Dennis Sellers

<p class="">Apple has announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference virtually, beginning June 22, in the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-developer/id640199958/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Developer app</a> and on the <a href="https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/">Apple Developer website</a> for free for all developers.</p>

<p class="">Huawei overtook Samsung to take the leading position in the Russian smartphone market in the second half of 2019, as consumers flocked to purchase the Chinese telecommunications firm’s affordable handsets. And Apple's iPhone continues to lose market share in the country.</p>

<p class="">Twenty-one of Australia’s 22 Apple Stores will reopen on May 7 at 10 a.m. (local time) following extended closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Apple's updated regional retail webpages. The exception is the Sydney store.</p>

<p class=""><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/05/04/apple-fights-us-government-intervention-in-iphone-copyright-case/#5263ae47681a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forbes</a> reports that Apple is fighting a Department of Justice intervention in its copyright suit against cybersecurity startup Corellium, according to recently unsealed court documents.</p>

<p class="">France says Apple is undermining its effort to fight COVID-19 by refusing to help make its iPhones more compatible with a planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app, reports <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-tech-idUSKBN22H0LX" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a>. The catch is, per the Sellers Research Group (that's me) that French officials want the tech giant to ease up on its privacy-ensuring methods.</p>

<p class="">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,642,356) for a "wearable interactive user interface” that involves an "Apple Glove.”</p>

<p class="">There’s been talk of bendable or flexible iPhones and iPads. How about bendable Mac laptops? Apple has filed for a patent (number 10,642,318) that hints a a variety of flexible products.</p>

<p class="">Let the Apple Car rumors roll on. Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,643,391) for an “immersive virtual display” for a vehicle. And it could use the rumored “Apple Glasses.”</p>

<p class="">On a <a href="http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-20128-apple-earnings-report-discussion-with-mark-fuccio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new episode of MacVoices</a>, Mark Fuccio joins host Chuck Joiner to provide some thoughts on Apple’s April 2020 financial call. Once again, Apple beat the Street’s expectations.</p>

<p class="">In a filing made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple detailed its latest bond sale in the U.S. marketplace. As noted by <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/05/04/apple-raises-8b-bond-sale-as-debt-market-nears-all-time-low" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a>, the joint book running managers (i.e., underwriters) for this bond sale listed in <a href="https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/f599368d-06f0-444a-b0c1-d77a67adf41c.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the SEC filing</a> Goldman Sachs & Company, Bank of America Securities, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley.</p>

<p class=""><em>The Morning Show</em> co-runner, Kerry Ehrin, has signed a new multiple-year deal with Apple that will also see her develop new projects for the company's streaming service, reports <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/05/the-morning-showshowrunner-kerry-ehrin-overall-deal-apple-1202925111/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deadline</a>. She’ll continue to lead the Reese Witherspoon-Jennifer Aniston drama while also developing new projects for Apple TV+.</p>

<p class="">Apple and Broadcom have shot back at the California Institute of Technology's bid to double its $1.1 billion patent jury trial win partly due to alleged discovery misconduct, telling a California federal judge the accusations are unsupported and the school's "ill-founded and already-exorbitant" damages award should be tossed outright, reports <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1269582/apple-rips-caltech-s-bid-to-double-exorbitant-1b-ip-win?attachments=true&nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&read_more=1&utm_campaign=technology&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law360 </a>(a subscription is required to read the entire article).</p>

<p class="">Apple has updated the 13-inch <a href="https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/">MacBook Pro</a> with the new Magic Keyboard and doubled the storage across all standard configurations.</p>

<p class="">Apple wants to beef up the features of its Apple TV app, as evidenced by a new patent filing (number 2020133631) for a “multi-TV user interface.</p>

<p class="">Apple has been granted another patent (number 10,637,017) for a “flexible battery structure” that hints at either/both “bendable" iPhones and iPads or devices with batteries less likely to be damaged if dropped.</p>