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Apple posted their best second quarter financials yesterday, posting some $61.1 billion in revenue with $13.8 billion in profit.  Apple CEO Tim Cook indicated that it was the best March quarter the company had ever enjoyed with strong sales across all of the major product lines.

In all, the company sold 52.2 million iPhones, up 1.5 million units when you compare it to Q2 2017.  iPads were up slightly at 9.1 million units, 180,000 units over last year.  As for Macs, they lost a bit of ground over last year.  4.07 million units were sold this quarter, slightly less than the 4.19 million sold in 2017.

Apple Pay has had another wave of banks here in the United States, adding 26 banks and financial institutions to the list of supporting institutions.  The additions are mostly smaller regional banks as Apple continues to push the adoption of the tap-to-pay service both here in the United States as well as in Europe and Asia.

For the US, here are a few of the new financial institutions that now support Apple Pay:

• Canandaigua National Bank & Trust
• Chesapeake Bank
• Citizens National Bank (TX)
• Classic Bank
• Dowell Federal Credit Union
• Embarrass Vermillion Federal Credit Union

The team over at 9to5Mac have put together a full list of the banks supported.

Good news this morning for those of you who have the Honor 7X here in the United States.  The Huawei sub-brand has released its Android Oreo update for the midrange phone with a select roll out already underway.  The update comes as EMUI 8.0, Huawei’s flavor of Android and it is more-or-less the same build that is on the Mate 10 and P20 lineup of phones.

The update brings all the normal goodness that Oreo brings but also includes a lot of Huawei/Honor features such as Face Lock (similar to that on the iPhone X), a floating dock, improved settings layout and other features.  It also comes with the April Android Security Update Patch.

There was an exciting new announcement today from Google Cloud Platform and Fitbit.  The fitness wearable company is not only moving to GCP as their preferred cloud platform provider, but they will also be taking advantage of the Google Cloud Healthcare API.

The Cloud Healthcare API… “provide an interoperability solution that enables their users to collaborate on care with their own healthcare providers.”  This could be a big deal as there have been some 76 million Fitbit devices sold and some 25 million active users.