LG has found a fix for a problem that left its high-end Mac monitor unable to work properly when placed within a few feet of a router.

An LG spokesman told Recode that the company is adding additional shielding to newly manufactured models.

“LG apologizes for this inconvenience and is committed to delivering the best quality products possible, so all LG UltraFine 27-inch 5K displays manufactured after February 2017 will be fitted with enhanced shielding,” the company said in an email.

Existing models will be able to be retrofitted with the enhanced shielding, which will allow the monitor to be placed near a router.

The LG-made monitor was announced by Apple in October alongside the new MacBook Pro.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Although there was much good news for Apple in its quarterly earnings report, one area that remains weak is the iPad.

Apple sold 13.3 million iPads, generating $5.5 billion in revenue. That represents a roughly 19 percent drop in units and a 22 percent drop in revenue from a year ago.

Still, CFO Luca Maestri said Apple sold more iPads in the quarter than it had anticipated it would. “IPad is incredibly successful,” he said on a conference call, noting Apple’s large share of the market and its share among surveys of those who plan to buy tablets.

CEO Tim Cook added later that there were several factors in the quarter that influenced iPad sales, including a change in inventory levels and component shortages at one supplier — a shortage that continues into the current quarter.

Cook also said he remains bullish on Apple’s tablet.

“We’ve got some exciting things coming on iPad,” he said. “I still feel very optimistic about where we can take the product.”

The brightest spot for the iPad was mainland China, where Apple saw sales up “double digits” from the prior year, CEO Tim Cook said on a conference call with analysts.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Boosted by strong iPhone sales, Apple did indeed return to growth in the last part of 2016 following several quarters of year-on-year sales declines.

The company sold 78 million iPhones in the quarter, up 5 percent from a year earlier and roughly in line with what analysts expected.

Overall, Apple said Tuesday that it earned $17.9 billion, or $3.36 per share, on revenue of $78.4 billion. Analysts had been looking for per-share earnings of around $3.22, with revenue expected to be around $77.8 billion, at the high end of what Apple had forecast in October.

In other parts of the businesses Apple sold 13 million iPads and more than five million Macs. It also generated more than. $7 billion from its services efforts and more than $4 billion from other products, including the Apple Watch.

The results show Apple’s services business growing even faster than expected, while the iPad and other products did less well than many analysts expected. Apple said it was a record for Apple Watch, but again declined to provide any specific numbers.

“We’re thrilled to report that our holiday quarter results generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke multiple records along the way,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. “We sold more iPhones than ever before and set all-time revenue records for iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. Revenue from Services grew strongly over last year, led by record customer activity on the App Store, and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.” 

However, Apple’s guidance for the current quarter was below what some analysts were hoping for. Apple said to expect revenue of between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion, while many analysts were looking for $54 billion or more. Gross profit margins should be between 38 percent and 39 percent, Apple said.

Shares of Apple rose slightly in after-hours trading, changing hands recently at $124.62, up $3.27, or more than 2 percent.

The Greater China region was once again Apple’s weakest spot, with its $16.2 billion in sales representing a 12 percent decrease from the prior year. However, that was also an 85 percent improvement sequentially and a far narrower year-over-year decline than Apple saw in the prior quarter.

Here’s a look at how Apple did, product by product and region by region:

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Apple is expected to post its first sales growth in several quarters when it reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday.

The company forecast in October that it would post revenue between $76 billion and $78 billion, up from $75.9 billion in December 2015.

If Apple does indeed return to sales growth, the iPhone will, of course, be the big driver; analysts expect Apple to have sold about 78 million of the devices during the quarter, which included the holiday season. That would be up about 4 percent from the previous year.

Next most closely watched will be Apple’s services business. Though it’s far, far smaller than its phone business (around 13 percent of sales), Apple’s services business has grown upward of 20 percent year over year.

“The 2016 App Store numbers and the New Year’s Day App Store sales underscore how quickly Apple is becoming a services business,” Loup Ventures analyst Gene Munster wrote in a recent research note.

But there are several other factors at play, including what analysts believe is a stabilization of the iPad market, as well as growth for the still-nascent Apple Watch.

Research firm Above Avalon is predicting that Apple sold 15.5 million iPads in the quarter, down 4 percent from a year ago, with sales of the Apple Watch pegged at about 5.4 million. Apple hasn’t yet broken out Apple Watch sales, so it may be tough to tell whether the company reaches that number or not.

The Mac remains another important component, with sales also expected to top five million, according to Above Avalon.

Apple watchers have plenty of other questions on their minds. Here’s what’s top-of-mind for us:

How will Donald Trump impact Apple’s business?

Apple’s relationship with the new president is a complicated one, as Trump has called on Apple to do more manufacturing in the U.S. and Tim Cook has criticized Trump’s moves on immigration.

What is Apple seeing in China?

Until recently, China had been Apple’s fastest-growing market. Last quarter, China was the area where Apple’s sales fell the most. The company remains bullish for the long term, but how did it do over the holidays, and what is it doing to boost sales?

How does Apple see its dispute with Qualcomm affecting business?

Apple and Qualcomm are in a pretty big legal tussle, but they still need each other. While it makes its own main processor for the iPhone, Apple depends on Qualcomm for the modem chip, especially for Sprint and Verizon, for which no ready alternative exists.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

While the tech industry as a whole started speaking out against Donald Trump’s travel ban over the weekend, one segment has been noticeably silent: The big telecom firms.

There hasn’t been a peep from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile, and there could be a clear reason why. Each of those firms really wants big things from the Trump administration and doesn’t want to risk angering the new president.

Sprint and T-Mobile are seen as highly likely to seek approval for some sort of merger, while AT&T is in the midst of trying to buy Time Warner. Verizon, which has already made several deals, is seen as a potential buyer of a cable company or other major player that would require regulatory approval.

All four would also like to see the Federal Communications Commission pull back on overall regulation, including the most aggressive parts of net neutrality. However, with a Republican majority and Ajit Pai as chairman, that seems already to be a done deal.

The telecommunications companies have largely praised the Trump administration, especially for its choice of Pai to lead the FCC.

For Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure and T-Mobile CEO John Legere, there has been a notable shift in tone since the election. Legere had some epic Twitter fights with businessman Trump, while Claure was a vocal supporter of candidate Hillary Clinton.

The day after Trump’s victory, though, Legere tweeted his congratulations.

Claure told Sprint employees after the election that he wasn’t trying to shy away from his Clinton support, but added that he was going to give Trump “a fair shot.”

“I pray that he unites our country and continues to make it an even better place for all Americans regardless of their race, their national origin or their religion,” Claure said in the election week email.

As for how Trump’s executive orders on immigration fit with his hopes, Sprint and Claure have been silent.

Representatives from all four companies declined comment.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.