Dennis Sellers

<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>

<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;">Japan is investigating allegations that pressure from Apple forced Yahoo Japan to pull back from a game platform that competes with the App Store, reports <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Apple-probed-in-Japan-over-anti-competitive-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Nikkei</em>.</a></p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has dropped to sixth in the global laptop market<strong> </strong>with its market share sliding to 6.5%, according to new data from <a href="http://www.trendforce.com">TrendForce</a>. That’s down from 7.7% in the first quarter of 2018.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy birthday, iMac. The ground-breaking all-in-one was launched on May 6, 1998, at a Macworld Expo by Steve Jobs. I’ve owned every iteration of the iMac since then, so I’m expecting Apple to give us a cool new version any day now.</p>