News items you should check out: March 13 : Apple World Today

Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, occasionally we’ll direct your attention to articles from various other sources worth your time.

° A report from Bloomberg highlights analysts who believe Apple could push another milestone by breaking a $3 trillion market cap.

° AppleInsider says that, following a number of difficulties concerning parcel firm DHL failing to collect Developer Transition Kits from developers in the EU, Apple is publicizing a hotline. 

° Attorneys for an Apple security executive accused of attempting to bribe a sheriff’s office with iPads to get concealed carry permits have called for the corruption probe to be dismissed.

° According to a post on Google’s Chromium blog, Chrome developers recently managed to shrink the memory footprint of background tabs on Mac by up to 8%, or just over 1GB on some systems in version 89 of the browser.

° The Verge says that T-Mobile plans to turn up 5G speed this year and cover 90% of Americans with fast 5G by 2024.

° Impaired shipments of Qualcomm 5G RFIC is expected to lower second quarter smartphone production by about 5%, says the TrendForce research group.