Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is teaming up with Snapfish — a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service — for a new Apple Pay promo. Use Apple’s mobile payment service in the Snapfish app — available at the Apple App Store — and get 75% off of all cards.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store this morning, <a href="https://www.axios.com/exclusive-apple-to-remove-vaping-apps-from-store-8669fd94-e92a-4ce4-a9e2-ce5afa598b67.html">Axios reports</a>. In June, the tech giant quit accepting new apps that promote vaping (the use of electronic cigarettes).</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has hired Trump ally, Jeffrey Miller, to lobby on its behalf as the tech giant tried to avoid getting hit with another round of tariffs, <a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&amp;filingID=85CC4771-A761-4666-909B-BD742995BC28&amp;filingTypeID=1"><span style="text-decoration:underline">a lobbying registration form shows</span></a> — as noted by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/14/apple-hires-pro-trump-lobbyist-as-it-tries-to-avoid-tariffs-on-iphones.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar">CBNC.</a></p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for a patent (number 20190349662) for a “system having device-mount audio mode” that involves the“Apple Glasses,” a head-mounted, augmented reality system is coming in (depending on which rumors you believe) 1-3 years.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strategyanalytics.com%2Fstrategy-analytics%2Fhome&esheet=52129398&newsitemid=20191114005710&lan=en-US&anchor=Strategy+Analytics&index=1&md5=3a6df53f48f55ef8d77a8d90302710fc">Strategy Analytics</a> forecasts that Apple’s entry into the 5G race in the third quarter of 2020 will catapult the vendor into the lead in 5G smartphones. The research group says the tech giant will capture a dominant share in the emerging smartphone technology segment.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple signed on 200,000 subscribers to Apple News+ (of which I’m a BIG fan) in its first 48 hours in March, but has been stuck in neutral since that time, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/14/apple-news-has-struggled-to-add-subscribers-since-march-launch.html">CNBC</a>, quoting unnamed “people familiar with the matter.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">OWC has announced that their complete line of docking solutions is compatible with the newly-released MacBook Pro 16-inch.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has released a firmware update (revision 2B588) for the AirPods Pro, but there’s no release notes about what the upgrade does.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Wearable technology can safely identify heart rate irregularities that subsequent clinical evaluations confirmed to be atrial fibrillation, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Apple now published in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine </em>(NEJM)<em>.</em></p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is considering bundling its paid Internet services — including Apple News+, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, as soon as 2020, in a bid to gain more subscribers, reports <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-14/apple-mulls-bundling-digital-subscriptions-as-soon-as-2020"><em>Bloomberg</em>,</a> quoting unnamed "people familiar with the matter.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple today announced that customers in the U.S. can enroll in three health studies — the Apple Women’s Health Study, the Apple Heart and Movement Study, and the Apple Hearing Study. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A federal grand jury <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/fourteen-indicted-6-million-counterfeit-iphones-scheme-biggest-fraud-its-kind-southern">indictment </a>has charged 14 alleged members of an international criminal organization with dozens of fraud, conspiracy, identity theft and money laundering charges related to their multi-million-dollar counterfeit iPhone and iPad scheme.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We have the Apple Watch. “Apple Glasses,” a head-mounted, augmented reality system is coming in (depending on which rumors you believe) 1-3 years. Apple is also looking into “finger-mounted device with fabric” that could control a Mac or the AR system, per a new patent filing (number 20190346938).</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Siri, Apple’s “personal digital assistant,” may someday respond to your facial expressions and emotions. The tech giant has filed for a patent (number 20190348037) for an “intelligent software agent” that would do just that.</p>

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