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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's car s toboi joined by Shara tip cancino rider and char we're talking about apples earnings report came out for the holiday quarter a lot of big numbers to talk about but also a very special announcement snuck in there tell us about that first yeah we were all absolutely surprised Tim Cook today said that the Apple watch is going to start shipping in April previously they only said early 2015 and people had been really curious whether was going to be march april februari even typically they don't make these kind of announcements on earnings call so it was a really big surprise absolutely well good have something concrete yeah and the call itself I mean their earnings themselves they really kind of blue expectations out of the water didn't they yeah it was a huge quarter for Apple it was the biggest in their entire history yeah iphone was just far and away a huge huge huge product for them this quarter and we're thinking the iphone 6 itself the new 1i said iphone 6 for sure Tim Cook said that all of the iphones actually sold well including you know the older 5s 5c but it's really the iphone 6 and that smaller iPhone 6 that really push them over the top here and if the sales here in the US that's driving it internationally do we know a breakdown yeah the US is still the main market for the iPhone but China is really closing in on them overall they sold 70 4.5 million iPhones switches you know about 8 million more that analysts were expecting Wow are there any products that are not doing quite as well as the iphone yeah we still have kind of the iPad as the laggard it's been doing pretty poorly for the past four quarters and Tim Cook basically said that you know they see longer-term opportunities for this it's going to keep growing but you know eventually when the next couple quarters are still going to be kind of down quarters for the ipad but a lot of that is just the replacement cycle people just don't get new pipe as or tablet yeah you know that they were saying that it's kind of in between a computer and a phone the fact that i watch do know any more details about pricing specific ship dates yeah we know nothing i know i mean they haven't released any details beyond what they talked about at the event in September you know so it still starts at 349 probably goes up a lot from there we talked a little bit you know they said they have a lot of developers on board and you know if you have been public and talking about what they're doing but so far still not a lot of details we're waiting for that information we just know that April will be a big month another big month for Apple yeah for sure shower tip kid I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop