Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Good news for Apple Music. Cloud music services such as Apple’s streaming service is set to grow and grow and grow, according to new data from <a href="http://www.researchandmarkets.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Research and Markets</a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple may have <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2019/3/29/goodbye-airpower-we-hardly-knew-you-well-actually-we-didnt-know-you?rq=AirPower" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">abandoned plans</a> for its AirPower wireless charger, but that doesn’t mean the company has abandoned plans for such a device. The tech giant has filed for another patent (number 20190199144) for a “wireless system with ambient field nulling.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This should be good news for Apple’s iMovie, Final Cut Pro X, GarageBand, Logic Pro X, and Clips software. According to a <a href="http://www.technavio.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Technavio report</a>. Thea audio/video editing software market is worth $2.43 billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12% from 2019 to 2023.</p>

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They...

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Saturday, June 29, is the 12th anniversary of the original iPhone launch. BankMyCell,  a site for comparing trade-in items for tech devices, has accumulated Google search trends, isolated by buyer and trade-in intent queries to chart 12 years the buzz of Apple fans around the world. To support the anniversary side of things, BankMy Cell has also created gallery slides and a long form image if you wish to simply showcase the evolution timeline of the iPhone for your reader’s nostalgia. You can see it live <a href="https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/iphone-evolution-timeline-chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p>

<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>