Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for another patent (number 20190146198) for its anticipated augmented reality/virtual reality headset (the rumored “Apple Glasses”). The new filing is for an “optical system for head-mounted display.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple stays at third place in the <a href="http://fortune.com/fortune500/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2019 FORTUNE 500</a>, in which companies are ranked by total revenues for their respective fiscal years. The tech giant has made the list for 37 years.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">President Donald Trump's two U.S. Supreme Court appointees have added to their growing list of disagreements, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion backing iPhone owners in their antitrust suit against Apple Inc., which Justice Neil Gorsuch described as "senseless" in a dissent, reports <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1159323/it-s-kavanaugh-v-gorsuch-in-apple-antitrust-case?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Law360</em></a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies and the one in charge of building chips for the company’s devices, was fed up with Intel and its slow progress on a modem meant to be used in future iPhones, reports <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/behind-the-intel-apple-modem-divorce?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>The Information</em></a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Proton New Energy Future, is launching the EBÖRD table, a wireless “self-sufficient” device that recharges your electronic devices (smartphone, wearables, Air Pods, tablets, etc.) with renewable energy.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">As noted by <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/14/apple-executives-face-second-class-action-over-misleading-financial-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AppleInsider</em></a>, a class action complaint — the second one — takes issue with comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook and Chief Financial Office Luca Maestri in the quarter leading up to a revenue guidance correction in January. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A smarter watch band will play a crucial role in Apple Watch's future as a personal technology device as they begin to incorporate technology and gain additional importance for wearable computing, Neil Cybart of <a href="http://www.aboveavalon.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Above Avalon</em></a> — which is focused on analyzing Apple from a Wall Street and Silicon Valley perspective — said three years ago. We haven’t seen any yet, but I do think they’re coming.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m a big fan of Pixelmator Pro, my go-to app for image editing. It has most of the features I need in a relatively easy-to-use interface. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Japanese language blog, <a href="http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/rumor/entry-37460.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Macotakara</em></a> says Apple’s follow-up to the iPhone XR will still be available in six colors, but will replace the coral and blue options with green and lavender hues. <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/alleged-iphone-xi-xi-max-xe-case-molds-surface-with-square-camera-bumps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Another rumor</a> says Apple is incorporating a square camera bump into the designs of its 2019 smartphones.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Security researchers have found a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips which, if exploited, can be used to steal sensitive information directly from processors dating back to 2011, reports <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/zombieload-flaw-intel-processors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>TechCrunch</em>.</a></p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Satechi has announced its new <a href="http://email.maxborgesagency.com/c/eJwNj8HKgzAQhJ9Gb5XdmE3iIYe24HvE7NoK0YhJ6d-3_wMDMx_MYYb9pADj2m---QSEGh2A0gMOBp76bp6zeQAZPY-dhj38Lfl6SQkvOeJviHnv315ZBaSQlsgAcXXseGRagdg4EuQ--XetZ-nGe6fmphKqxPc2HFIbnVfmT6ylxR1v3-2SJKXc9vwp0l-e5Ti2MhRJSa7SRoTzTPLNV-KhZg6_vvpAE1qzODLWgV7sRJoXYyDAyqhQtwprajfI2ZHstBiMMooGhBgmcdqqf-pkT2A" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aluminum M1 Bluetooth Wireless Mouse</a>, which is compatible with the latest Macs, such as Mac mini, iMac, and iMac Pro, as well as Mac laptops. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court refused to undo a proposed class action dubbed “Apple v. Pepper” accusing Apple of monopolizing the iPhone app market, upholding a Ninth Circuit decision reviving the antitrust suit brought by consumers. Today the <a href="https://actonline.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">App Association</a> is criticizing the ruling. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">OWC has expanded its Aura line of SSDs. The <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2463883-1&h=1122842457&u=https%3A%2F%2Feshop.macsales.com%2Fshop%2Fssd%2Fowc%2Faura-n&a=OWC+Aura+N">OWC Aura N</a> expands Macs with up to 1TB of internal storage. It joins the Aura X2 and Aura P12 (for PC) in the second-generation lineup of OWC Aura PCIe SSDs.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">According to the <a href="http://www.in.idc.asia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">International Data Corporation’s</a> (IDC) <a href="https://www.idc.com/tracker/showproductinfo.jsp?prod_id=103" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker</a>, India’s smartphone market got off to a good start with a total shipment of 32.1 million units in the first quarter of 2019, maintaining a healthy 7.1% year-on-year (YoY) growth. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,286,636) for “fabric-based items with three-dimensional shapes.” It involves the manufacture of not only “smart clothing,” but also “bags, furniture, and other items from materials such as fabric.”</p>