The Wall Street Journal’s Rolfe Winkler and Shira Ovide:

Microsoft is investing in a hot startup that’s trying to weaken Google’s hold over Android.

Chomp, chomp, chomp. Gulp. Beverage slurp. Chomp, chomp, chomp.

Since we’re having fun with dumb things people have said about Apple in light of their record quarterly results reported yesterday, here’s some idiot talking about Apple in the documentary Welcome to Macintosh back in 2006:

I don’t see Apple being able to continue at the pace that it’s going right now.

Oh, crap, that was me. The context of the question was if Jobs ever left the company and my thought at the time in the pre-iPhone days was that Apple’s success was not yet a proven formula. I have obviously changed my opinion since then which I think is something that people who learn from their mistakes do.

Sure, I said something stupid in the only movie I’m ever likely to be in until they make that biopic of Betty White’s lovers, but on the plus side I have an entry in IMDB. So it wasn’t a total loss.

Ben Thompson:

Apple lost more money to currency fluctuations than Google makes in a quarter. And yet it’s Google that is feared,

I really think you could make a better case that Apple doom is like a religion than you can that Apple fandom is.

BusinessWire:

The results were fueled by all-time record revenue from iPhone and Mac sales as well as record performance of the App Store. iPhone unit sales of 74.5 million also set a new record.

iPad sales were down again but, man, that’s a lot of iPhones. #analysis

Added: Benedict Evans shows how doomed Apple is in China.

Leah Yamshon writing for Macworld:

USA Technologies announced on Tuesday that the company has added Apple Pay support to roughly 200,000 of its self-serve kiosks, including coffee brewers, laundry equipment, vending machines, parking pay stations, and other self-serve appliances and terminals.

I’m glad to hear this because to date my only use of Apple Pay has been at the McDonald’s drive-though and I stopped using it there. It’s not that I didn’t like the experience, it’s because I felt it was obnoxious for the clerk because they had to hand the terminal out the window so you could tap the phone to it. It was easier for me but harder for them. And they already work at McDonald’s.

Guy English joins Dan Moren and me to talk about the Microsoft HoloLens and the demise of Dan Lyons’ career.

This week on The San Jose Mercury News-recommended Turning This Car Around, we talk about pets. And kids. And rabbit poop. And all three being in the same room.

Wired got an early look at Microsoft’s moonshot. It looks cool if it works, is affordable enough to get to a lot of people and doesn’t get quietly shelved in a couple of years.

No pricing or availability dates were announced today.

ADDED: I forgot to mention that a couple of weeks ago, I spoke with someone who had tried the HoloLens and, without revealing to me what it was, said they were suitably impressed by it.

GIGO’s Laura Hazard Owen:

Amazon has yanked the “Amazon Elements” diaper brand it launched for Prime members just six weeks ago, saying that it is working to improve the diapers’ design “based on early customer feedback.”