Dennis Sellers

<p>Apple has released iBooks StoryTime for the fourth generation Apple TV. It’s a free tvOS app that offers curated children's books with Read-Aloud navigation and illustrations.</p>

<p>If you need to protect your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus from water and other liquids, Dog & Bone’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dogandbonecases.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Splash44 Case</a> is a viable option. </p>

<p>Starting with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, Photos replaced iPhotos on the Mac. If, like my wife, you kept using iPhotos before easing into Photos, you’ve probably got two different photo libraries on your Mac, which can be a pain and a storage hog. Thankfully, you can merge ‘em. To migrate another photo library manually: </p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">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>Parallels has unveiled Parallels Mac Management 5.0 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), which extends <a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/sccm" rel="noopener noreferrer">Microsoft SCCM</a> functionality, offering solution to manage and control both PC and Mac computers.</p>

<p>First, Apple’s AirPods were supposed to ship in “late October.” Then they were moved to later in the year. Then a report from the <em>Economic Daily News</em> (<a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20161101PB200.html">via Digitimes</a>) says that they won’t begin shipping until January 2017. </p>

<p>Apple has been granted yet another patent (number 201603277799) for an augmented reality (AR) display that could be used with an iPhone. The patent is for a “head-mounted display apparatus for retaining a portable electronic device with display.” Similar to patents 8,957,835 and 9,482,869, it’s for VR goggles that would connect to the smartphone (or perhaps an iPod touch) to a GoPro-ish head mount for viewing media on a private display.</p>

<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent out a company-wide memo — obtained by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/read-tim-cooks-email-to-apple-employees-after-donald-trumps?utm_term=.wcJj8g3bz#.it4YxJEo9" rel="noopener noreferrer">BuzzFeed News</a> — addressing employee concerns about the recent, divisive U.S. Presidential race. It reads:</p>

<p>Rain Design’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.raindesigninc.com/products.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">mStand serie</a>s was recently expanded to include stands for the iPad. They’re handy for elevating and supporting the Apple tablet and are especially convenient if you use <a target="_blank" href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2016/1/29/ipad-pro-macbook-duet-display-lots-of-screen-real-estate?rq=Duet%20Display" rel="noopener noreferrer">Duet Display software</a> to use an iPad as a secondary display with your Mac.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k-display?fnode=8a">LG UltraFine 5K Display, </a>which Apple touts as the high-end external display to use with the new MacBook Pros, is “currently unavailable” for order at Apple’s online store. However, Jen Langione, a senior account exec at LG, tells <em>Apple World Today</em> that it will go on sale in early December at Apple Stores in the United States.</p>

<p>The latest smartphone OS sales data from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kantarworldpanel.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kantar Worldpanel ComTech</a> shows 5.2% percentage point U.S. market share increase for iOS during the third quarter of 2016 to 34.2%. Both iOS and Android made gains across most of the EU5 countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom). </p>

<p>SwitchEasy’s GLASS is a new protective case designed specifically for the jet black iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus. Many metal cases on the market require screws to be disassembled. However, GLASS’s patented lock-release mechanism lets you take the phone out of the case with the slide of the button.</p>

<p>Just over a month after launching Apple Pay on the web, new data from SimilarTech — as noted by <a target="_blank" href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/09/apple-pay-web-fifth-most-popular-payment-platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer">9to5Mac</a> — shows Apple has already made it into the top five payment technologies online. </p>

<p>The new MacBook Pro may be controversial (and that’s an understatement), but <a target="_blank" href="http://intelligence.slice.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slice Intelligence </a>reports that in the first five days of availability online, the latest model generated over seven times the revenue that the 12-inch MacBook did during its April 2015 launch. </p>

<p>Up to four million Australians will soon be able to use Apple Pay following a deal Cuscal has made with Apple, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://news.com.au" rel="noopener noreferrer">news.com.au</a>. Cuscal is an independent provider of payment solutions including card and acquiring products, mobile payments, fraud prevention, EFT switching and direct entry.</p>