Steve Sande

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I love my Apple Watch Series 3, so I keep it charged up by placing it on a charger every morning for about twenty minutes. That usually keeps it "topped off", but about once a week I need to charge it a bit longer to get it powered up to 100% capacity. Since I'm not always near my Watch charger when the need strikes, a portable Apple Watch Charger seems like a great idea, which is why the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CQ3QXHG/appwortod01-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MOFUU Portable Wireless Apple Watch Charger</a> ($36.99, Amazon Affiliate) is now on my keychain.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Passwords. Can't live with 'em, can't do anything on the Internet without them. Security experts tell us to use strong unique passwords and change them frequently, which makes keeping track of all of those random strings a real problem. We have just the solution: <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/password-boss-premium-lifetime-subscription-3-devices-2?utm_source=appleworld.today&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=password-boss-premium-lifetime-subscription-3-devices-2_080618&utm_term=scsf-296288&utm_content=a0x1a000003nnID&scsonar=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a lifetime subscription to Password Boss Premium (3 devices) for $19.99</a>. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I love my Apple AirPods. They're comfortable, offer great sound quality, and pair with all of my devices easily. But there's one problem; that little "Tic Tac box" charger case has a tendency to get lost. My cats have found that it makes a good toy to bat around, it hides in the bottom of my backpack or laptop bag, and all in all that little case acts as if it's trying to play "Hide and Seek" with me. <a href="https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/airsnap" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twelve South's AirSnap AirPod case</a> ($29.99) is a perfect way to keep your AirPods from being lost.</p>

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<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Although there were a few premature announcements earlier this morning, Apple officially became the first publicly-traded corporation to reach a $1 trillion market cap by reaching a brief high share price of $207.05. Shares in AAPL are now bobbling around the $206.88 - $207 range, so the company might not be celebrating its trillion-dollar baby at the end of the day.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">MacBook users looking for a speedy way to transfer media from SD and micro-SD cards can stop searching: Satechi today announced its <a href="https://satechi.net/collections/usb-type-c/products/aluminum-type-c-uhs-ii-micro-sd-card-reader-adapter?variant=12162786001010" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aluminum Type-C UHS-II Micro/SD Card Reader</a> ($39.99) that works perfectly with the USB-C-based MacBook and MacBook Pro models shipped over the past several years.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As if things aren’t hard enough for many Apple websites, Apple today announced that since they’re doing such a bang-up job of selling apps through the redesigned macOS and iOS app stores (well, macOS is in beta...), they’re going to screw affiliates who make money by linking to apps. Guess what? We’re one of those affiliates. Here’s the email from the powers-that-be in Cupertino:</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We don’t know what <em>you</em> did on the last night of July 2018, but for Marty Edwards and me, it was time to sit down and chat on another episode of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eMCP7Tkuaw&list=PLVONM6G3hHZgDRX7VgZDDJdqr6pyRPVdk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AWT TV</a>. Previously on the show, we’ve hit on the fact that the best device for a particular job might not be from Apple, and on last night’s show Marty confessed that he no longer uses an iPhone, having migrated to a Samsung Galaxy S9 instead.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">What was Apple thinking when it put the AirPods into a boring white case? Fortunately, there are aftermarket accessory producers like Air Vinyl Design, which has come out with <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/classic-series-leather-airpod-case-black?utm_source=appleworld.today&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=classic-series-leather-airpod-case-black_080118&utm_term=scsf-295709&utm_content=a0x1a000003nlpt&scsonar=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European leather AirPod cases</a> that are perfect for making your AirPod case more appealing! For just $17.99, you get a nice looking leather case in a variety of colors, using vegetable-tanned vintage leather on the outside and a rigid, impact-resistant plastic frame on the inside.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Services growth is driving Apple's continuing financial success, with a whopping 31 percent increase in services revenue year over year. These services include digital content and services, AppleCare, Apple Pay, licensing and other services. One of the pieces of that services pie that was only noted in a footnote on the Summary Data was a $236 million cash injection that appears to be a result of the final resolution of the Samsung lawsuit.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">One other fascinating number out of today's Apple earnings call shows that the slide in iPad sales appears to have been halted. The entire tablet sector had been weak for the past several years, and unit sales of the iPad were indicative of the condition of the entire tablet market. This last quarter, though, iPad sales jumped 27 percent over the previous quarter and 1 percent over the same quarter in 2017. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">One number jumped right out of the Apple Q3 Summary Data this afternoon: the fact that iPhone unit sales were only up 1 percent year over year, but revenues were up 20 percent. Why is that important? It's showing that the iPhone X is having an incredible impact on iPhone revenues.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple World Today has reviewed a number of robotic, app-controlled vacuums over the years. One of my favorites is the <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2017/8/3/tidying-up-with-the-iphone-controlled-ecovacs-deebot-n79-vacuum-cleaning-robot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ecovacs Deebot N79</a>, which was updated earlier this year with Amazon Alexa compatibility to become the <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2018/4/30/ecovacs-deebot-n79s-loves-alexa-snubs-siri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deebot N79S</a>. Both of those vacuums are quiet, powerful, and can be controlled from an iPhone app. So how can you make a good robot vacuum better? Give it the ability to mop floors as well! That's what the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B077YNTG9K/appwortod01-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ecovacs Deebot Ozmo 601</a> ($349.98 via Amazon, affiliate link) can do, and to give it a workout, I decided to test it against the traditional kind of house cleaners -- humans.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's another "smartish" product from the folks at Silk. Over the years they've come up with some great products to keep your Apple devices protected; now they have released the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BB5MBZ9/appwortod01-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Cable Wrangler</strong></a> ($19.99), a really smart gizmo that keeps your Lightning charging cables from dangling all over the place.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">When it comes to Lightning cables, Apple's offerings don't hold up too well to repeated usage and the company charges at least $19 for a replacement -- $29 if it's a 2 meter cable. We have a deal on <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/syncwire-unbreakcable-mfi-lightning-3-3-feet-black?utm_source=appleworld.today&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=syncwire-unbreakcable-mfi-lightning-3-3-feet-black_073018&utm_term=scsf-295708&utm_content=a0x1a000003nlpo&scsonar=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Syncwire's UNBREAKcable</a> ($10.99) in a 3.3 meter (almost 11 feet) version that may very well be the last Lightning cable you'll need to purchase. </p>