Dennis Sellers

<p class="">Twenty-one of Australia’s 22 Apple Stores will reopen on May 7 at 10 a.m. (local time) following extended closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Apple's updated regional retail webpages. The exception is the Sydney store.</p>

<p class=""><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/05/04/apple-fights-us-government-intervention-in-iphone-copyright-case/#5263ae47681a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forbes</a> reports that Apple is fighting a Department of Justice intervention in its copyright suit against cybersecurity startup Corellium, according to recently unsealed court documents.</p>

<p class="">France says Apple is undermining its effort to fight COVID-19 by refusing to help make its iPhones more compatible with a planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app, reports <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-tech-idUSKBN22H0LX" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a>. The catch is, per the Sellers Research Group (that's me) that French officials want the tech giant to ease up on its privacy-ensuring methods.</p>

<p class="">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,642,356) for a "wearable interactive user interface” that involves an "Apple Glove.”</p>

<p class="">There’s been talk of bendable or flexible iPhones and iPads. How about bendable Mac laptops? Apple has filed for a patent (number 10,642,318) that hints a a variety of flexible products.</p>

<p class="">Let the Apple Car rumors roll on. Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,643,391) for an “immersive virtual display” for a vehicle. And it could use the rumored “Apple Glasses.”</p>

<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>