Re/code Daily - Today's Apple Earnings Could Mark the End of An Era

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•	Last year, Apple was riding high as it sold a record number of smartphones with its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus releases. This year, analysts are pretty sure that the company didn't beat its 74.5 million record mark. Given that iPhones account for two-thirds of the company's revenue, many on Wall Street thinks that this could spell the end of Apple's days as the most valuable business in the world. [Dawn Chmielewski \| Re/code]
•	After Sunday's flood of executive departures, Twitter has tapped commerce chief and ex-Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard to run its media team for the time being. Also of note, Twitter stopped showing ads to a select group of VIP users over the past few months, part of an effort to keep those users engaged on the service. [Peter Kafka \| Re/code]
•	In its earnings report today, Sprint will give an update on its ambitious strategy of expanding and improving its service, while simultaneously cutting $2.5 billion in an effort to return to profitability. A number of analysts don't think the company can pull it off, and expect today's report to reflect that. As for AT&T's Q4 report, Wall Street is especially curious about how its DirecTV merger is going. [Ina Fried \| Re/code]
•	Tomorrow, EMC will report its Q4 earnings. People aren't interested in those numbers so much as they are about where things stand with the Dell-EMC merger, which analysts think is less and less likely to go through as time goes on. [Arik Hesseldahl \| Re/code]
•	When Amazon reports its quarterly figures on Thursday, expect investors to look closely at whether Amazon continues its trend of rapid growth in online commerce. A new report from a research firm says that its adding fewer and fewer Amazon Prime customers, who buy an outsized amount of stuff on Amazon. [Greg Bensinger \| The Wall Street Journal]