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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:

Review: The productivity suite formerly known as iWork — Roughly five years ago, Apple released iWork '09. But at the time, a different Apple lived in a different world: (non-Web) iPhone apps had been introduced only six months earlier and all Macs except the woefully underpowered first-gen MacBook Air still had optical drives.

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Matt Turck / TechCrunch:

The Battle For The Connected Home Is Heating Up — Editor's note: Matt Turck is a managing director of FirstMark Capital. Follow him on Twitter at @mattturck. — Almost 15 years ago, a friend of mine at McKinsey spent a few nights writing a document called “The Battle for the Home”.

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