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News items you should check out: April 26

Since I can’t cover everything, I’ll often direct your attention to articles of interest. To wit:

° From MacRumors: Apple Store customers in Paris, Berlin, and London shopping for a new iPhone were recently presented with a unique and creative surprise when they saw an AirDrop message appear on the devices that aimed to convince them to purchase a refurbished ‌iPhone‌ instead of a completely new model.

° From The Verge: Apple may be cracking down on apps that no longer receive updates. In a screenshotted email sent to affected developers, titled “App Improvement Notice,” Apple warns it will remove apps from the App Store that haven’t been “updated in a significant amount of time” and gives developers just 30 days to update them.

° From Livemint: Apple supplier Foxconn has suspended production at two factories amid COVID-19 scare.

° From AppleInsider: Apple’s latest “Shot on iPhone” video “Poached” celebrates Singapore’s beloved dish of chicken rice, with Chef’s Table’ creator David Gelb producing the piece on an iPhone 13 Pro.

° From The New York Times: Jon Stewart, who hosts and produces “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” has won the the Mark Twain Prize for humor.

Dennis Sellers

Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.

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