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Forget “Cheap”, The iPhone 5c Is Clearly The iPhone Jony Ive Wanted For iOS 7 — The “c” in the iPhone 5c title doesn't stand for “cheap”. It stands for “clueless”. — As in, we were all clueless in our speculation on Apple's motivations for creating this device.
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Thoughts and Observations on Today's iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction — I got this one wrong. — I fixed my thinking by this week, but as of a month ago, I had it wrong when I wrote “The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone”. — Here's the thing. The iPhone 5C has nothing to do with price.
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
C is for Core — My assumption going into this, sixth iteration, of the iPhone was that we would see the expansion of the iPhone into two distinctly positioned products: a low-end C and a high-end S. The assumption was based on what what we saw with the iPad: the regular iPad and the mini iPad.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Apple TV Software Refresh Coming September 18 — Nope, Apple didn't show off new Apple TV hardware yesterday. — And Apple didn't talk about new software for its Web video box, either. But it's still coming. — People familiar with the company's plans say Apple TV is scheduled …
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Motorola now shipping 100,000 Moto X phones weekly from Texas — (Reuters) - Motorola is shipping 100,000 of its new Moto X phones weekly from a manufacturing facility near Dallas, a modest start for a made-in-the-USA phone that marks the most significant effort to revive the iconic company after Google Inc bought it last year.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Made in America: a look inside Motorola's Moto X factory — An old Nokia facility has been resurrected to crank out 100,000 new smartphones per week — The Moto X is a return to form for Motorola, and it represents the first device the it has produced from start to finish as a Google company.| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Investors unimpressed with incremental iPhone improvements as Apple's stock falls 2.28% — Apple's Reputation for Innovation Is Now Its Greatest Liability — A year ago, Apple seemed unstoppable. Its share price topped $700. Its cash horde eclipsed the GDP of many countries.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
China Licenses Apple's iPhone With China Mobile's Wireless Standard — BEIJING—A Chinese regulator has given the final license necessary for Apple Inc.'s iPhone to run on China Mobile Ltd.'s mobile network, another indication China's largest carrier will soon be releasing an iPhone for the first time.
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
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| Somini Sengupta / NYT Bits: |
Machines Made to Know You, by Touch, Voice, Even by Heart — How does a machine verify the identity of a human being? Irises, heartbeats, fingertips and voices, for starters. — Authentication has been a tough nut to crack since the early days of the Web.| Violet Blue / ZDNet: |
No warrant, no problem: US gov't uses travel alerts for warrantless electronics search — Summary: The ACLU has released documents showing how the US government uses border searches to take citizens' electronics and rifle through private data to its heart's content. — Violet Blue
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms Cards app for iOS is discontinued, recommends iPhoto — We've received multiple tips indicating that Apple's Cards app and service for iOS has stopped functioning. Cards was launched alongside the iPhone 4s in fall 2011 and served as an easy way for users to create custom …
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| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Patent Trolls Are Killing Startups — Except When They're Saving Them — Kate Endress was living the startup dream. Two years out of Stanford's business school, she was running a website, Ditto, that offered a way of trying on glasses without actually trying them on, and the operation … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
DARPA reinvents peer-to-peer for battlefield with tactical “torrents” — A soldier uses a biometric data capture device on patrol in Afghanistan. DARPA's CBMEN project aims to let soldiers share biometric data, images, and other tactical information locally without needing to upload it to a server.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
iOS 7: what's changed since June? — What we're getting next week isn't exactly what we saw at WWDC — Apple's June preview of a huge redesign for iOS — its first since launching in 2007 — drew a fair amount of criticism. Designers took to sites like Dribbble and Behance to show off their …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Introduces New ‘Space Gray’ Colors for iPod Touch, Nano, and Shuffle — Apple today debuted a new “Space Gray” color for the iPhone 5s and has made the color available for the iPod touch, nano, and shuffle as well. In addition to their standard colors, each of these devices …
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