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Wednesday Highlights: Barron's tackles Apple Arcade and "Apple's quest to own entertainment"; Apple further engages EU in court over back taxes in Ireland; class action allowed to proceed against Apple in which customers accuse company of using inferior refurb replacements when fulfilling AppleCare claims; Macworld reviews Parallels Desktop 15 for macOS; has Apple produced a Truman Show (not for Apple TV)?; Reuters spoke with Apple's Lisa Jackson on company use and recycling of rare earth elements for parts in iPhone; Apple Watch Series 5 reviews are in and there are lots of 'em down in our Reviews section including from John Gruber, TechCrunch, Hodinkee, Dieter Bohn; DxOMark announces new camera protocol scores for Wide and Night modes on smartphones.
"Apple Arcade Launches Tomorrow. What That Means For Apple's Quest to Own Entertainment." Barron's [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:15 AM
"Apple Fights 'Phantom' Units Claim in $14 Billion EU Court Clash" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:12 AM
"Losing the Apple Battle Might Help Win the Tech Tax War: If the European Commission loses its $14 billion case against Apple, calls to overhaul the global tax regime will be difficult to ignore." Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:13 AM
"Apple Buyers Win Class Cert. Over Refurbished iPhone Parts" Law360 [Paid Membership Required] 7:56 AM
"Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 92 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements" MacRumors 1:26 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Mojave 10.14.6 can still panic MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018 and 2019 models" Eclectic Light Company 8:07 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac review: Metal makes this one for the gamers/Now with improved launch times, graphics improvements, and automatic monitoring of storage, CPU, RAM, and video memory." Macworld 8:37 AM
"How to make sure your sent email is copied to the right location in Mail: You can store your Sent mailbox on a server or in a Sent folder on a device." Macworld 8:37 AM
"How to check which version of macOS your Mac computer is running in 3 simple steps" Business Insider 1:23 PM
"How to display the size of an app's frontmost window" The Robservatory 1:24 PM
"'We Could Say Anything To Each Other': Bob Iger Remembers Steve Jobs, The Pixar Drama, And The Apple Merger That Wasn't" Vanity Vair 4:03 PM
"Bob Iger: If Steve Jobs Were Alive, We Would Likely Have Combined Apple and Disney" MacRumors 4:04 PM
"Bob Iger: Disney and Apple likely to have merged if Steve Jobs was alive/Disney CEO Bob Iger in an upcoming memoir says he believes his relationship with late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs would have led to a merger between their companies, similar to Disney's assimilation of another Jobs company, Pixar." AppleInsider 5:20 PM
"Which New iPhone Features Are the Most Tempting to Buyers?" PC Magazine 7:32 AM
"Analyst thinks the 256GB iPhone 11 Pro is the most popular of the new iPhones" iMore 8:17 AM
"iPhone 11 pricing shores up pre-orders in Taiwan" DigiTimes 8:37 AM
"Wedbush: Apple Can Beat iPhone Delivery Estimates Of 70M" Benzinga 10:50 AM
"Apple's VP of communications is leaving the company: Steve Dowling, who has headed Apple's communications for the last five years, is leaving after 16 years at the company." Recode 2:51 PM
"Apple's VP of communications, Steve Dowling, is leaving Apple after 16 years" iDownload Blog 3:12 PM
"Apple's Investment in India: Did Trump Compel It?" Market Realist 8:14 AM
"Apple is trying to trademark 'Slofie'" The Verge 11:19 AM
"Apple Files Trademark Application for 'Slofies'" MacRumors 11:47 AM
"Stop laughing! Trademark application suggests Apple was serious about 'Slofie'" Digital Trends 2:30 PM
"'Helpsters' and 'Ghostwriter' AppleTV+ trailers now available" AppleInsider 8:54 AM
"Today in Apple history: iOS 7's major redesign divides fans" Cult of Mac 8:38 AM
Non-Apple News
"Google Watch was canceled at the last minute way back in 2016" SlashGear 10:09 PM
"NBCUniversal will shut down its game publishing business" VentureBeat 8:54 PM
"Huawei promises smartest 5G phone, but who will be brave enough to buy?" Reuters 8:55 PM
"AT&T reportedly considers offloading its DirecTV satellite unit: The deal hasn't worked out as well as planned." Engadget 7:04 PM
"Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg would lose billions under Elizabeth Warren's tax plan" Business Insider 11:19 AM
"Fossil hybrid smartwatch leaks online with 2-week battery life" Android Central 10:21 AM
"7 things to know about the augmented reality landscape" VentureBeat 8:46 AM
"Google canned Pixel watches at the last minute in 2016 because they were crap" Android Police 9:26 AM
"Google search can now point you to the exact part of a video you need" The Verge 8:43 AM
"Protocol found in webcams and DVRs are fueling a new round of big DDoSes" Ars Technica 8:27 AM
"Facebook still auto-generating Islamic State, al-Qaida pages" Associated Press 9:28 AM
"Facebook Really, Really Wants To Open A Portal Inside Your House" BuzzFeed News 8:06 AM
"Facebook Portal security concerns laid bare as company admits humans can listen in" Telegraph 8:05 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"#312: Nerdy, Technolust Folks/Our favorite smartphone photos, our thoughts on selfies, what we still want from the Apple Watch, and whether we think Night Mode on the new iPhones is a gimmick or a great new feature." Relay FM: Clockwise 2:33 PM
