Apple News and Views for Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Apple News and Views for Wednesday, April 17^th, 2019

 

1. Apple and Qualcomm’s legal battle…has come to an end. Apple and Qualcomm, fighting over Apple’s next cellphone modem, reached a settlement. An Apple iPhone with a Qualcomm 5G modem is expected in 2020. 
2. Wisconsin’s governor wants to renegotiate the Foxconn deal. This deal was touted as bringing thousands of jobs to Wisconsin. It’s not going to happen. 
3. In other news, the President of Foxconn makes noises about running for President of Taiwan. 
4. Back to the Mac. Jason Snell in Macworld opines on  how working on the Mac will change as macOS and iOS share code.
5. Using your iPad as a second display has proven popular. Will Apple integrate it into macOS 10.15? Stay tuned…
6. And in a development straight out of Mel Brook’s classic film The Producers, investors have filed suit against the producer of Nerds, a musical based on the rivalry & friendship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. 

 

Your editor remains stuck in the past, running his late 2011 Mac mini with macOS 10.13.6. He doesn’t plan to upgrade until he pays off his car. By that time, Apple may switch to its own CPU for the Mac. 

 

He would remind his readers itching to upgrade of this. George R. R. Martin of Game of Thrones wrote those books on an antique 486 running MS-DOS. He deliberately disconnected it from the ‘Net. He writes with Wordstar without a spell checker, so the spellings of Westeros do not get flagged.

 

Tom Briant

Editor, MacValley Blog