Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">With Family Sharing (which we’ll look at tomorrow), you can create Apple IDs for children under 13. Apple IDs allow them to participate in Family Sharing and use other Apple services such as iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, and Game Center.</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 today's picks.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Steve is out of pocket this week, so the AWT News Update is on a one-day hiatus. In its place, I’ll offer a text-only (no podcast) summary of breaking stories with a tip o’ my hat to my former website, <em>Apple Daily Report</em>.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">New Sensor Tower <a href="https://sensortower.com/solutions/store-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Store Intelligence</a> data reveals that the means by which iOS users discover games and apps vary drastically, and that browsing the App Store has become more important to app discovery following the introduction of iOS 11 in fall 2017.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) will present its 2018 Environmental Achievement Award to Lisa Jackson, vice president of Apple’s Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Washington, D.C. She’s being recognized for “her visionary leadership and outstanding environmental stewardship over a most distinguished career.”</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The California Department of Motor Vehicles <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/14/apple-autonomous-driving/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has confirmed</a> that Apple has 55 self-driving vehicles and 83 drivers permitted to test on the state’s roads. The tech giant had about 45 self-driving vehicles in January. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Starting May 17, Apple and French cable television company Canal+ <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/14/apple-and-canal-to-offer-apple-tv-4k-as-alternate-cable-box/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">will offer</a> an Apple TV 4K instead of a traditional cable box to Canal’s 5.2 million subscribers. The deal will cost customers a $7 rental fee.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In a note to clients — as noted by <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/14/iphone-8s-could-bring-back-iphone-5c-color-options-in-the-fall-says-analyst" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a> — Rosenblatt Securities analyst Jun Zhang says that Apple could release brightly-colored versions of its 2018 smartphone line-up, reviving the color scheme used in the iPhone 5C in an attempt to make an LCD-equipped model more distinct from the versions using an OLED display. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The families of several of those killed in an EgyptAir plane crash caused by an on-board fire have filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the fire started when one of its devices — perhaps an iPad mini or iPhone 6S — overheated.</p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As noted by <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/14/apple-mail-security-flaw-encrypted-email/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>9to5Mac</em></a>, researchers have found flaws in the HTML rendering of Apple Mail on Mac and iOS, as well as Mozilla Thunderbird, that allows attackers to extract decrypted plain text from encrypted mail messages. The primary issue affecting involves a method that uses multipart responses to exploit HTML rendering issues.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Boinx Software’s mimoLive is a multi-in, multi-out live video engine that’s a complete overhaul of the popular live production system once known as BoinxTV live video production system. It includes a number of features for optimal live streaming across multiple platforms.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’re short on space on your Mac, you can free up a lot of space by moving your Photos library to an external drive.</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 today's picks.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Another day, another lawsuit. As noted by <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/11/apple-hit-with-action-suit-over-macbook-macbook-pro-butterfly-keyboard-failures" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AppleInsider</em></a>, a class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District Court of California against Apple, alleging a  flawed keyboard design deployed in MacBook models from 2015 on and claiming the company knew about the defect at or before the product's launch. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Having won nearly $1 billion from Apple in a series of patent trials, VirnetX has appealed several inter partes review decisions invalidating network security patents that Apple was found to infringe, arguing that the reviews may still be unconstitutional despite the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of an administrative review process that allows those engaged in patent lawsuits to more easily invalidate questionable IP, reports <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1042389/virnetx-questions-apple-s-aia-reviews-in-1b-patent-row?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Law360</em></a>.</p>