreatFire.org:

Report: Chinese authorities conduct “man in the middle” attack on iCloud.com users to harvest their data — China collecting Apple iCloud data; attack coincides with launch of new iPhone — After previous attacks on Github, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, the Chinese authorities …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple pushing to cut the price of Beats Music subscriptions to $5 per month — Spotify Lowers Its Music Prices, Using a Family Plan. Apple Wants to Go Lower. — Apple thinks streaming music should cost less. Spotify agrees. — Spotify is effectively offering a price cut …

More: AppleInsider, PandoDaily, Cult of Mac, BGR, New York Times, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, TechSpot, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, Android Police, PadGadget and AppleTell. Tweets: @joshconstine

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Spotify announces family plans: $14.99 for two users, $19.99 for three, $24.99 for four and $29.99 for five

More: Spotify Press, Spotify Blog, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNET, Guardian, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, MacStories, Phandroid, PC World, RAIN News, Digital Trends, Consumerist, SlashGear, WMPoweruser, iMore, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, MacRumors and Gigaom. Tweets: @thenextweb. See also Mediagazer

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Facebook Sues Lawyers of Discredited “Co-Founder” Paul Ceglia — Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sued a handful of lawyers who represented Paul Ceglia in a 2010 case in which Ceglia claimed he was entitled to 84 percent ownership of the social network. — Ceglia's claim was dismissed earlier …

More: New York Times, CNET, ABC News and The Next Web. Tweets: @arrington

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

Marc Andreessen on the evolution of Silicon Valley and technology's impact on the economy — Marc Andreessen on Why Optimism Is Always the Safest Bet — The Netscape creator turned Silicon Valley sage on why optimism is always the safest bet. — It's not hard to coax an opinion out of Marc Andreessen.

More: bizjournals, Valleywag, Business Insider, Quartz, SiliconBeat, StrictlyVC and The Equity Kicker

Tweets: @stevesi, @gis_ufm, @kept_simple, @jeffjarvis, @kevinroose, @jfruh, @longform, @felixsalmon and @ajs

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

IBM stock drops over 6% after it misses earnings estimates, abandons 2015 earnings forecast — IBM Abandons Long-Promised 2015 Profit Target — IBM abandoned a long-promised plan to deliver $20 a share in profits by 2015 after suffering a significant slowdown in spending by its clients …

More: eWeek, Business Wire, Tech Trader Daily, SiliconBeat, New York Times, bizjournals, CNBC, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider. Tweets: @levie

Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:

Amazon closes multi-year digital and print deal with CBS's Simon & Schuster, one of Big Five publishers — Amazon Closes Multi-Year Deal With Simon & Schuster, The Other Big Five Publisher It Was In E-Book Pricing Negotiations With — Amazon has inked a multi-year deal with Simon & Schuster …

More: New York Times and GeekWire. See also Mediagazer

Chris Velazco / Engadget:

Amazon Kindle Voyage review: The best e-reader is also the priciest — When Amazon introduced an updated version of its flagship Kindle Paperwhite last year, it took the easy way out — after all, tweaked internals, improved software and slightly better lighting do not a thrilling e-reader make.

More: New York Times, Re/code, The Verge, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, SlashGear, GeekWire, Laptop Mag, Gigaom, PC Magazine, TechCrunch and The Next Web

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