trillion<\/em> this week. The company’s stock rose after their Q2 financial report delivered a better than expected rise in earnings.<\/p>\nTaking in a crazy US$55.3b in revenue for the quarter the company eclipsed it’s respective prior quarter the year before by 17% and with the holiday season ahead looks to go into the new year with even greater return.<\/p>\n
\nIn other Apple news, and a reason why their profits will only continue to grow higher, the company announced its popular App Store affiliate program will be discontinued.<\/p>\n
The program which offers a 2.5% commission on referrals to both iOS and macOS app purchases has been a source of revenue for many Apple orientated publications, some of which such as TouchArcade, are now fearful of closing.<\/p>\n
Previously Apple reduced the commission percentage, bringing it down from its original 7% last year but has stopped the program entirely citing its own editorial staff as being a better purveyor of available apps.<\/p>\n
An affiliate program remains in place for Apple Music & Movies.<\/p>\n
\nFoodora has announced that it will be ceasing operation in Australia. The gig-economy staffed food delivery service said only that it’s winding down<\/p>\n
“in response to a shift in focus towards other markets where the company currently sees a higher potential for growth.”<\/p>\n
The bicycle only service is said to have struggled against larger players that provide delivery via any vehicle type and been unsuccessful in market penetration in Australia’s more sparsely planned cities.<\/p>\n
\nAnd lastly, continuing on the local front. A new government report has recommended that mandatory drone registration and competence testing be introduced.<\/p>\n
Similar to the drone use in the US & UK registration would be applicable to anyone flying a drone weighing more than 250g.<\/p>\n
The tests proposed would be tiered and allow you to operate the drone at higher speeds and distances based on your level of competency. Again, similar to systems already in place in other countries.<\/p>\n
Outro<\/h2>\n
And that’s it for another week!<\/p>\n
Be sure to like, love, subscribe and share however you’re listening or viewing this episode. The more eyeballs and ears we have on it the more content we can create!<\/p>\n
On the website this week is our full review of the incredible NVIDIA Shield TV. Inside that you’ll also find our new hands-on video show called “Unedited” where we take a raw unedited look at a product ahead of its final review. Normally available exclusively to Patreons everyone’s getting a sneak peak with the Shield so don’t miss out!<\/p>\n
Have a great week and bye for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The week that was (TWTW) takes a look back at the week’s most prominent tech stories from around…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Apple hits a trillion but acts like a dick in \u201cThe Week That Was\u201d July 29th - August 4th, 2018","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1368],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}