Apple has given us lots to be excited about this week. Yesterday, we saw the big new software updates to the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Apple TV, and HomePod. And this Friday, the new iPhone and Apple Watch models will be available. For people who enjoy using Apple products, it is a very exciting time of the year.
While you are feeling all of those good vibes, I encourage you to pay it forward and do something nice for someone else who can really use your help. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and a leader in the fight against childhood cancer is St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Since St. Jude opened its doors in 1962, the treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80%. And they have so much more that they can do, from helping individual patients they are treating at their facility in Memphis to developing techniques that can be used to treat children around the world.
For the third year in a row, iPhone J.D. is part of the community that is working with the Relay podcast network to raise money for St. Jude. Relay is the network behind some fantastic tech-related podcasts, such as Upgrade, Mac Power Users, Connected, Clockwise, Automators, and so many more. By working together, the end result can be pretty amazing. Since 2019, the Relay community has raised over $3 million for St. Jude.
The process of making a donation is super easy. Simply go to the page, click the big green DONATE button, click one of the two Relay awards options if either interests you (that part is optional, but you can get some fun stuff like stickers and screensavers if you donate more than $60 or $100), then checkout and pay. The whole process takes only seconds, and I guarantee that you will feel so much better knowing that you are part of the solution for families that are directly affected by childhood cancer today and those that will be dealing with it in the future.
I also have a limited special reward for iPhone J.D. readers. I still have some fantastic microfiber cloths with the iPhone J.D. logo on them that I have given away on rare occasions in the past (such as at TECHSHOW 2014). If you donate at least $100, instead of the standard Relay rewards, you can select to receive one of these. They are fantastic for cleaning an iPhone or iPad screen, and I also use one to clean my eyeglasses every day. This is a limited offer because I don't have many of them left and the company that made them doesn't exist anymore, but a few still remain, so donate soon if you want to get one while they last.
Whether you donate $5 or $500, your donation will make a difference. And a special thanks to those of you who have already contributed!
