Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apple-arcade-its-time-to-play/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">posted stories </a>from developers whose games will debut on Apple Arcade, Apple’s game streaming service that’s arriving this Thursday.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Justin Theroux will star in a so-far-untitled series for Apple TV+ that <em>Luther </em>creator Neil Cross is writing and executive producing with <em>Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes</em> director Rupert Wyatt set to helm the series, according to <a href="https://thegww.com/exclusive-justin-theroux-to-star-in-new-apple-tv-series-from-director-rupert-wyatt-luther-creator-neil-cross/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Geeks Worldwide.</a></p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Former Apple exec, Danielle DePalma, has been hired as Paramount Pictures’ executive vice president of Domestic Marketing. She will report to Marc Weinstock, president of Worldwide Marketing & Distribution, and Mary Daily, co-president of Worldwide Marketing & Distribution, according to <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/09/paramount-names-danielle-de-palma-as-evp-domestic-marketing-1202735861/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deadline</a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><em>The Wrap</em> reports that comedian/actor/writer John Mulaney has signed on to play writer Henry David Thoreau in Apple TV+’s <em>Dickinson</em>, a dark coming-of-age comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld as famed poet Emily Dickinson in her early, rebellious years.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple <a href="https://machinelearning.apple.com/2019/09/15/interspeech.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has announced </a>that it’s attending <a href="https://interspeech2019.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Interspeech 2019</a>, the world’s largest conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/charlie-hunnam-shantaram-series-apple-1203337129/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Variety</a> reports that Charlie Hunnam has been cast in the upcoming <em>Shantaram </em>series that will air on Apple TV+, Apple’s streaming service that’s set to debut Nov. 1.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple won two Creative Arts Emmy<em>s</em> for <em>Carpool Karaoke </em>on Saturday night, one for short form variety series. The Creative Arts Emmys are a class of Emmy Awards presented in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American TV programming.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In a note to clients — as noted by <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/09/15/ming-chi-kuo-iphone-11-having-strong-first-weekend-apple-will-sell-75m-in-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a><em> </em>— analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that, despite predictions otherwise, sales of the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro are off to a strong start in the U.S. and China.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple plans to challenge the European Commission’s order to pay 13 billion euros (about $14.4 billion) in Irish back taxes in a case in the European Union’s crackdown on tax avoidance by multinational companies, reports <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-apple-stateaid/apple-takes-fight-against-13-billion-euro-eu-tax-order-to-court-idUSKBN1W1195" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Reuters</em></a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Outlier Air is Creative's new, $79.99 wireless earbuds. I don’t find their audio quality quite as good as Apple’s AirPods, but they their battery life is better (30 hours compared to 24) as is their price ($79.99 compared to $159).</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for yet granted another patent (number 10,410,434) for avatar creation and editing. It involves the company’s Animoji and Memoji features.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has developed Overton, a framework intended to automate artificial intelligence (AI) system lifecycles by providing a set of novel high-level abstractions, according to <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/13/apple-details-overton-ai-development-tool-whose-models-have-processed-billions-of-queries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VentureBeat.</a> </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Robert Rodriguez and Diego Boneta are teaming up for <em>El Gato Negro</em>, an adaptation of a Mexican comic book being set up at Apple TV+ as a series, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>The Hollywood Reporter.</em></a></p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><em>CNN </em>reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple’s Board of Directors as the two companies will be competing in the video streaming business.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (<a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.com&esheet=52089659&newsitemid=20190909005154&lan=en-US&anchor=IDC&index=1&md5=930892e29999e77a344bb71d090d5b5e" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IDC</a>) <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.com%2Ftracker%2Fshowproductinfo.jsp%3Fprod_id%3D37&esheet=52089659&newsitemid=20190909005154&lan=en-US&anchor=Worldwide+Quarterly+Mobile+Phone+Tracker&index=2&md5=3901f09d01ead28310a1bb3f62ce5970" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker</a> shows signs of market recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020, pushing smartphone shipment growth back into positive territory.</p>