Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the heart of the Marunouchi business district, Apple will open its newest and largest store in Japan across from the historic Tokyo Station this Saturday, Sept. 7. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Whoo hoo! With the arrival of iPadOS, you get the “desktop version” of the Safari web browser rather than the more limited mobile version. What’s more you can manage downloads in the tablet operating system.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-bonds/apple-seeks-to-raise-7-billion-in-return-to-bond-market-ifr-idUSKCN1VP2LJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">looking to raise $7 billion</a> through a sale of bonds set to price later on Wednesday, IFR reported, the company’s first such issue since November 2017. The debt sale helps Apple refinance roughly $2 billion of debt that’s scheduled to mature this year in addition to much of the $10 billion it has coming due in 2020, according to data compiled by <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/why-apple-s-borrowing-7-billion-even-with-30-times-that-in-cash" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bloomberg</a><em>.</em></p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.invisibleshield.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">InvisibleShield</a>. a ZAGG company, has introduced the Glass Elite VisionGuard+ with anti-microbial technology for the Apple <a href="https://www.zagg.com/us/en_us/invisibleshield/glass-elite-visionguard-plus-iphone-xs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iPhone XS</a>, <a href="https://www.zagg.com/us/en_us/invisibleshield/glass-elite-visionguard-plus-iphone-xs-max" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">XS Max</a>, and <a href="https://www.zagg.com/us/en_us/invisibleshield/glass-elite-visionguard-plus-iphone-xr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">XR</a>. It promotes digital wellness by eliminating 99.99% of harmful bacteria on the device screen, , according to Brad Bell, senior vice president, global marketing for ZAGG Brands. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Western Digital’s My Passport for Mac line now comes with up to to 5TB capacity. It’s now available in 2TB, 4TB, and 5TB versions for $89.99, $129.99, and $159.99, respectively.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2567508-1&h=327460847&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cellpointmobile.com%2F&a=CellPoint+Digital" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CellPoint Digital</a>, a global provider of digital commerce and payment solutions for travel companies together with UATP, an airline-owned payment network, have announced a multi-year agreement with Southwest to enable its passengers to purchase tickets and ancillary services using Apple Pay.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">According to a <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Apple-to-launch-new-low-cost-iPhone-in-2020-to-halt-sales-decline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nikkei</a><em> r</em>eport, Apple plans to launch a lower-cost iPhone next spring to win customers in emerging markets and retake ground in China lost to Huawei Technologies and other rivals. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple will have its next big media event on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Dubbed “By innovation only,” it will be held at 10 a.m. at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, and new iPhones will almost certainly be introduced. This means that the brand’s current devices are set to dramatically drop in trade-in value once the new line-up is announced. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m not yet ready to ditch my MacBook Air for an iPad Pro for on-the-go work and play. Could the combination of iPadOS 13, which should arrive next month or October, and a <a href="https://www.brydge.com/products/brydge-for-ipad-pro-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brydge Pro keyboard</a> change my mind? Maybe.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Trivial fact: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-03/the-titanium-apple-card-contains-90-titanium" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Bloomberg Businessweek</em></a> sent a physical Apple Card to University of California, Berkeley professor and mineralogist Hans-Rudolf Wenk to determine the card's atomic makeup. It’s made of 90% titanium and 10% aluminum. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Richard Gere drama series, <em>Bastards</em>, has been scrapped by Apple, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/apple-scraps-richard-gere-drama-bastards-1235861"><em>The Hollywood Reporte</em>r</a>. It was one of the shows planned for the upcoming Apple TV+ streaming service.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for another patent involving “smart bands” for the Apple Watch that could provide health, medical, or fitness information. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Let the Apple Car rumors roll on. Apple has filed for a patent (number 10,405,177) for “activation of cryptographically paired device” that involves cars and, likely, Apple’s CarPlay tech.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Historically, we have seen articles about new Apple product lines launching as a sudden and unexpected turn of events. The company drops a disruptive technology bomb on an unprepared, well established, but uninspired industry. The truth is actually the quite the opposite.  Apple is like a giant aircraft carrier: so big it turns very slowly and, in retrospect, we see a lot indications it is taking a certain unexpected course.  </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">According to the latest market share survey from <a href="http://netmarkeshare.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NetMarketShare,</a> the market share for both macOS and iOS was up slightly last month.</p>