Apple revenues rise on strong services business and iPad sales

Apple’s revenue increased 5 per cent in the three months to the end of June, as earnings from its services business and a surge in iPad purchases offset a decline in iPhone sales and a continued slowdown in China.

Shares flipped between small gains and losses in after-hours trading on Thursday. Apple has risen 18 per cent this year and is the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalisation of $3.3 trillion.Drop of The Black Stuff hits the spot for men with sensitive skin More encouraging was Apple’s services business – which includes the App Store, Apple Pay and the TV+ streaming platform – which continued to accelerate, rising to $24.2 billion from $21 billion a year ago.

Apple announced the new features, known as “Apple intelligence”, at its developer conference in June. Research and development expenses rose 8 per cent to $8bn in the quarter. Mr Maestri declined to comment on how much of this was spent on AI, including the infrastructure needed to train and run its own large language models.

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