Apple reported fiscal 2017 third quarter earnings, with sales $45.4 billion (up $3 billion) and net income of $8.7 billion (up from $7.8 billion a year ago). Traditionally one of Apple’s lighter quarters, those results were still ahead of analysts’ expectations — and the company’s own guidance for the next quarter was also stronger than expected, boosting the stock price. It used to be fun to watch Apple’s “services” revenue — which includes their media sales — grow and ultimately overtake Amazon’s “media sales” business, but then Amazon stopped breaking out media sales in 2017 and moved to charting subscription […]