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Dennis Sellers

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.
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Apple shareholders nix proposals for director nomination procedure changes, human rights committee

<p>At its annual meeting (held today), two Apple shareholder proposals <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-shareholders/apple-shareholders-defeat-two-proposals-at-annual-meeting-idUSKCN1FX2GA" rel="noopener noreferrer">weren't approved</a>. Also, CEO Tim Cook downplayed a suggestion that the company might issue a special dividend to shareholders with some of the $285 billion in cash that the company is now able to bring back from overseas.</p>

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ABI Research: Apple, Google offerings pose serious competition to Alexa

<p>In a competitive study of smart home voice control platforms, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.abiresearch.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">ABI Research</a> finds that Alexa currently leads the market. This is due mostly to the market deployment footprint and scale it enjoys. However, Amazon faces well positioned and strengthening challenges to its dominance, especially in multi-language support, according to the research group.</p>

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Verdant Skies is a new, macOS compatible life simulation game

<p>Howling Moon Software has announced <a target="_blank" href="http://verdantskies.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Verdant Skies</a>, its latest game title for macOS and Windows. It’s a $19.99 life simulation game in which you can customize artwork, dialogue, items, crafting recipes and more.</p>

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Apple invention involves a docking station that recognizes gestures and ‘impact’ input

<p>Apple has been granted yet another patent (number 9,891,719) involving a gesture-based user interface (you can see a list of the others <a target="_blank" href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2018/2/6/apple-granted-another-patent-for-a-gesture-based-ui-for-the-mac?rq=gesture" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>). However, this one involves a docking station and, unlike some previous ones, doesn’t seem to involve the Mac. Just iPhones and iPads.</p>

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The Apple Watch tops the Swiss in holiday watch shipments

<p>As this <a target="_blank" href="https://www.statista.com/chart/12878/apple-watch-vs-swiss-watches/" rel="noopener noreferrer">chart by Statista shows</a>, Apple <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-outsold-the-entire-swiss-watch-industry-in-2017-2018-2" rel="noopener noreferrer">shipped more watches</a> during the holiday quarter last year than the entire Swiss watch industry exported, marking the first time Apple topped the entire export output of the industry's traditional home.</p>

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Apple passes ASUS in global laptop marketshare

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.trendforce.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">TrendForce </a>reports that the global notebook shipments for 2017 registered 164.7 million units, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%, higher than previous expectation of 0.7%. And Apple has overtaken ASUS in global laptop marketshare.</p>

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Apple, LG, Valve invest $10 million OLED microdisplay maker, eMagin

<p>Apple, LG, and Valve are making a $10 million investment in eMagin, a small company that makes OLED microdisplays, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-lg-invest-10m-in-oled-microdisplay-maker-emagin/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>CNET</em></a>, which found the info in documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. </p>

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Apple purportedly revamping its operating system development schedule

<p>Apple is revamping its development program to focus more on key features for its operating systems and push others back to 2019, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/how-apple-plans-to-root-out-bugs-revamp-iphone-software" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Bloomberg</em></a>.</p>

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