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September 18, 2013, 6:30 AM

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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The iPhone 5s Review  —  For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage.  At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competition.  Indeed that's how the market played out.
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
iPhone 5s is “the best smartphone on the market”  —  A New Touch for iPhone  —  Apple brings out a new top-of-the-line iPhone model every year, but a redesign only every other year.  In the intervening cycles, the company tends to keep the phone's exterior the same, but change the innards and the software.
Myriam Joire / Engadget:
iPhone 5s review  —  Forward-thinking.  It's ironic that Apple's marketing slogan for the iPhone 5s invites us to look ahead to the future when, from the outside, the device looks like a carbon copy of last year's model, the iPhone 5.  But just like any other odd-year iPhone — the “S” …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPhone 5S and 5C  —  The 5C  —  Let's consider the new iPhone 5C1 first, because it's easier to understand.  —  On the inside, it's an iPhone 5, with a few relatively minor upgrades.  (To wit: the cellular antenna now supports more LTE bands and faster LTE speeds, and the front-facing FaceTime camera is better.)
More: GigaOMTweets: @kondrej
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The iPhone 5c Review  —  For years now Apple has followed a rather intelligent waterfall of its products down the pricing stack.  With the arrival of every new iPhone, the previous generation gets a $100 discount from its on-contract price, and the generation before that one is offered for free on-contract.
Nick Heer / Pixel Envy:
iOS 7 Review  —  iOS 7: The Pixel Envy Review  —  A year ago — to the day — I closed my review of iOS 6 by noting that Apple tends to prefer subtler updates: … You can therefore imagine how dumb I feel now, staring at a version of iOS that looks vastly different to those which preceded it.
Alistair Barr / USA Today:
Google looking to replace third-party cookies with new anonymous identifier AdID  —  Google eyes big change in online tracking for ads  —  Google is developing an anonymous identifier for advertising, or AdID, that would replace third-party cookies as the way advertisers track people's …
Joseph Volpe / Engadget:
BlackBerry Z30 official: 5-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2,880mAh battery and BB 10.2  —  If you were paying attention to the late summer leaks, then the BlackBerry above won't strike you as a surprise.  That's because it's the newly announced BlackBerry Z30 …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 5s to be constrained at launch as Apple preps app to check availability  —  While supply for Apple's iPhone 5c has been strong enough to deter complete sell-outs from carrier stores and Apple's own online store, sources say that supplies of the higher-end iPhone 5s will be constrained at launch (as we expected).
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple takes redesigned iCloud.com with iOS 7-like design out of beta  —  Ahead of tomorrow's launch of iOS 7, Apple has taken the wraps off of a brand-new iCloud website.  The new website went into beta earlier this year, and it is completely redesigned to match the simpler …
Lessley Anderson / The Verge:
Machine language: How Siri found its voice  —  Inside the art of making computers talk  —  GM Voices is nestled on a rolling, leafy road in Alpharetta, Georgia, an affluent suburb of Atlanta.  A recording studio specializing in voice-over work, it produces narration for corporate training videos …
Marcus Wohlsen / Wired:
Inside Dropbox's Quest to Bury the Hard Drive  —  With his prototype in hand, Houston made a demo video that he posted to Hacker News, the geek newswire offshoot of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's leading startup accelerator.  Readers voted the video to the top of the site.
More: PoynterTweets: @robinkleinThanks:@akovacs
Matt Brian / Engadget:
Apple offering ‘last compatible version’ of iOS apps for older hardware  —  With iOS 7 arriving tomorrow, Apple is extending some love to the owners of older iOS devices that have been left behind.  New compatibility features, first spotted on Reddit, will now kick into action if you attempt …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Adobe moves into hardware: Project Mighty ‘cloud pen’ and Project Napoleon ruler to launch in 2014  —  At its MAX event in May this year, Adobe revealed that it was experimenting with hardware in the form of ‘Project Mighty’ - an Internet-connected stylus, and ‘Project Napoleon’, an accompanying digital ruler.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Expands Chrome Data Compression Feature On iOS  —  Google has begun expanding access to its Chrome data compression feature to more users, specifically those on iOS devices who have the company's mobile browser app installed.  The feature's existence was announced some time ago …
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