Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">As noted by <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/jony-ive-leaving-apple-iphone-lovefrom" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BuzzFeed News</a>, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an internal memo to Apple employees about Jony Ive’s departure.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, will depart the company as an employee later this year to form an independent design company that will count Apple among its clients. It will be a blow — in after-hours trading, Apple saw around <a href="https://twitter.com/stevekovach/status/1144351300160827408" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$9 billion wiped from its market cap</a> —  but it also opens up some new, interesting possibilities.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR feature a Dual SIM with a nano-SIM and an eSIM. Now Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,334,427) for an “in-advance eSIM management notification.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has announced that Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, will depart the company as an employee later this year to form an independent design company that will count Apple among its clients. While he pursues personal projects, Ive and his new company will reportedly continue to work closely and on a range of projects with Apple.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Sabih Khan, a 24-year Apple veteran, has been named to the company’s executive team as senior vice president of Operations. He’ll continue to report to Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has made another deal to supply its Apple TV set-top boxes as replacements for cable boxes. UK broadband provider EE says it will scrap its current set-top box <a href="https://redirect.viglink.com/?key=f8a3aea2c698452463a8bebdf645e9f7&u=https%3A%2F%2Fshop.ee.co.uk%2Fbroadband%2Fapple-tv-4k&opt=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">offering to a new broadband plan</a> that includes a free Apple TV 4K.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Counting those test driving the service for free, Apple Music has 60 million users, according to Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Services — as reported by <a href="https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/apple-music-now-has-60m-paying-subscribers-worldwide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Music Business Worldwide</em></a>. He adds that Beats 1, Apple Music’s in-house radio station, now has “tens of millions of listeners.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A <a href="https://www.decluttr.com/mobile-device-secondhand-market-analysis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new study</a> from <a href="http://decluttr.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Decluttr</a>, a tech buy-back site and refurbished tech seller, reveals some major misconceptions Americans have surrounding their mobile device. The biggest one? Nearly 1-in-3 Americans believe they have a 5G capable phone, when 5G isn’t widely available. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A new patent filing (number 20190196607) for “stiffness rendering for a pencil” shows that Apple is investigating ways to make its Apple Pencil even more sensitive and effective.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">iPhones could some day serve as guidance devices for the sensory impaired, based on a new patent filing (number 20190196594) by Apple. Unless the invention regards a completely new stand-alone device, which I doubt.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple will invest $100 million in Japan Display (JDI), according to an <a href="https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM6V66MJM6VULFA03B.html?iref=comtop_8_08" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Ashia Shimbun</em> report</a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If my iPhone rings and I see a number that I don’t recognize, I don’t answer. My theory is that anyone who knows me and wants to talk with me with leave a message. This theory has yet to be proven wrong. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Roku’s streaming TV platform accounted for more than 30% of U.S. sales of connected TV devices in quarter one (Q1) of 2019, further increasing its lead in streaming TV platforms according to the latest research from <a href="http://www.strategyanalytics.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Strategy Analytics</a>. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Comcast — the company I love to hate and hate to love — has announced it will offer Apple Watch Series 4 with built-in cellular, the new 10.5-inch iPad Air, and the new 7.9-inch iPad mini to <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xfinity.com%2Fmobile%2F&esheet=52004981&newsitemid=20190626005084&lan=en-US&anchor=Xfinity+Mobile&index=1&md5=d1ed7ac8f80d154393f5cf5cb3f3c15c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Xfinity Mobile</a> customers. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Addigy, a provider of cloud-based Apple device management software, has announced a new original equipment relationship with <a href="http://www.brightgauge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BrightGauge</a>, a Continuum company, to integrate the company’s dashboard and reporting solutions with Addigy’s Apple Device Management software. </p>