Dennis Sellers

<p>A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that fitness trackers — a category that certainly includes the Apple Watch Series 2 — could hamper your ability to meet your weight loss goals.</p>

<p>You can change the watch faces in watchOS 3 right from your Apple Watch — although it’s easier to do it on your iPhone (but we’ll cover that on Monday).</p>

<p>You can give your iPhone or iPad its own elegant perch with Twelve South's classy HiRise, which is available in a $39.99 standard model and a $59.9 deluxe edition. It's a stylish pedestal of silver brushed metal that works exclusively with the Apple Lightning cable and is small enough to sit anywhere in your home or office. </p>

<p>We're still not able to merge Apple IDs. Is it really that hard forApple to make this happen?</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>Apple’s AirPods don't go on sale until late October, but 12% of U.S. consumers surveyed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch say they intend to purchase ‘em, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-12-of-consumers-intend-to-purchase-2016-9?r=UK&IR=T" rel="noopener noreferrer">Business Insider</a>.</p>

<p>Apple has set up its first R&D center in China in Beijing's Zhongguancun Science Park, according to a statement issued by the Zhongguancun Park Management Committee — and as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160929PD204.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">DigiTimes</a>.</p>

<p>Apple is looking into ways for your Mac and iPad and/or iPhone to work together in new, exciting ways. The company has filed for a patent (number 20160283063) for “content presentation and interaction across multiple devices.”</p>

<p>Consumers have been able to charge their iPhones and iPads away from a wall outlet for years thanks to car adapters and battery banks as small as credit cards. Now we laptop owners can join this club thanks to the $99.99 <a target="_blank" href="http://mycharge.com/products/razorplatinum" rel="noopener noreferrer">myCharge Razor Platinum</a>.</p>

<p>Apple is preparing to update several of its Mac lines in late October, led by a redesigned MacBook Pro, according to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.macrumors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacRumors</a>. I think that’s about right and here’s the prediction of the Sellers Research Firm (that’s me): new MacBook Pros and new iMacs will be announced on Tuesday, Oct. 25. (I hope I’m wrong, and that it’s sooner, but that’s what my crystal ball shows.)</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>Just over two weeks after <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-10/">iOS 10</a> was released to the public, its adoption rate has reached 48.16%, overtaking iOS 9, according to data obtained from Mixpanel's <a target="_blank" href="https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_10/from_date:-3,report_unit:hour,to_date:0" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS 10 adoption tracker</a>, as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.macrumors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacRumors</a>.</p>

<p>Apple and Deloitte <a target="_blank" href="http://apple.com/ipad/business/" rel="noopener noreferrer">have announced a partnership</a> “to help companies quickly and easily transform the way they work by maximizing the power, ease-of-use and security the iOS platform brings to the workplace through iPhone and iPad. </p>

<p><a href="http://cn.sino-mr.com/viewpoint/1219">A report</a> by Sino Market Research says Apple's China offline sales of the iPhone in August dropped 10.8% from a year ago. Market share dropped by 1.1 percentage points to 7.2%, with Apple remaining in the fourth position when it comes to smartphone sales.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">GitTower, which makes the Tower Git client, is celebrating the launch of macOS Sierra with an update of its info site, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.git-tower.com/blog/history-of-macos/" rel="noopener noreferrer">An Illustrated History of macOS</a>.  </p>