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September 19, 2013, 11:35 AM

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Sam Grobart / Businessweek:

Apple Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share—and the New iPhones — Apple's doomed. — This is what you hear and read. Sure, it was a hell of a run—iPhone, iPad, all that—but it's about to end, and fast. If you need any proof, just look at China: the world's largest smartphone market …

USA Today:

Jony Ive: The man behind Apple's magic curtain — The reclusive and prolific Jony Ive, the man behind the Apple iPod, meets with USA TODAY for a rare interview about Apple's once and future mission — CUPERTINO, Calif. - The man who designed the iPod ponders the question with furrowed brow.

More: 9to5Mac and Business Insider. Tweets: @sfiegerman and @sammywalrusiv

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says The Windows/Mac Comparison To Android/iOS Doesn't Fit — In a new interview published by Businessweek this morning, wherein Sam Grobart sits down with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and SVPs Craig Federighi and Jony Ive, Cook comments on a number of things …

More: Business Insider

Brad Reed / BGR:

Apple CEO Cook: ‘We never had an objective to sell a low-cost phone’ — Tim Cook is sorry if you're disappointed that the iPhone 5c isn't a budget phone aimed at consumers in emerging markets but he never meant to give you the impression that it would be. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek …

More: Yahoo! News

Dann Berg / The Verge:

HP's new gesture-control laptop is the first with Leap Motion — Touchscreens are now fairly standard in Windows 8 notebooks, but HP's new Envy 17 Leap Motion SE has integrated yet another type of input: touchless. The Envy has Leap Motion's gesture recognition technology built directly into the palmrest …

More: Engadget, Inquirer, PC World, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Technology Chronicles and Electronista

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

HP fills out its tablet lineup with four Android slates and two Windows models — When HP announced its first Android tablet, the Slate 7, we were surprised (and a little disappointed) to see the company attacking the low end of the market. Where were the high-end tablets, we wondered?

More: hp.com, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, The Verge, GigaOM, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, The Verge, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @m4tt

BBC:

Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85 — Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman credited with transforming Nintendo into a world-leading video games company, has died aged 85. — Mr Yamauchi ran the firm for 53 years, and was its second-largest shareholder at the time of his death.

More: GeekWire, GigaOM, Digits, WebProNews, The Verge, Gamasutra, I4U News, MTV Multiplayer and destructoid

Tweets: @bbcnewsus and @zeigor

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft now offers up to $350 in iPhone/iPad trade-in promotion, adds Android and BlackBerry devices — Microsoft ups the ante on its iPhone, iPad trade-in promotion — Summary: A new Microsoft Corporate Buyback promotion, seemingly open to anyone, allows users to get up to $350 to use …

More: GeekWire, MSDN Blogs, InvestorPlace, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, The Next Web, Digital Trends and WinBeta

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride — Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made. More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history.

More: Cult of Mac. Tweets: @panzer. Thanks:@panzer

David Pierce / The Verge:

iOS 7 review: a new look or a new beginning?

More: The Switch, BGR, The Register, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, AppleTell, Ars Technica, TechHive, 9to5Mac and LAPTOP Magazine. Tweets: @davezatz

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Before and after: The best iOS 7 app redesigns (Updating)

More: Twitter, The Next Web, Instapaper, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Skype BlogsSkype Blogs, 9to5Mac, Aviary Blog, Medium, Mashable, Foodspotting, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, App Advice and TechHive. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Staples, RadioShack Yank Amazon Lockers from Stores — Staples Inc. (SPLS) and RadioShack Corp. (RSH) have removed Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) lockers from their stores after the partnership failed to meet expectations. — The retailers began testing a system last year in which Amazon shoppers …

More: The Verge, Betabeat, GigaOM, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Digits, SlashGear, Electronista and GeekWire

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner: 102B App Store Downloads Globally In 2013, $26B In Sales, 17% From In-App Purchases — Ongoing trends in smartphone adoption — which this year finally outnumbered the amount of non-smartphones getting purchased — will drive 102 billion app store downloads this year …

