Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for a patent (number 20180234549) for a “user interface for phone call routing among devices.” It involves the current (and future?) tech behind Continuity, which allow various Apple devices to work together so that, for instance, you can make and receive phone calls on your Mac without picking up your iPhone.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for a patent (number 10,051,423) for “time of flight estimation using a convolutional neural network.” Despite the title of the patent, it’s intended to make it easier to find a lost or misplaced iPhone or iPad.</p>

<p 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 style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, at the end of each week day, we’ll offer this wrap-up of news items you should check out.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Next month Apple will launch new iPhones, a new 13-inch MacBook, new iPad Pros, and the long-awaited AirPower charger, according to a new report from <a href="https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180817PD204.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>DigiTimes</em></a>. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Federal Circuit on Thursday <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1074094/fed-circ-reverses-part-of-7-3m-apple-patent-verdict?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">upended a jury verdict </a>that required Apple to pay $7.3 million to Core Wireless Licensing SARL, which claimed iPads and iPhones infringed two of its patents covering wireless communications technology.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.raindesigninc.com/">Rain Design</a>'s $59.90 mBar pro+ is a worthwhile addition to an arsenal of accessories for a new MacBook Pro — as long as you’re using an external keyboard.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple is almost certainly working on its own augmented reality/virtual reality headset (usually dubbed “Apple Glasses” and expected in 2020). A new patent filing (number 20180232942) dubbed “method for representing virtual information in a real environment’ underscores this.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, at the end of each week day, we’ll offer this wrap-up of news items you should check out.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In a <a href="//loupventures.com/apple-retails-mission-embodied-values/)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blog post</a>— Loup Ventures analyst Gene Munster thinks the number of Apple stores will grow from slightly over 500 now to 600 by 2023.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ARM has <a href="https://www.arm.com/company/news/2018/08/accelerating-mobile-and-laptop-performance" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">presented its roadmap</a> for future CPUs, saying that they’ll be able to outperform Intel chips. If so — and there’s a difference between a company’s hype and reality — ARM-based Macs are almost certainly coming down the road.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=8tT1jgQj-MIC_4R39BtT-SbPE3_X9GRl8lk_7aRSuE6dtwwxyaujqbKpsAO2NehqNBAdS2M8rx6sjeL-kgW8xg==" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jamf</a>, which specializes in Apple ecosystem management, has announced that it made a successful company-wide global migration to Apple technology possible for <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=u_D3i1kkag7kzEAovJ_MWfil7rtODPkIicKYDE3hNrsbUsSh1RHfjG7j-n9YtbvzVrppl51IUSMEtqUV0_vDJWSTpm4QHFuhhoqsoVIfTDI8mNuV9alP-fOiq-1xCCAw1jg_TGAs-kpnmekPEi5X_qEekGXg-GeJC0w8u1RTuBbuXdNFxgDC1bqp4gYTVYdOZPHBsbLfjsZuVWPIx2VuLBsKtPc5DgcxICyNESGPGx4=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rituals</a>, one of the fastest growing luxury brands in Europe. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">FallCall Solutions, the creator of the FallCall Lite app for Apple Watch and iPhone, has teamed up with Mytrex — a provider of monitoring services in the Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) market — to bring fully-integrated emergency medical monitoring services into the Apple ecosystem, including the iPhone and Apple Watch.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Take this as further evidence of a full-fledged “Apple Car” or, as I do, evidence of new features planned for the iPhone and perhaps the Apple Watch: Apple has filed for a patent (number ) for “enhanced automative passive entry.”</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’ve forked out the big bucks for the 2018 MacBook Pro, you’ll want to protect it when you’re on the go. One fine item for helping keep it pristine is the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/phwq6j8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Palm Rest and Trackpad Protector</a> from UPPERCASE. </p>