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what's going on brian tong here and welcome to the Apple bite for everything good and bad inside the rule of Apple it's all about the money this week and the big a reported their earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2015 now let's talk big numbers with Apple revenue at forty nine point six billion dollars and a net quarterly profit of ten point seven billion the standouts Apple sold forty seven and a half million iPhones up from just over thirty five million a year earlier 4.8 million Macs were sold compared to four point four last year but iPad sales keep dropping falling to ten point nine million compared to just over 13 million last year now Greater China revenues were up one hundred and twelve percent compared to US growth of thirty three percent so you can easily see where there's money to be made internationally but what about the Apple watch well Tim Cook said the Apple watch exceeded expectations but gave no specific sale numbers he also said sales of the Apple watch for its first nine weeks were higher than the original iPhone or iPad when they first launched now the Apple watch is grouped in with others that includes the Apple TV Beats headphones and the iPod and makes up only 5% of Apple's total revenue now that category saw a bump up from 1.7 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2015 the 2.6 billion in this third fiscal quarter now based on a rough estimate of around 4 million units sold research firm strategic analytics says the Apple watch created a dramatic shift in the SmartWatch market size with Apple claiming roughly 75% of the global market share in the second quarter of 2015 now who's feeling the most pain from Apple's emergence it's Samsung get this they held 73 points 6 percent of the market share until the Apple watch went on sale and now only holds seven point five percent of the market according to these estimates ouch and in more Apple watch love or propaganda depending on how you look at it according to research firm wrist Lee overall customer satisfaction with Apple Smart Watch is at 97 percent they pulled from a group of over 1,000 respondents and it's the highest satisfaction rating for any first-gen product from Apple see the original iPhone received a 92% rating and the original iPad was 91% now here's the catch 66% of respondents were very satisfied and 31% were somewhat satisfied which brought them to their number of 97 percent overall satisfied so maybe apples 99% iPhone TV ad included people who loved their iPhone and people who somewhat loved their iPhone alright in software updates developers are also getting access to the fourth betas for iOS 9 al Capitan and watch OS 2 as well Apple has also released the second public betas for iOS 9 and OS 10 El Capitan and for those of you complaining to me that it doesn't work with everything is because it's called a beta all right so the quick bytes and after taking Apple's recent hardware sales into consideration iOS unit sales are now matching Windows PC sales Android unit sales surpassed the Windows PC sales in 2012 but Apple fans can rejoice you are now part of the club also we've talked about future iPhones removing the home button completely and allowing the touchscreen panel to eventually detect fingerprints well we're getting closer after security firms so Novation announced their new technology that allows ultrasonic fingerprint sensors to be embedded under Corning Gorilla Glass the sensors would be bonded directly to the display and this could be the first step in paving the way for future iPhones without home buttons now so Novation claims their 3d scanning tech can remain accurate in all situations even if a finger is oily dirty or moist and I usually don't like saying the word moist except when it's crucial to a story and you know what I'm not gonna forget you all let's get to our feedback of the week we asked to hear from you the Apple by ders after we did our poll of our own to see if in fact 99% of iPhone users do indeed love their iPhones so here's what you wrote us Chris Montana says I love my jailbroken iPhone smiles Porsche for life says I love my iPhone because it just works on email mano Reath Arun writes I love my iPhone because it makes the beautiful girls attracted to me cool houssam wanted to let me know that iphones make me feel warm in my pants and Ryan Kim says that husband got rekt I love my iPhone almost more than my husband yeah you did alright that's gonna do for this we show you can always email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong and I'll respond when there's a break in my judo class thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple