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I am very excited for next week.  No, it is not because of the holiday on Monday (in the United States); it is Wednesday that I am looking forward to.  On Wednesday, September 7, Apple will announce the 2022 line of iPhones, and perhaps also a new Apple Watch and other new products, software, and services.  If the rumors are true, we will see an iPhone 14, a larger version of the iPhone 14 (iPhone 14 Plus? iPhone 14 Max?), an iPhone 14 Pro, and an iPhone 14 Pro Max.  There are conflicting reports about what the new features will be, but I feel safe predicting that the Pro models will have the best iPhone cameras yet.  I'm counting down the hours until the announcement.  And now, the news of note from the past week: Attorney John Voorhees of MacStories reviews Captionista, a simple app for adding subtitles to videos on the iPhone or iPad. In an article for Macworld, Jason Snell discusses what might be coming in a future iPhone ... not necessarily the one being announced in a few days, but in the coming years. David Snow of Cult of Mac discusses using an iPad Pro and the Sidecar feature to make a 5K display even bigger.  Even if you don't read the post, click to see the cover photo with the clever use of desktop wallpaper. Back in 2016, Apple invested $1 billion into a company called Didi, which was basically the Uber or Lyft of China.  Apple even got a seat on the board of directors as a result of the investment.  Now, six years later, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reports that Apple has given up its board seat after the Chinese government is now cracking down on the service and has forced the app to be pulled from mobile stores.  It's a rare bad investment for Apple. Michael Chen of KGTV in San Diego reports on a man who had a horrible accident on a mountain bike that rendered him a quadriplegic.  But he still lived, thanks to his Apple Watch.  Although he couldn't move his body after the crash, he was able to say "Hey Siri, call Peter," and his friend described his location to 911 so that he could be rescued. Kalley Huang and Brian X. Chen of the New York Times report on parents buying Apple Watches for children as young as 8 or even 5 years old. José Adorno of 9to5Mac describes some upcoming HomeKit products from Eve, including new MotionBlinds and a new Eve Light Switch. Ed Hardy of Cult of Mac reports that USB 4 2.0 is coming and will support speeds up to 80 Gbps.  That's very fast.  I don't expect to see USB-C on the new iPhone that Apple will announce next week, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple replace the Lightning port with a high-speed USB 4 2.0 port next year. Hardy also reports that the new Apple TV+ show called Bad Sisters is getting good reviews.  I haven't watched it yet. Long before Siri was our virtual assistant, we had Microsoft's Clippy.  Benjamin Cassidy of Seattle Metropolitan uncovers the history of the paperclip that people loved to hate.  One fact that I did not know: Clippy was designed by Kevan Atteberry using a Mac. If you subscribe to Apple Arcade, starting today you can play a new game from trivia buff and movie star Tom Hanks.  It is called Hanx 101 Trivia, and according to Todd Spangler of Variety, it "features an initial set of some 58,000 questions across a range of categories such as history, science, geography, food, art, business and technology." And finally, while I don't plan to create my own Alter Ego version of myself, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the creative process in this Today at Apple video.  Artist Temi Coker and Apple Creative Pro Anthony meet up at the beautiful Apple Store in Chicago to use the Procreate app on an iPad with an Apple Pencil to add color and style to portrait photos.  This video also reminds me that a cool feature of the Procreate app is the ability to create a video, sped up, of the process of creating a photo, which can be pretty neat:

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