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<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions has hired Terry Wood from Netflix to head up the company’s production plans for original content for Apple’s upcoming streaming video service.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">After releasing <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2019/2/7/ios-1214-released-fixes-group-facetime-glitch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS 12.14,</a> Apple has also released macOS Mojave 10.14.3 SuppleMental Update, which also fixes the Group FaceTime glitch. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has released iOS 12.1.4, which offers a fix for the Group FaceTime glitch discovered last week. You can download it on your iPhone or iPad by going to Settings --> General --> Software Update. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">YouTube has unseated Apple as the Most Intimate Brand among millennials. YouTube ranked the most intimate brand among millennials for the first time, climbing up from third last year, according to MBLM’s Brand Intimacy 2019 Study, which is the largest study of brands based on emotions. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is teaming up with 1800Flowers.com for a new Apple Pay promo: use the latter’s mobile payment service at the latter’s website and save $15 off when you shop the special <a href="https://c.apple.com/r?v=2&la=en&lc=usa&a=c33dadigY%2FjpWfh6f%2BANoIVGUH4IoErsHNqjIoNK3gj4TfYojgsN9WUnSFDpxUjBNZP%2FmbVKXCNohZqrbRlpKQ3OiVEdBqX7AxhXzqvQycMKCDTuRBe1WSeFmy2I2NtHdvsw0ZAWk2%2BjEPBYCvDECw%3D%3D&ct=ab5j3V6H1Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Gift Collection</span></a>.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has moved its modem chip engineering effort into its in-house hardware technology group from its supply chain unit, two unnamed “people familiar with the move” told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-semiconductors/apple-puts-modem-engineering-unit-into-chip-design-group-idUSL1N20000M" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Reuters</em>, </a>which says this may be a sign that the tech giant wants to develop a key component of its iPhones after years of buying it from outside suppliers</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for a patent (number 20190039570) for a “system and method for vehicle authorization” that would allow you to summon a vehicle and unlock it with your iPhone.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Many major companies such as Air Canada, Hollister, and Expedia are are recording every tap and swipe you make on their iPhone apps with asking for permission or you even realizing it, according to a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>TechCrunch</em> report</a>.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Eve’s just-released <a href="https://www.evehome.com/en/eve-light-strip" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Eve Light Strip</a> is a $79, HomeKit-compatible lighting solution that provides up to 1800 lumens and a triple diode architecture for full spectrum white and millions of colors.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">With iOS 12, you can scan documents in Notes. You can also add a signature or manually sign a document. With an iPad Pro or iPad (6th generation), you can add a signature or sign a document with your Apple Pencil.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple's Beats brand has debuted a <a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUJ62LL/A/beats-studio3-wireless-headphones-neymar-jr-custom-edition?fnode=605218e93b85384dfcba4cf9e44436b3dea2c8fc42f403b466dfe907c09d9d043c82da57b147a354b3370f14ee47326ed99d1c536928d135f86f2df839c150fc3c6c61cc521aa941df7d0689c82fb11cad5423ba23015d881969c7c65b862f75269ee6de07b574f682e73b8c8438093c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">luxury version</a> of its Studio3 Wireless headphones, the Neymar Jr. Custom Edition. They’re $349.95; that’s $70 more than other versions of the headphones. Also there’s no release date for them mentioned yet.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is “going on the offensive” against Fundamental Innovation Systems International (FISI), a USB charging patent holder, and suspected patent troll, according to a<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/399047456/Apple-Versus-FISI#from_embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <em>Scribd</em> report</a>.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is modifying the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 to work around Qualcomm’s German patent injunction, reports <a href="http://www.fosspatents.com/2019/02/rumor-apple-modifying-iphone-7-and-8-to.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>FOSS Patents</em></a>.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.arizton.com/">Arizton</a>'s latest report states that the <a href="https://www.arizton.com/market-reports/global-wireless-headphones-market">global wireless headphones market</a> is anticipated to generate revenues of around $34 billion by 2024, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 20% during 2018–2024. The research group says that, in 2017, AirPods accounted for 85% of earbuds sales in the U.S.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Back in the old days (2015, which is old by Internet standards) analyst Rod Hall with the investment firm of J.P. Morgan predicted — in a note to clients obtained by <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nsntn7c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AppleInsider</em></a> — an Apple TV App Store that would offer traditional console-style videogames.</p>