Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Provision Living conducted a recent study on smartphone screen time. The company, which “provides exceptional services to older adults and their families,” surveyed 1,000 millennials and 1,000 baby boomers to find out exactly how Americans spend hours a day on their devices. </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;">According to <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/heritage-authority-refuses-fed-square-demolition-permit-for-apple-store-20190405-p51b97.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><em>The Sydney Morning Herald</em></span></a><em>,</em> a plan to build an Apple store at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia, has been shelved, after heritage authorities refused an application to demolish part of the existing square. The tech giant won’t proceed with its plan, and the Andrews government will now review the operation of Federation Square.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple Music has overtaken Spotify when it comes to the number of paid U.S. subscribers, reports <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-music-overtakes-spotify-in-u-s-subscribers-11554475924" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> .</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If, like me, you have an Apple Pencil or Apple Pencil 2 and a compatible iPad, but aren’t a great artist, you should download Pigment from the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pigment-only-true-coloring/id1062006344?mt=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">App Store</a>. It allows you to color pictures just  like you did as a kid. (Of course, kids can use it, as well.)</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">With iOS 13 certain to be unveiled at June’s Worldwide Developer Conference, several folks and publications — such as <a href="https://www.cultofmac.com/546401/ios-13-will-boast-great-updates-for-ipad-users/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Cult of Mac</em></a> — expect some serious operating system updates for the iPad Pro, such as mouse support and an improved file system. Others want Apple to go even further.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The AirPower may be dead, but Apple hasn’t given up on making its own charging systems.The company has been granted a patent (number 20190203751) for “smart charging systems for portable electronic devices” such as iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches,and Mac laptops.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has seen 7nm chip orders ramp up and the process capacity utilization rate start picking up recently, according to <a href="https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20190403PD209.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>DigiTimes</em></a>. In fact, it may see its 7-nanometer chip capacity pushed to max as it prepares for the 2019 iPhones.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ian Goodfellow, one of the top minds in artificial intelligence at Google, has joined Apple in a director role, reports <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/apple-hires-ai-expert-ian-goodfellow-from-google.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>CNBC</em></a>.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In a note to clients — as noted by <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-apple-goldman-sachs-credit-card-could-be-worth-1-5-billion-in-5-years-analyst-says-51554400003" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Barron’s</em></a><em> </em>— HSBC, a British multinational banking and financial services holding company (and the seventh largest bank in the world) says Apple’s upcoming credit card, the <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2019/3/25/apple-gets-into-the-credit-card-business-with-apple-card?rq=Apple%20Card" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Card</a>, could become a “significant player in the U.S. card market,” HSBC says in new note.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for a patent (number 20190102924) for “generating synthetic group selfies.” A synthetic group selfie can be an arrangement or composition of individual selfies obtained from a plurality of computing devices into a single group image (e.g., synthetic group selfie).</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We have the Apple Watch, so is it time for the “Apple Glove?”Apple has filed for another patent (number 20190101981) for such a wearable (an “IMU-based glove”), which would likely be used in conjunction with the anticipated Apple Glasses, an augmented reality headset.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.lexar.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lexar</a> has announced the Lexar Professional SL100 Pro Portable SSD, a portable solid state drive with a USB 3.1 Type-C Port.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">According to <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1146077/-apple-s-30m-ip-case-is-all-misdirection-evolved-says?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology&read_more=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Law360</em></a>, Evolved Wireless told a Delaware federal jury Wednesday that Apple used "misdirection" to try to convince jurors that the technology giant doesn’t owe millions for infringing two of Evolved's patents related to LTE technology.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple is teaming up with Grubhub— web commerce platform for ordering and delivering take-out food — for a new Apple Pay promo: use the latter’s mobile payment service in the Instacart app — available at the Apple App Store — and get free deliveries on groceries.</p>