Dennis Sellers

<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>

<p class=""><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-22/apple-set-to-nix-thousands-of-unlicensed-iphone-games-in-china?sref=MRDu5QV3">Bloomberg </a>reports that Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games lacking government approval from its App Store in China in July.</p>

<p class="">In a note to clients — as noted by <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacRumors</a> — analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple will launch third-generation AirPods with a form factor design "similar to AirPods Pro" in the first half of 2021.</p>

<p class="">In a note to clients — as noted by MacRumors — Apple analyst says the first Macs to sport ARM-based processors will be a 13-inch MacBook Pro and 24-inch iMac. He adds that they’ll arrive in late 2020 or early 2021 at the earliest.</p>

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<p class="">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 this week’s picks.</p>