Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">GarageBand turns 15 this year. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/apple-garageband-modern-music-784257/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><em>Rolling Stone</em></span></a> offers a behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s entry level, music creation tool.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The worldwide market for wearable devices, now inclusive of wireless headphones with smart assistants, is forecast to grow 15.3% over the previous year to 198.5 million units by the end of 2019, according to the International Data Corporation (<a href="http://www.idc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline">IDC</span></a>) <a href="http://www.idc.com/tracker/showproductinfo.jsp?prod_id=962" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker</span></a>. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Apple TV is at the bottom of the US connected TV market, behind Roku, Amazon Fire, and Google Chromecast, according to <a href="http://www.eMarketer.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">eMarketer</a>. This year, 25.1 million Americans will use an Apple TV device, or 13.2% of connected TV users, says the research group.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.lg.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LG Electronics USA </a>will launch its 2019 LG NanoCell LED 4K Ultra HD TVs with AI ThinQ beginning with the April debut of the 55-inch and 65-inch class LG Nano 9 series (SM9500 and SM9000 models), and the 49-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch and 75-inch LG Nano 8 series (SM8670 and SM8600 models) at LG-authorized dealers nationwide.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple’s Macs and the macOS are widely thought of to cause very few problems for the millions of people who use them. However, the most common problem is startup difficulty, according to a new RESCUECOM Computer Repair Report. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/business/media/apple-content-hollywood.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><em>The New York Times</em></span></a> reports that, at its March 25 <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2019/3/11/apple-announces-march-25-event-tvmovie-and-magazine-subscription-services-expected)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“It’s Showtime” event</a>, Apple s expected to reveal details of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/25/business/media/apple-hollywood-streaming.html?module=inline"><span style="text-decoration:underline">what it has been working on</span></a> with stars from both sides of the camera like Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Brie Larson, Jason Momoa, Octavia Spencer, J.J. Abrams, M. Night Shyamalan and Steven Spielberg.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Today Apple introduced a new iPad Air and an iPad mini. However, there’s still no sign of the long-awaited AirPower wireless charger.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If you have a Mac, iPad Pro, and/or a new Apple TV, and if you like games — especially retro arcade titles— add the $49.95 <a href="https://steelseries.com/gaming-controllers/nimbus">Nimbus Wireless Controller</a> to your shopping list.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for a patent (number 20190082097) for a “user interface for camera effects” that shows the tech giant’s ongoing attempts to make the camera features of the iPhone and iPad even better.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The global market for true wireless hearables such as Apple’s AirPods is estimated to reach a volume of 129 million units by 2020, according to the latest research from Counterpoint Research’s Emerging Technology Opportunities (<a href="https://report.counterpointresearch.com/posts/report/Emerging_Tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ETO</a>) service.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Stanford Medicine has reported results of the <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/apple-heart-study-launches-to-identify-irregular-heart-rhythms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Heart Study</a>, the largest study ever of its kind, which enrolled over 400,000 participants from all 50 states in a span of only eight months. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,230,796) for an “intelligent disk space manager” for its various devices. It could be configured to manage the disk space by requesting clients running on the user device to free up disk space. </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;">Another day, another lawsuit. Maxwell, which makes various electronics products, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/402008507/Maxell-vs-Apple#from_embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">is suing Apple</a> for … what else? …. patent infringement.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Well, I didn’t see this coming, but a California federal jury on Friday found that Apple owes Qualcomm roughly $31 million for infringing several patents relating to smartphone processor/ This is legal battle that’s been going on for around two years.</p>