REVENUE FORECAST: Analysts expect $63.0 billion, according to FactSet, compared with $62.9 billion a year earlier. To encourage trial and device sales, Apple is offering a free subscription to customers who buy an iPhone, iPad or Mac. Not Fade Away: After getting hit by a major downturn of iPhone sales in China to start fiscal 2019, Apple made moves to stabilize the business. Lively Up Yourself: For growth in recent quarters, Apple has focused on increasing software and services sales across the 900 million iPhones in use world-wide. The resumption of those approvals has set the company up for a strong uptick in services sales for the September quarter, analysts say.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 30, 2019 09:33 UTC