Dennis Sellers

<p>Apple has overtaken Xiaomi to take fourth place in the Chinese smartphone market, pushing the privately owned Chinese electronics company back to fifth with 13 million units. This comes even as the country’s smartphone market suffers its first-ever decline as shipments fall 4% in 2017.</p>

<p>One year after construction on the first phase of Apple Park was originally scheduled to be finished, the city of Cupertino, California has granted Apple a series of temporary occupancy permits that allow employees to move into parts of the main building of the “spaceship” campus, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/26/apple-finally-gets-cupertinos-permission-to-occupy-parts-of-apple-park-spaceship-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>VentureBeat</em>.</a></p>

<p>Apple has updated its Clips app for iOS devices to version 2.0.2. The upgrade provides a new Apple-designed label and poster for the Chinese New Year.</p>

<p>Apple has started taking preorders for the HomePod. The $349 wireless speaker will ship to users in two weeks, on Friday, Feb. 9.</p>

<p>Google is reportedly planning the biggest satellite launch ever along with SpaceX (which is backed by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk) to provide faster Internet connections to more people around the world, note. Should Apple consider something like this?</p>

<p>Admit it; you suffer from cable clutter. I know I do. Even though I have a 27-inch iMac with lots of internal storage and decent speakers, I have connections to: external speakers, an external hard drive, an iPad, and an iPhone. And, of course, a surge protector to protect all these gadgets.</p>

<p>You can change the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don't remember it.  The password of your user account in macOS High Sierra is also known as your login password. It's the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain changes, such as installing software.</p>

<p>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>“La La Land” writer and director Damien Chazelle has landed a straight-to-series order at Apple for an “innovative” new drama, a source close to production tells <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thewrap.com/damien-chazelle-drama-series-apple-la-la-land/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>TheWrap</em></a>.</p>

<p>Apple’s iPad Pro commercial in which a kid asks, "What's a computer?” <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-whats-a-computer-ad-sparks-anger-2018-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29" rel="noopener noreferrer">is irritating</a> to lots of folks — and that includes me. </p>

<p>The news of Apple rebranding the iBooks Store to Apple Books, and preparing a fresh new entry in the digital publishing landscape, is welcome, says Bradley Metrock, CEO of Score Publishing.</p>

<p>Apple has updated Logic Pro X — its macOS software for professional songwriting, editing, and mixing — to version 10.4. Here’s a list of the new features:</p>

<p>Let the Apple Car talk begin again. The tech giant has expanded its California self-driving test fleet to 27 cars.</p>

<p>Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5% of the total worldwide market, according to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gartner.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gartner, Inc</a>. The two tech giants together consumed $81.8 billion of semiconductors in 2017, an increase of more than $20 billion from 2016.</p>

<p>QuickerTek has announced <a target="_blank" href="http://quickertek.com/product/5tb-nas-hard-drive-upgrade-for-apple-ac-time-capsule/" rel="noopener noreferrer">5TB and 12TB hard drive upgrades </a>for the Apple AC AirPort Time Capsule — which provides only 2TB to 3TB of storage alone. By request, 6 9dBi high performance antennas can also be added to the unit for a boost in wireless power, effectively a three-fold increase in the range of the Time Capsule.</p>