Dennis Sellers

<p>I’m an engineer by trade, but an overgrown kid all other times. I’ve been wanting a “quality” drone for some time, but the price tag (> $1,000) led me to the low-cost drones on the shelf at the local discount store (<$100). You get what you pay for … low cost drones provide low cost thrills.</p>

<p>Apple’s Macs have been building momentum, and that's finally started to translate into sales, IDC Research Director Linn Huang told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3236161/apple-mac/mac-sales-jump-highlights-purchasing-pattern-change.html" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Computerworld</em></a>.</p>

<p>Another day, another lawsuit. As noted by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.macrumors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>MacRumors</em></a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://corephotonics.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Corephotonics</a>, an Israeli maker of dual-lens camera technologies for smartphones, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus infringe upon four of its patents. The patents relate to dual-lens camera technologies appropriate for smartphones, including optical zoom and a mini telephoto lens assembly.</p>

<p>Minder Softworks has announced Photonium, a minimalist web browser for macOS (10.11 and higher). It offers the unique ability to view photos stored in Apple's Photos app in a separate pane. </p>

<p>Apple is indeed developing augmented reality (AR) glasses that will go on sale as soon as the end of 2019, Jeff Pu, an analyst at Yuanta Investment Consulting, told the <a target="_blank" href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/iPhone-supplier-Catcher-Tech-to-make-augmented-reality-parts)" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Nikkei Asian Review</em></a>. </p>

<p>Apple says the iPhone X will arrive in 13 additional countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa as well as Macau on Friday, Nov. 24.</p>

<p>HITMAN – Game of the Year Edition<em> </em>is now available on the Mac. Developed by Io-Interactive for Windows and consoles, it’s brought to macOS and Linux by Feral Interactive.</p>

<p>Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,811,721) for “three-dimensional hand tracking using depth sequences.” It relates generally to the field of computer vision and machine learning.</p>

<p>Wistron, Apple’s primary assembler in India, is is scouting for about 100 acres of land in Bangalore to expand its facilities, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-07/apple-supplier-is-said-to-plan-india-expansion-in-iphone-push" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Bloomberg</em></a>, quoting unnamed “people familiar with the matter.”</p>

<p>After the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey.html"><em>New York Times</em></a><em> </em>reported that Apple is stashing much of its cash hoard on the small island of Jersey, which typically doesn’t tax corporate income, Apple has issued a statement on its tax payments, as follows:</p>

<p>macOS High Sierra’s Night Shift is a feature brought over from iOS. It helps you reduce the amount of blue light you're exposed to during the evening by shifting the display of a Mac to a more yellow tone.</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>The iPhone X makes Apple more money per unit than the iPhone 8, according to an analysis that found the iPhone X’s parts cost Apple 25% more than the iPhone 8, but that it retails 43% higher, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone/apples-iphone-x-has-higher-margin-than-iphone-8-analysis-idUSKBN1D62RZ?il=0" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Reuters</em></a>. </p>

<p>As noted by <em><a target="_blank" href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/06/ios-11-2-intro-pricing-subscriptions-app-store/" rel="noopener noreferrer">9to5Ma</a>c</em>, Apple is introducing a new Apple App Store pricing feature that allows apps that use auto-renewable subscription pricing to offer special introductory pricing for new customers.</p>

<p>With a Photo score of 101, the Apple iPhone X achieves the best results so far for still images, edging out the Huawei Mate 10 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, the previous joint leaders in DxOMark’s Photo ranking, by one point. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dxomark.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">DxoMark </a>is an industry standard for camera and lens image quality measurements. </p>