Dennis Sellers

<p>Data from <a target="_blank" href="https://intelligence.slice.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slice Intelligence</a> says the first online sales figures (from its database of over four million shoppers) and reports from early shoppers shows the iPhone 7 Plus is more popular than the iPhone 7. </p>

<p>Apple’s iTunes unit in Japan was ordered to pay some 12 billion yen (about $118 million) in tax by local authorities after underreporting income, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-japan-tax-idUSKCN11M09O" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a>. It’s been paid.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://xqsuperschool.org/challenge">XQ: The Super School Project</a> of Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, is placing $10 million bets on 10 high schools over the next five years designed to spark experimentation nationwide, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/14/100-million-jobs-widow-aims-remake-schools-high-tech-age/90353636/" rel="noopener noreferrer">USA TODAY.</a> Powell Jobs will be in Washington on Wednesday evening to unveil the 10 lucky schools funded through her charity, <a href="http://www.emersoncollective.com/">The Emerson Collective</a>.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Do you often forget where your parked your car in the mall parking lot? If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 10, no problem</p>

<p>Logitech's $59.99 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/k750-keyboard" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 for Mac</a> will tempt you if:</p>

<p>Apple has released a second gold master of macOS Sierra to developers, even though the finished version of the operating system is due next week. </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>Oops. A carrier settings update, associated with iOS 10, is causing some T-Mobile customers to lose their cellular connection in places where they normally have a signal, according to complaints on Apple's support forums. <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/15/t-mobile-users-complain-about-ios-10-carrier-settings-causing-service-blackouts" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a> says it’s confirmed the glitch.</p>

<p>Box ranks highest among fee-based cloud storage service providers and performs particularly well in the price of service, storage capacity, variety of features offered, speed of downloading/uploading files and security factors, according to the J.D. Power 2016 Cloud Storage Satisfaction Report released today. Apple’s iCloud fares less well.</p>

<p>A year after the launch of the Apple Watch established a new benchmark for the worldwide smartwatch market, new smartwatch shipments are expected to see only modest growth for the rest of 2016 due to late-in-the-year and iterative product releases. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.com&esheet=51420437&newsitemid=20160915005309&lan=en-US&anchor=IDC&index=1&md5=42e961a57961258691ff268a11f51d31">IDC</a>) <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.com%2Ftracker%2Fshowproductinfo.jsp%3Fprod_id%3D962&esheet=51420437&newsitemid=20160915005309&lan=en-US&anchor=Worldwide+Quarterly+Wearable+Device+Tracker&index=2&md5=c4eaaf247439d8d0fc8d606ef642bb5f">Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker</a>, total smartwatch shipments will reach 20.1 million units in 2016, an increase of 3.9% from the 19.4 million units shipped in 2015.</p>

<p>Contract manufacturer Magna Steyr still reportedly has roughly a dozen engineersworking on a car at Apple facilities in Sunnyvale, California, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/15/about-a-dozen-magna-engineers-working-on-apples-electric-car-project-titan---report)" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a> and <em>Bloomberg</em>. </p>

<p>Apple has filed for a patent (number 20160264304) with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for a “bag.” More precisely: a paper bag that may include a container formed of white solid bleached sulfate paper with at least 60% post-consumer content.</p>

<p>Apple has <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-says-it-has-sold-out-of-initial-quantities-of-iphone-7-plus/">confirmed</a> initial quantities of the iPhone 7 Plus have sold out — in all colors. The jet black iPhone 7 has also sold out globally.</p>

<p>Apple ditched the headphone jack on the iPhone 7/7 Plus, and it may be planning to do the same with Macs. As noted <a href="https://twitter.com/Dan_Masterson/status/776174747868618752">on Twitter</a>, Apple is surveying some MacBook Pro customers to see if they use the laptop's headphone jack.</p>

<p>A report by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) — as noted <a target="_blank" href="http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Japan-report-finds-Apple-Google-hinder-app-sales-competition" rel="noopener noreferrer">by Nikkei</a> — says Apple and Google engage in practices that undermine competition in the smartphone app market by making the most of their control over distribution channels.</p>