Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Let the Apple Car rumors roll on. Apple has filed for a patent (number 20190347936) for a “wireless vehicle system for enhancing situational awareness.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is looking into ways to improve the mouse for use with its Macs (and, hopefully one day, iPads). The company has filed for a patent (number 10,474,251) for an ambidextrous mouse configured for both left and right handed use. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Actor Gary Oldman (<em>Sid and Nancy, Darkest Hour, The Dark Knight</em>, Harry Potter films) will star in a small screen adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slough House books for Apple TV+, according to <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/gary-oldman-slow-horses-series-apple-1203405839/">Variety</a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-germany-apple-pay/apple-warns-of-risks-from-german-law-to-open-up-mobile-payments-idUSKBN1XP16M?feedName=technologyNews&feedType=RSS&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20reuters%2FtechnologyNews%20%28Reuters%20Technology%20News%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner">Reuters</a>, Apple says moves in Germany to force it to open up Apple Pay to rivals could hurt data protection and the security of financial information.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In a note to clients — as noted by <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/11/15/apple-tv-subscriptions-ads-predicted-to-generate-25-billion-per-year-by-2025">AppleInsider</a> — JP Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee says Apple TV+ will generate $25 billion annually for the tech giant by 2025.</p>

<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>