For this last Friday of January 2018, we have a series of fun and informative stories for you:

• Apple has created clever animoji ads for Sunday night's Grammy awards featuring the music of several of the nominees
• Revenues from the iOS App Store are almost double that of Google's Play Store, even with fewer downloads for iOS apps
• Apple's HomePod is now available for pre-order; we talk about some of the first review comments
• TSMC broke ground on a new plant today that will build 5nm process chips for Apple
• The iPhone SE 2 may roll out as soon as May or June of 2018, according to sketchy rumors from DigiTimes