Apple released its third-quarter earnings on Thursday and reported $19.6 billion in services revenue, marking a 12% year-over-year increase, but narrowly falling short of Wall Street predictions of about $19.7 billion. The tech giant’s third-quarter services revenue also falls short of last quarter’s record-breaking $19.8 billion and is also down from the 27% growth it reported during the same time period last year.
The category, which includes businesses like the App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, cloud services and others — also grew to reach 860 million paid subscriptions on Apple’s platform, which is up from the 825 million it reported in its previous quarter. This figure is up more than 160 million in the last 12 months alone, Apple said.
“The record level of performance of our services portfolio during the June quarter reflects the strength of our ecosystem on many fronts,” Apple CFO Luca Maestri said on the …
