Dennis Sellers

<p class="">The late Steve Jobs once said that what makes Apple products special is that the company makes the hardware and software. Of course, that wasn’t entirely true. The big exception to the statement is that the Mac relies on processors from Intel.</p>

<p class="">In a note to clients — as noted by <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacRumors </a>— Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple will launch a 24-inch iMac with a new design in the fourth quarter of 2020.</p>

<p class=""><a href="https://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple-stock-hits-record-high-apple-wwdc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Investor’s Business Daily </a>says Wall Street analysts were impressed by Apple's Monday announcements — especially the news that the tech giant was starting a two-year transition to move its entire Mac line to processors and graphics processing units the company itself developers. Apple’s stock on Tuesday jumped to its second record high in as many days.</p>

<p class="">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,687,592) for a woven watchband with a built-in display.</p>

<p class="">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,694,629) for a “system with multiple displays.” It involves an iPad stand that would allow two tablets to be used together, mounted on a tripod, mounted on a vehicle dashboard, and more.</p>

<p class="">SANDMARC has launched a RGB and bi-color lighting system for the iPhone: the <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2838899-1&h=991529306&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandmarc.com%2Fpages%2Fprolight&a=Prolight%C2%A0Collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Prolight Collection</a>.</p>

<p class="">At this week’s (virtual) 2020 Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a line-up of new technologies for its 23 million developers.</p>

<p class="">macOS Big Sur will be version 11, not 10.15.6 or 10.15.7 or … well, you get the idea. The most current version of macOS is macOS 10.15.5.</p>

<p class="">Apple previewed tvOS 14 today at the virtual Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. Cindy Lin, director of Program Management, Apple, says it’s getting a brand new Home app for the Apple TV set-top box.</p>

<p class="">Today at WWDC20, Apple offered a first look at <em>Foundation</em>, the upcoming Apple Original drama series based on the award-winning Isaac Asimov novel series of the same name.</p>

<p class="">With iOS 14, AirPods will gain the ability to seamlessly switch between Apple devices with automatic device switching. However, what I find just as exciting — if not more so — is that spatial audio with dynamic head tracking brings a theater-like experience to AirPods Pro.</p>

<p class="">At the virtual Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple previewed iOS 14 (which wasn’t renamed “iPhone OS” as rumored), which saw a major update to Home Screen pages with redesigned widgets and the App Library, a new way to tap into the App Store with App Clips, updates to Messages, and more.</p>

<p class="">Apple has previewed <a href="http://apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview/">watchOS 7</a> with enhanced customization tools and new health and fitness features for the Apple Watch.</p>

<p class="">Cool Holdings — the parent company of Simply Mac, the largest Apple Premier Partner in the U.S. — is reopening of its Sunrise, Florida store, which was closed temporarily as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>

<p class="">Julianne Moore will play a con artist in the latest team-up for Apple and A24., according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julianne-moore-play-con-artist-sharper-apple-a24-1299586" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.</p>