OWC Rover for Apple’s Mac Pro, more — Apple World Today

° Apple has shared two new videos on its YouTube channel in its ongoing “Shot on iPhone” series. From writer/director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash) they involve “making vertical cinema.”

° This September, Microsoft’s Xbox-based game streaming service is scheduled to launch. However, the service won’t be available on Apple’s iPhone and iPad — and that’s due to Apple’s App Store policies, according to Business Insider.

° Reuters reports that the Trump administration said on Wednesday it was stepping up efforts to purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from U.S. digital networks and called the Chinese-owned short-video app TikTok and messenger app WeChat “significant threats.”

° Apple’s surging stock price doesn’t present the strong risk-reward profile it once did, Bank of America analysts said Wednesday. The team led by Wamsi Mohan downgraded Apple to “neutral” in a note, saying the company’s recent rally to record highs faces too many risks to recommend buying more shares.

° Storage might not be the first thing on your mind but it is where you store your data, so it is important to understand it. That’s why Jeff Carlson has updated his Take Control of Your Digital Storage book to further address APFS (Apple File System) features, functions, and issues that you might run into as you dig further into macOS Catalina and move (eventually) to Big Sur. In the first part of the new MacVoices conversation with host Chuck Joiner, he talks about snapshots and their relationship to Time Machine, why some concepts are different when referencing spinning drives vs. SSDs, and some things to understand about buying storage. (Part 1 of 2)