Apple owes its second-best quarter ever to services

Apple on Tuesday evening released financial results for the fiscal 2019 quarter, which officially ended on December 29, 2018. In addition to significant decline sales of apple phones, there was also talk of services that are exactly the opposite.

The numbers tell exactly what Apple is focusing on most of all. Of course, these are the services that occupy the highest ranks of importance in the list of priorities of the apple company, and it shows. There are already 1,4 billion active Apple devices in the world, but 100 million of them were added in 2018 alone.

The App Store, Apple Music, iCloud, Apple Care, Apple Pay and other services earned Apple approximately $10,9 billion, which is $1,8 billion more than in 2017 and a percentage increase of 19%. Apple Music has already reached 50 million subscribers, but 10 million of those users started using the service in the last six months, which is a huge success. However, Spotify still has around 90 million active subscribers and thus holds the imaginary lead.

Apple News now has approximately 85 million users and approximately 1,8 billion payments have been made through Apple Pay. These numbers will continue to grow, according to Cook, as Apple tries to get the service to more destinations and also works with individual cities on what other ways users could use it. The most talked about is public transport, where people could pay through Apple Pay.