More: Gartner, TechHive, eWeek, ZDNet, The Next Web, Guardian and memeburn

Emma Green / The Atlantic:

Watch Mark Zuckerberg Talk With Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet — Below, you can watch the full video of Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet's interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of Facebook, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Full editorial coverage is available …

More: The Atlantic Online, Los Angeles Times, Betabeat, Hillicon Valley, Reuters, Quartz, ABC News, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic Online, Fast Company, The Atlantic Online, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Forbes, CNET, Mashable and Washington Wire. Tweets: @salvomizzi

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Despite Google's protests, the MPAA still says Search is a pirate's paradise — The MPAA isn't buying Google's argument that search isn't keeping pirate sites in business, and now it says it has the data to prove it. Today, the organization published a report analyzing how people got to a series of infringing sites.

More: Guardian, Inquirer, Digits, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, Disruptive Competition Project, Search Engine Land and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Google Glass Not Expected To Reach Europe For Years — Google's slow rollout of Google Glass, not to mention one big technical challenge, means it'll be years before the device is available publicly in Europe. — That's what two reports are saying after Google hosted a show-and-tell about Glass in Brussels on Monday.

More: Examiner, ZDNet, BetaKit, Real Time Brussels, Digital Trends, AndroidHeadlines.com, EurActiv and Softpedia News

Douglas MacMillan / Tech Deals:

Decade-Old StumbleUpon Finds Profits in the Mobile Era — Since StumbleUpon debuted more than a decade ago, the online bookmarking service has never had its breakout Facebook or Pinterest moment. The startup quietly chugged along with a loyal fan base and steady sales trickle.

More: Marketing Land

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

BlackBerry to Slash Its Workforce by Up to 40% — TORONTO—BlackBerry Ltd. is preparing to make deep staff cuts by the end of the year via layoffs that could cost up to 40% of its employees their jobs, people familiar with the matter said. — The layoffs will cut across all departments …

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple quietly doubles cellular app download limit to 100MB — Users can now download over-the-air iTunes and App Store content up to 100MB in size, up from the previous 50MB limit. — Alongside iOS 7's arrival today, Apple has quietly doubled the size of apps users can download while away from Wi-Fi.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, IntoMobile, FierceMobileContent News, I4U News, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Engadget, Touch Arcade, MacNN and Gizmodo. Tweets: @applespotlight

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Killer app: why do anonymous Q&A networks keep leading to suicides? — Ask.fm could have learned from Formspring's mistakes — but didn't — Teens bullied through an anonymous question-and-answer site. A spate of suicides among the young people who used it.

Tweets: @krelnik

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Simplenote reborn: the first great notes app is back — A brand new vision for iOS, Android, Mac, and web — Mike Johnston had an itch. — Simplenote, his once-beloved note-taking app, had been gathering dust for the better part of two years. Johnston had been spending …

More: Simplenote, Lifehacker, TechCrunch and Shawn Blanc

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Ex-Facebookers' Mobile App, Shadow Puppet, Brings Voice Narrative to Photo Sharing — A picture, it has been said, is worth a thousand words. — But what if sometimes that isn't enough? — This occasional deficiency of sorts is the proposition behind Shadow Puppet …

More: SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, TechCrunch and Forbes. Thanks:@davedonohue

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Dish wins again: federal judge in New York refuses to ban Hopper — Judges aren't buying the broadcasters' argument that Hopper ad-skipping tech violates their copyright — Dish and the company's Hopper DVR won another important round against the top broadcasters today.

More: Hollywood Reporter, Techdirt, GigaOM, Electronista and DSLreports. See also Mediagazer

Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry:

BBM Available for Android on September 21 and iPhone on September 22 — That's right BBM fans — the iconic mobile social network will begin rolling out for Android and iPhone customers around the world from September 21. Soon, you'll be able to easily connect with friends on different platforms.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Machinima, YouTube's Giant Gamer Network, Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff — Machinima, one of the biggest networks on YouTube, is laying off 10 percent of its staff. — The game-centric video company said it will let go of 22 of its 206 employees “in connection with Machinima's growth plan.”

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