Josh lipton talked to tim cook last night after the earnings print and joins us this morning. Josh reporter carl, investors want to see iphone trends improving. Thats what they got with the latest report. Iphone revenue dropped 9 in q4, but revenue dropped 12 in q3. Ceo tim cook telling me for iphone specifically we improved year over year performance even more compared to last quarter, and significantly compared to the first part of the year, and we are off to a really good start with the iphone 11, iphone 11 proand iphone pro11 max i asked about tariffs and trade tensions cook tells me he did not ship more iphones here to the u. S. To try to get ahead of potential new tariffs in december, nor does he plan to, as analysts know that means recent positive supply chain data points represent real demand. More broadly, cook is optimistic a trade deal gets done, saying i am still optimistic in the end there will be agreement between the countries where it will not solve everything, it will
Bitcoin billionaires. I know. He got really sick this morning and just absolutely couldnt make it so we will talk a little bit about his book just for those of you who are wondering. [applause] we are going to leadtime at the end for audience q a as well so please be thinking about your questions for mike. We would love to have an interactive conversation with you. Let me just start, actually im going to start by saying a couple of words about bens book before we dive into mike in his book. For any of you that havent checked it out yet its called bitcoin billionaires and its the story of the winkle lost twins. [applause] you may remember them from the facebook story. They were the two brothers at harvard who actually hired Mark Zuckerberg to help them build out their social Network Platform at harvard. Mark was a Software Developer and coder and engineer who helped them build their platform but then he actually ended up spending away from them and creating his own platform so they made
More than big will be jumping on a socalled mike. And last but not least will be heading to total to make that call tell giants what i think so wish was all the wonders of the capitol and you know me. As you can tell the law to large and out once again. What takes us to west africa where the baath weight is one of the highest in the world this growing young population could drag the local economy i guess thats what many people think but how many children can cause a financial bottom for 5 and a Serious Health problems for women having several pregnancies in a row but Family Planning and contraceptive methods a state of war subject in many of the conservative with the majority countries of the region however in fact a goal inflight see only be changing a growing number of young couples want to take control over how many children they will have and when every day in going side goes door to door visiting family some have the kind neighbor who she says. The district godmother or auntie as
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And you can get all the latest on our website. That is bbc. Co. Uk news. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Communist china at 70. As the peoples republic marks this significant milestone, we look at the challenges faced by the countrys carmakers. Wework pulls it share sale. One of the worlds most hotly anticipated ipos is dropped. Hello and welcome to Asia Business report. We start with china, because the country marks a major milestone today. It is 70 years since the communist party found that the peoples republic. There has been significant turmoil, and also vast progress, in the decades since then. The economy began to boom in the 19805 the economy began to boom in the 1980s after opening up. By one measure both the world bank and the imf rate china is the worlds biggest economy. The vast country has been the biggest contributor to Global Growth in recent years, dominating key markets including autos. But as robin brant reports from shanghai, the tide has