<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,154,316) for a “motion-based configuration of a multi-user device.” The details in the patent seem to involve a TV set, but more likely involve a Mac or a new Apple TV set-top box.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been a flurry of reports about Apple suppliers that make iPhones and iPhone parts are hurting because of poor iPhone sales. Those reports may have been a teeny bit overblown.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies?srnd=premium)"><em>Bloomberg </em></a><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies?srnd=premium)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report </a>in October claimed that Apple, Amazon, and almost 30 other companies have been the subject of hacking by Chinese spies embedding chips in hardware for surveillance purposes. Apple says this simply wasn’t true, and a new report backs up the Cupertino, California-based company.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple Pay is now available in Germany with support for 15 banks and services such as Comdirect and Deutsche Bank.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple, Google Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and other tech firms have criticized the “anti-encryption” law passed by the Australian government last week, reports <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/10/silicon-valley-denounce-australia-encryption-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>TechCrunch</em></a>.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As Apple has continued to push deeper and deeper into the enterprise, Dean Hager, CEO of Apple device management company <a href="https://www.jamf.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ja</span></a><a href="https://www.jamf.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">m</span></a><a href="https://www.jamf.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">f</span></a>, predicts that 2019 will be the greatest Windows to Mac migration in history. </p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">You can take an electrocardiogram (ECG) with the ECG app in watchOS 5.1.2 on the Apple Watch Series 4.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As noted by <a href="http://www.macrumors.com)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>MacRumors</em></a>, Apple continues to mention its unreleased wireless charging mat AirPower in <a href="https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?sort=relevance&search=airpower">recent job listings</a> in the United States and New Zealand. The wireless charger, announced well over a year ago, will — should it ever actually see the light of day — be able to charge a Qi-compatible iPhone, an Apple Watch, and a pair of AirPods (in a special wireless charging case) at the same time regardless of where they're placed on the pad.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">HYPER by Sanho Corp. has announced a new Kickstarter campaign for its HyperDrive for the 2018 iPad Pro (both the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models). </p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-apple/qualcomm-wins-import-ban-against-several-apple-iphones-in-china-idUSKBN1O91LD" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Reuters</em></a>, Qualcomm has won a preliminary order in a Chinese court banning the import and sale of several iPhones in its legal brouhaha with Apple.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=TGhSfNFeLdeLkdD8SS7LIxq4FlK6m39E1vj3P3BDdt-bgQ_R8w9VnlYWE1u3Oo6J" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jamf</span></a>, which specializes in Apple device management solutions, announced that it’s has partnered with Jamf Certified Managed Service Provider (MSP) <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=zzS1IXbmu7yGI5Zdx45PsSfYyAClYSgFhX8wq3hJZ_beM0c6hVFKIwM3zl9K7Ti-P8m1LZ0agi7JFrBt-1zvWe0AXdDzMhOVxatCVaW_73Q=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CareServant</span></a> to power a modernized patient bedside experience at Emma Children’s Hospital, a part of the <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=nBjI8rgzGOiyut6nzgNVHPToot5FwXibEb6K3B0Kk2fbMR2g2L60eRYGLPAIAzp_5ibnMkBdgoi416m40YGYTqMYqZ4iOLRcVGArBV3UU1K86a0wcdvogFzot_3ghUi3qFDXWJT_YiSnkzoztux98fxxKdaj9n3hd8o4FrYBlke5O1Syj363wH3GMct3ij0qNCFV5EXI4QeH7IntivgCbQ==" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Amsterdam University Medical Center</span></a> in the Netherlands. Emma Children’s has served sick children for more than 153 years.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">They’re not as robust at the <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2018/12/4/audio-engine-2-little-speaker-big-sound" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Audio Engine 2+</a>, but the $120 Samson <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.samsontech.com_samson_products_studio-2Dmonitors_media-2Done_mediaonem50_&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=AuqQIpA6K9PhF5wFpz2VwuJyw25o2Jpy3YjpFZvpzzQ&m=FJKGjrUIzSLrumACEGyKW3z1Wsb30sTR1-oPncQUq4g&s=PEbk7c-89aVkfGMy4ivvVF6BTNXAEb_VEg6ov6cGseY&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">MediaOne M50 Powered Monitors</span></a> are a full-range speaker solution at half the price. They’re certainly worth your consideration as a desktop speaker system.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Future versions of Apple’s Maps app may let you “peek ahead and behind” hints a new patent filing (number 20180348005). The invention would allow you to peek ahead or behind during a turn-by-turn navigation presentation that Maps provides while tracking a device (e.g., a mobile device, a vehicle, etc.) traversal of a physical route. </p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">You can save time when working on your Mac by using keyboard shortcuts. To use a keyboard shortcut, hold down one or more modifier keys while pressing the last key of the shortcut. For example, to use the shortcut Command-C (copy), hold down Command, press C, then release both keys.</p>
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Future Apple Watches may be able to keep the Digital Crown from performing inadvertent actions. Apple has filed for a patent (number 20180335891) for “rejection of false turns of rotary inputs for electronic devices.”</p>
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