Dennis Sellers

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Extra charges for the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus on China's black market are a lot lower than last year when the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were released thanks to Apple's efforts to increase stock and shorten shipping time, the Chinese language news portal, <em>DoNews </em>reports.</p>

<p>If you do a lot of template-based document creation but find the templates that come with Apple's Pages is too limiting, check out Publisher Plus from PearlMountain Technology. It's available for US$19.99 at the <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/q5jyl7q" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mac App Store</a> in the Graphics & Design category.</p>

<p>Apple has released iOS 9.0.1. It's a maintenance release that addresses several issues, including (per Apple):</p>

<p>With the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/" rel="noopener noreferrer">iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus</a> due to arrive Friday, T-Mobile has unveiled an US$5 a month for the iPhone 6s and $9 a month for the iPhone 6s Pluswith JUMP! On Demand and trade-in of an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus. Unfortunately, those prices are for the 16GB models, which have a paucity of storage.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Fifty-one of Apple Pay users are "extremely satisfied," compared to 32 percent of contactless card users who said the same, <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/nmsmth4" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to new data</a> from eDigitalResearch. The research group's study shows that over a third (40 percent) of shoppers who have an Apple device have used Apple Pay to pay for goods or service</p>

<p>If you longingly remember the heyday of digital albums, you're the person for whom Turntable for Mac. It's a "real album" app for Mac OS X and is available at the Mac App Store for US$14.99. (A demo is available at the <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/nn63wuk" rel="noopener noreferrer">product web site</a>.)</p>

<p>Apple plans to start selling its smart watch in Brazil in October, according to <em>InfoMoney</em>, a web portal based in Brazil that covers financial and business news. However, it's going to be expensive.</p>

<p>Apple’s redesigned company store opened this past weekend in Cupertino, California. Among the changes — according to <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/npzu9p7" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacMagazine</a> — the store will sell, for the first time, the iPhone, iPad, Macs, and Apple Watch along with a new collection of Apple-branded merchandise including clothing, mugs, and other collectibles.</p>

<p>Apple, the Japanese market leader, saw its share of Japan's smartphone market, drop from 51.1 percent to 39.1 percent in the second quarter, reports <em>MK Daily Economy</em>, a daily newspaper based in Seoul. Meanwhile, Samsung's share of Japan’s smartphone market hit 12%, up from 5.2 percent in the first quarter.</p>

<p>Apple says that, as expected, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/" rel="noopener noreferrer">the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus</a> will be available at 8a.m. local time on Friday, Sept. 25 at Apple’s retail stores. What's more, in a press announcement,  Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, says that "iOS 9 is also off to an amazing start, on pace to be downloaded by more users than any other software release in Apple’s history."</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">I love living in Nashville, Tennessee. But I can't help but be a little jealous of another city a few miles down the road: <a target="_blank" href="http://chattanoogagig.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>, which has implemented super-fast, publicly owned Internet via its Electric Power Board (EPB). The city offers 1 Gigabit-per-second Internet speed to every home and business throughout the community.</p>

<p>Apple told <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/nvmc4rz" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a> that it's cleaning up its Apple App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the online store.</p>

<p>Apple executives have reportedly discussed their plans for an “autonomous vehicle” with officials at California’s department of motor vehicles (DMV).</p>

<p>At its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference Apple held a session about support for dedicated third-party gaming controllers for iOS devices as part of its MFi Program (“Made for iPhone/iPod/iPad”). At the time I thought it might mean better game controller support for the Mac, but so far that hasn't happened.</p>

<p>If you need a cool desk lamp to go with your Mac desktop set-up — or anywhere else in your home or office — the <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/qfr5dxr" rel="noopener noreferrer">Satechi: Flexible LED Desk Lamp</a> looks good, works great, and even sports a USB port.</p>