Dennis Sellers

<p class="">In <a href="https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a new blog post</a>, Apple's WebKit team says there are several enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in iOS and iPadOS 13.4 and Safari 13.1 on macOS to address their "latest discoveries in the industry around tracking.”</p>

<p class="">Apple has updated macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and its HomePod firmware.</p>

<p class="">The long-rumored “Apple Glasses” are in development but won’t launch until 2022, according to <a href="https://www.digitimes.com/newregister/join.asp?view=snapshots&" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DigiTimes</a> (a subscription is required to read the entire article), quoting unnamed "industry sources.”</p>

<p class="">According to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/24/apple-card-gets-updated-privacy-policy-on-new-data-sharing-and-more-transaction-detail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TechCrunch</a>, Apple is updating its privacy policy for Apple Card to enable sharing more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, its financial partner.</p>

<p class=""><a href="https://www.zagg.com/en_us/zagg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ZAGG</a> has announced the Slim Book Go and Rugged Book Go for the newly launched Apple 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro. The keyboard solutions feature a protective, lightweight design that boasts backlit, and laptop-style keys.</p>

<p class="">As Americans brace for spending weeks (or months) inside as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, they’re subscribing to additional streaming services, with Disney+ proving to be far and away the most popular choice — and Apple TV+ less so, reports <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielshapiro/2020/03/23/exclusive-disney-sees-huge-subscription-spike-as-homebound-audiences-clamor-for-content/#66b32f0617c4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forbes</a>.</p>

<p class="">Volunteers from Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and other tech companies worked every night for a week to make a website called covidnearyou, reports <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/coronavirus-tracking-site-built-by-amazon-apple-google-volunteers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNBC</a>. The site asks healthy and sick people to share their symptoms.</p>

<p class="">The coronavirus outbreak is expected to lead to a huge reduction in the production of smartphones, potentially falling by as much as 30% in the first half of 2020, according to <a href="http://www.abiresearch.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ABI Research</a>.</p>

<p class="">First it was the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, then the 16-inch MacBook Pro. Apple may have even more plans for its “power users" as evidenced by a patent filing (number 10,602,636) for a “sled, tray, and shelf for a computer data center.</p>

<p class="">Future Apple Watches could have an auxiliary battery pack in a watchband, per a newly granted Apple patent (number 10,599,181).</p>

<p class="">Per <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1255884/ireland-can-t-use-disputed-apple-tax-for-covid-19-pm-says-?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology&read_more=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law360</a> (a subscription is required to read the entire article: Ireland's response to the coronavirus crisis can't use the €14 billion (approximately $15 billion) that the country was ordered to collect from Apple after a state aid investigation, Ireland's prime minister said Monday, rebutting comments from an opposition leader.</p>

<p class="">Apple is <a href="https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=03232020b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">telling developers </a>that the macOS version of your app can now be included in a universal purchase.</p>

<p class="">Apple’s App Store is expanding to 20 new countries in the near future, the tech giant has <a href="https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=03232020a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">informed developers</a>.</p>

<p class="">Apple’s request for its Apple Watches to be excluded from tariffs on Chinese imports was approved by the U.S. Trade Representative, reports <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-23/apple-s-watches-excluded-from-u-s-s-tariffs-on-china-imports?utm_source=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bloomberg</a>.</p>

<p class="">Two reports from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OFx6eMXe2c&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube channel iUpdate</a> and <a href="https://theverifier.co.il/45948/exclusive-apple-tvos-14-kids-mode-screen-time-appletvplus-for-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Verifier</a>, an Israeli site, claim a new version of Apple TV (the set-top box, not to be confused with the Apple TV app or Apple TV+, the streaming service) will come with more storage and, on the software side, a "Kids Mode."</p>