"Stacktrace Podcast 054: 'A whole wardrobe full of hats', with special guest David Barnard" 9to5Mac 1:21 PM
"Review: Sonos Move/We took a Sonos speaker on its first trip outside the house and off of Wi-Fi." Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:53 AM
"Review: Sonos Move portable speaker with Bluetooth delivers great design, functionality, and adaptive sound for any environment" 9to5Mac 8:45 AM
"Sonos Move review: house shaker, not road warrior" The Verge 8:43 AM
"Sonos Move review: Glorious audio performances at home and on the road" TechHive 8:37 AM
"Review: Sonos Move is the do-it-all AirPlay 2 speaker you've been looking for" AppleInsider 8:37 AM
"Orico USB 3.1 NVMe SSD enclosure review: Fast, easy, and affordable" PCWorld 10:09 AM
iOS Apps
"Apple Arcade Hands On Video Walkthrough" AppAdvice 2:45 PM
"Tonic app wants to show you to the unexplored, nontoxic corners of the internet again" CNET 8:26 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to prepare your Apple Watch for watchOS 6: Before you download watchOS 6, there are a few cleanup steps you should take to get ready for the big download." iMore 8:52 PM
"How to charge either Apple Pencil model with your iPad, and what to do if it won't charge" Business Insider 2:44 PM
"How to Ignore Robocalls on Your iPhone" Digital Trends 8:36 AM
"How to back up your iPhone without missing these tricky steps" CNET 8:25 AM
Tips
"iOS 13 Release Time in Your Time Zone" iPhone Hacks 10:12 PM
"iOS 13 Download Release Time In Your Region Time Zone" Redmond Pie 9:03 AM
"8 great iOS 13 features coming later this fall" Apple Must 8:36 AM
"13+ things you'll want to try first when you upgrade to iOS 13" Computerworld 7:55 AM
"There may be a huge Apple Watch upgrade cycle on the horizon" BGR 8:56 PM
"7 reasons you should stick with your iPhone X instead of upgrading to the iPhone 11 Pro" Business Insider 11:47 AM
"The History behind Apple's Irish Offices" Tech.pinions [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:52 AM
"iPhone 11 Pro sample photos have really whetted my appetite" 9to5Mac 10:00 AM
"Apple: European Commission doesn't understand our business" Cult of Mac 9:58 AM
"Apple TV Plus will be bigger than Netflix, if Apple does a billion things just right: Thanks to Apple's year-long free trial program, Apple TV Plus has the potential for incredible reach. But can Apple sustain that reach after the year is up? Here's what Apple might be thinking." ZDNet 9:04 AM
"Apple's New iPhone Is More Proof You Might Not Need to Upgrade Your Smartphone" MarketWatch [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:14 AM
Non-Apple
"Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph on the company's earliest days, the streaming wars, and moving on" TechCrunch 8:50 PM
"Everything we know about the Pixel 4, the most-leaked phone ever" The Verge 1:21 PM
"The OPPO Reno 10x Zoom Review: Bezeless Zoom" AnandTech 10:01 AM
"IBM's new 53-qubit quantum computer is its biggest yet: The system will go online in October." CNET 8:27 AM
"IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer" TechCrunch 8:54 AM
"IBM aims to scale quantum computing with new center, 53-qubit system: With the fleet expansion, IBM is hoping to build out the ecosystem for quantum computing research and commercial applications." ZDNet 7:32 AM
"IBM Collaborates With City of Los Angeles to Fight Cybercrime" Zacks 9:57 AM
"IBM: Outperforming Other Cloud Players" Seeking Alpha 7:46 AM
"HP's Unveils Elite Dragonfly Laptop: 13.3-Inch Convertible With a 24.5 Hour Battery Life" AnandTech 8:06 AM
"HP's Latest Notebook Is a Really Light Business Laptop" Thurrott 8:07 AM
"HP introduces two curved monitors and Elite Dragonfly laptop with 24.5-hour battery life" VentureBeat 8:43 AM
"HP's new Elite Dragonfly business laptop has mass appeal" The Verge 8:42 AM
"HP Launches Their S430c 43.4-Inch Ultrawide Curved Display" AnandTech 11:47 AM
"Microsoft to improve Azure networking with private links to multi-tenant services" The Register 8:58 AM
"'Apple a value stock?' The Great Rotation takes a strange spin" MarketWatch 9:00 AM
"Could Apple and Microsoft Lead a Market Rally?" Market Realist 8:08 AM
Industry News
"U.S. stocks close mixed after Fed cuts rates but casts doubt on future stimulus: Fed cuts interest rates but possibly last for last time this year" MarketWatch 4:05 PM
"Dow Ends Up After Fed Lowers Interest Rates; Oil Prices Slide: Stocks ended mixed Wednesday after the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's policy-making body, said it would lower the overnight lending rate to a target range of 1.75% to 2%." TheStreet 4:05 PM
"Stock Market Finishes Mixed After Fed's Quarter-Point Rate Cut; Fedex, Adobe, Roku Take Big Hits" Investor's Business Daily 4:05 PM
"Stocks charge into positive territory after Fed cuts rates" FOXBusiness 4:05 PM
"U.S. Stocks Climb Back as Investors Digest Fed Rate Cut: Fed officials signal they are divided on prospect of further rate cuts; S&P 500 flat after bouncing off lows" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:05 PM
"Asian markets flat ahead of Fed interest-rate decision: Nikkei, Hang Seng largely unchanged ahead of expected rate cut" MarketWatch and Associated Press 8:59 AM
"European stocks nudge higher ahead of Fed, led by banks and insurers" MarketWatch 9:00 AM
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