Dennis Sellers

<p class="">On a <a href="http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-20128-apple-earnings-report-discussion-with-mark-fuccio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new episode of MacVoices</a>, Mark Fuccio joins host Chuck Joiner to provide some thoughts on Apple’s April 2020 financial call. Once again, Apple beat the Street’s expectations.</p>

<p class="">In a filing made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple detailed its latest bond sale in the U.S. marketplace. As noted by <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/05/04/apple-raises-8b-bond-sale-as-debt-market-nears-all-time-low" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a>, the joint book running managers (i.e., underwriters) for this bond sale listed in <a href="https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/f599368d-06f0-444a-b0c1-d77a67adf41c.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the SEC filing</a> Goldman Sachs & Company, Bank of America Securities, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley.</p>

<p class=""><em>The Morning Show</em> co-runner, Kerry Ehrin, has signed a new multiple-year deal with Apple that will also see her develop new projects for the company's streaming service, reports <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/05/the-morning-showshowrunner-kerry-ehrin-overall-deal-apple-1202925111/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deadline</a>. She’ll continue to lead the Reese Witherspoon-Jennifer Aniston drama while also developing new projects for Apple TV+.</p>

<p class="">Apple and Broadcom have shot back at the California Institute of Technology's bid to double its $1.1 billion patent jury trial win partly due to alleged discovery misconduct, telling a California federal judge the accusations are unsupported and the school's "ill-founded and already-exorbitant" damages award should be tossed outright, reports <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1269582/apple-rips-caltech-s-bid-to-double-exorbitant-1b-ip-win?attachments=true&nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&read_more=1&utm_campaign=technology&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law360 </a>(a subscription is required to read the entire article).</p>

<p class="">Apple has updated the 13-inch <a href="https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/">MacBook Pro</a> with the new Magic Keyboard and doubled the storage across all standard configurations.</p>

<p class="">Apple wants to beef up the features of its Apple TV app, as evidenced by a new patent filing (number 2020133631) for a “multi-TV user interface.</p>

<p class="">Apple has been granted another patent (number 10,637,017) for a “flexible battery structure” that hints at either/both “bendable" iPhones and iPads or devices with batteries less likely to be damaged if dropped.</p>

<p class="">On a regular basis, <em>Apple World Today </em>posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are this week’s picks.</p>

<p class="">A new document published by the Centers for Disease Control outlines what it sees as the critical features for digital contact tracing apps. Notably, the document recommends a system for contact tracing that leaves the door open to the project backed by Apple and Google, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/cdc-contact-tracing-criteria-opens-door-for-apple-google-approach.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNBC</a> report.</p>

<p class="">Apple and Visa’s attempt to get an invalidation of a lawsuit that challenges ownership of Apple Pay's core technologies has failed. A United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed Apple and Visa's appeal motion in a series of nonprecedential decisions, <em>Law360</em> <a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/1269025" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> (a subscription is required to read the entire article).</p>

<p class="">Annie Weisman, creator, executive producer and showrunner of Apple’s upcoming dramedy series Physical, has signed an overall deal with the tech company and will develop television projects exclusively for the AppleTV+ streaming service. reports <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/05/annie-weisman-overall-deal-apple-1202923333/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deadline</a>.</p>

<p class="">In an email to Apple Card users about their April statements, Apple says "we understand that the COVID-19 situation poses unique challenges for everyone and some customers may have difficulty making their monthly payments.”</p>

<p class="">Brad Freitag, CEO of Claris, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, told <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/an-apple-business-you-dont-know-that-bets-on-big-coronavirus-growth.html"><span style="text-decoration:underline">CNBC</span></a> that says low-code application development software such as the company's FileMaker will gain popularity as the business world continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>

<p class="">Valve <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/2216278054495230718" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has ended Mac support</a> for SteamVR so its team can focus on Windows and Linux.</p>

<p class="">The newest game added to Apple Arcade is <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/neversong/id1492757836" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Neversong</a>, which is available for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV (the set-top box) — alas, but not for the Mac.</p>