Dennis Sellers

<p>Apple has consistently said it won’t release a touchscreen Mac. After test driving the $199 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.touchscreen.co.th/goods.php?id=9" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zorro Macsk</a>, I think that’s the right decision, at least for now. Described as the “first touchscreen for an iMac,” the solution has been around for a couple of years for a 21-inch Apple desktop, but now there’s a Macsk for the 27-inch all-in-one. </p>

<p>A new piece of Mac malware, dubbed Komplex, has been <a href="http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/09/unit42-sofacys-komplex-os-x-trojan/">discovered by Palo Alto Networks</a>. This malware provides a backdoor into the system, like most other recent Mac malware.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.aetna.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aetna</a> will give some customers and employees discounts on the Apple Watch. Beginning this fall, the health care benefits company will make the Apple smartwatch available to select large employers and individual customers during open enrollment season.</p>

<p>DJI has launched the Mavic Pro, the company’s first personal drone designed to be taken just about anywhere. Small enough to toss in a bag and easy enough to launch quickly whenever the time and place are right, its folding design compresses the entire drone to practically the size of a water bottle.</p>

<p>Honeywell’s new Lyric T5 Wi-Fi thermostat is the latest of the company’s home products to have Apple HomeKit compatibility for control using voice with Siri, or the new Apple Home app in iOS 10. HomeKit is a framework that allows control of compatible home automation devices through iOS and Siri.</p>

<p>Apple's iPhones and iPads have the highest electromagnetic radiation specific absorption rate (SAR) of electronic devices sold in South Korea, according to Choi Myung-gil of the country's telecom committee — as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/iphones-emit-double-the-radiation-of-galaxy-handsets-korean-agency/" rel="noopener noreferrer">ZDNet</a>. </p>

<p>Customer satisfaction with personal computers halts a three-year slide, according to new data from the <a href="http://www.theacsi.org/">American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)</a>. The ACSI Household Appliance and Electronics Report 2016 includes desktops, laptops, and tablet computers, as well as household appliances, televisions and computer software.</p>

<p>Two Apple patents have popped up that could — and let me emphasize COULD — be related to the Project Titan project, which is rumored to involve an Apple car.</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>Future Macs may watch you watching them. Let me explain. Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,454,225) for “gaze-based display control.” It involves a method for receiving an image such as the eye of someone looking at a Mac, and identifying, based the image of the eye, a direction of a gaze performed by the user. </p>

<p>If you like Just Mobile’s AutoHeal screen protector for the iPad Pro you’ll also appreciate the company’s <a target="_blank" href="http://usa.just-mobile.com/tenc-iphone7.html#.V-LvjTKZNBw" rel="noopener noreferrer">TENC</a>, a near-invisible, “self-mending” case for the iPhone 7/7 Plus. </p>

<p>Disruptive technologies like touch sensitive screens and smart glass everywhere will be one of the larger competitive issues for Apple in the not-too-distant future. However, purchasing a smart glass manufacturer -- perhaps even Corning itself-- would give Apple a competitive advantage for an "iOS everywhere" type approach. </p>

<p>The current Mac lineup relies on AMD graphics;  however, a switch to Nvidia could be in the works for the MacBook Pro and other Macs, if new job listings from the GPU maker is any indication.</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>So far Apple’s HealthKit has mostly collected fitness data from its devices, however, in the future, the software may interpret that information, turning it into advice for users, doctors and others, according to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-26/apple-said-to-expand-healthkit-from-tracker-to-diagnosis-tool?utm_content=tech&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bloomberg</a>.</p>