Leave the iPhone in your pocket... Apple is now (almost) a Wearables company. iPhone sales have slipped for a full year, but sales in Apple's AirPods and Apple Watch division surged over 50% for the 2nd straight quarter. That biz brings in as much revenue as all of Starbucks, so CEO Tim Cook's going extra venti with new $249 noise-canceling AirPod Pros. Plus, Apple TV+ launched Friday, adding starpower to its Services division.
It took more than 280 characters... CEO Jack Dorsey needed 11 tweets to explain that Twitter has banned political ads. It still lets world leaders tweet free of fact-checking, but it won't accept cash from them to boost their reach to millions of Twitter users (Jack says it's too risky to society). Facebook still lets politicians push their messages to undecided potential voters — and it expects just 0.5% of its total revenue for 2020 to come from political ads,