Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">C Spire — the sixth largest wireless provider in the United States and the largest privately held wireless provider in the U.S. — has begun selling Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular), which includes built-in cellular to the world's number one smartwatch. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As noted by<em> </em><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/13/apple-store-israel-talk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>9to5Mac</em></a>, <a href="https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001241296" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Globes</em></a><em>, </em>an Israeli financial newspaper, reports Apple is in preliminary talks with a local mall to open its first retail store in the country.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has hired Broadway Video’s Kelly Costello as a business affairs executive, according to <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/apple-kelly-costello-1202843872/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Variety</em></a>.  She’ll report to Philip Matthys, head of business affairs for the company’s ever-growing worldwide video department.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Apple announced that the <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2018/6/4/wwdc-2018-tvos-12-adds-dolby-atmos-sound-zero-sign-on-new-aerial-screensavers?rq=Dolby%20Atmos) Dolby Atmos with tvOS 12, I’ve wondered if it’s possible for a HomePod to support Atmos" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple TV 4K will support</a>, perhaps with a software update. I wish that this were possible because, boy, those Atmos speaker systems are expensive, but it’s probably just a pipe dream.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Although I don't need my Mac laptops and desktops to be as thin as a supermodel, I do want my Apple Watch to be reasonable svelte and lightweight since I wear it on my wrist.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If your Mac is running slowly or erratically and nothing else — including resetting the NVRAM — has worked, you can reset the SMC (system management controller). </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;">Netflix’s Layne Eskridge is joining Apple as as creative executive, reports <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/06/layne-eskridge-apple-creative-executive-1202408913/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Deadline Hollywood</em></a>. At the streaming service, she was a development executive.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As the World Cup draws near, Apple has announced that Siri, its personal digital assistant, is adding support for football (it’s “football” in most of the world, but Americans know it as “soccer”) in Brazil, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, Turkey, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Israel. This is in addition to 26 other countries that already support Siri sports. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.StarTech.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">StarTech</a> has released two new additions to its line of Sit-Stand Workstations: a monitor arm that attaches to a desk and a wall-mounted desk.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://macappware.com/software/candy-apple/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacAppware's Candy Apple</a> is a sweet, vector based graphic design and illustration app designed for macOS 10.7 and higher. It helps you create drawings, logos, banners, buttons, icons and more and allows you to export in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has identified a limited hardware issue affecting the latest (non-Touch Bar) 13-inch MacBook Pro models with function keys, according to an internal memo distributed to Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers late last week obtained by <a href="http://www.macrumors.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>MacRumors</em></a>. Per the memo:</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The majority of third-party security products for Apple products have long been susceptible to being tricked into thinking malicious code is approved by the tech giant, according to new research from security researchers at software company Okta.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has released more info on the upcoming Apple Books app (formerly iBooks) for iOS that’s coming this fall. Previewed at last week’s Worldwide Developers Conference last week, it’s been entirely redesigned and will arrive with the launch of iOS 12 this fall.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has filed for a patent (number 9,998,88) for “easy location sharing” via the Messages app on its macOS, iOS, and watchOS devices. Per the invention, an Apple device detects a location-sharing request from a first participant of a message conversation to share first participant location information with a second participant. </p>