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September 17, 2014, 1:45 PM

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

iPhone 6 better in every way: display, performance, photos, videos, battery life, and network speed — The iPhones 6 — The Big Picture — A few days into testing the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I accidentally left my personal iPhone 5S on a desk next to the iPhone 6 Plus.

More: The Verge, BGR, ParisLemon, Business Insider and MacRumors. Tweets: @stevesi

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iPhone 6 Plus Review: The First Truly Well-Designed Big Smartphone — Apple is launching not one, but two premium smartphones today, and the iPhone 6 Plus is the one many probably were skeptical even existed just a few short months ago. With a screen size measuring 5.5-inches across the diagonal …

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Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

iPhone 6: a great upgrade for iPhone owners, and the best smartphone you can buy

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Reviewed: iPhone 6 is a Thin, Sexy Phone with a Killer Camera

More: Wall Street Journal, eWeek, USA Today, New York Times, BetaNews, Tech Trader Daily, The Loop, TUAW, Mashable, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, CNET and DISPLAYBLOG. Tweets: @panzer

Jason Snell / Six Colors:

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus: A tale of scale

Tweets: @reppep, @counternotions and @nnnnnnnn

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Tech:

iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus: Which Apple Phone Should You Buy?

More: Wall Street Journal

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iOS 8 review: Apple empowers developers with Continuity, iCloud Drive, HealthKit, HomeKit, Pay — iOS 8, thoroughly reviewed — A big, developer-centric update completes the overhaul started in iOS 7. — “Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.”

More: VentureBeat, Computerworld, iMore, CITEworld, BGR, Slate, GeekWire, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Guardian, Gizmodo, TUAW, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews and Electronista

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Releases iOS 8 With Continuity, Third Party Access to Keyboards/Touch ID, Family Sharing, and ‘Health’ App — Apple today released iOS 8 to the public, making the download available to all users who have an iPhone 4s or later, iPad 2 or later, 5th-generation iPod touch, or iPad mini.

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Touch Arcade and TUAW

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple seemingly removing HealthKit compatible iOS 8 apps from App Store due to issues — Several apps began rolling out on the App Store this morning with HealthKit support for Apple's new Health app, but it seems issues on Apple's side have forced HealthKit-compatible apps to be completely removed …

More: MacRumors, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iMore and Electronista

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Developers warn iOS 8 users not to upgrade to iCloud Drive before OS X Yosemite release

More: BGR, Quartz, Business Insider, Laptop Mag, Cult of Mac and Gotta Be Mobile

Bonnie Cha / Re/code:

Apple's QuickType, and third-party keyboards SwiftKey and Swype, make iOS 8 typing easier and faster

More: 9to5Mac, iMore, ZDNet, ZDNet, The Next Web, The Verge, TUAW, GeekWire and TechCrunch

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Foxconn struggles with iPhone 6 demand despite 200K workers making 540K phones/day — Foxconn Struggles to Meet New iPhone Demand — Apple fans may have to wait for weeks to get the new iPhones as Apple's major assembler Foxconn appears to be struggling to boost its production to meet strong demand.

More: 9to5Mac, iMore, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, bizjournals and Electronista. Tweets: @cdhowe

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Amazon leaks smaller, lighter, 300 DPI high-res Voyage Kindle, launching Nov 4th — Kindle Voyage leaks on Amazon with a new way to turn pages — Amazon appears to be preparing to launch new Kindles. Several listings spotted on the German version of Amazon show a new “Kindle Voyage” …

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Initial Apple Watch thoughts: gold version could start at $5K, stainless $1K; unclear how Apple and the market will deal with its technology growing old fast — Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations — Consider Vertu, the company that sells $6,000 Android phones (and which, back in the day, sold $6,000 Symbian phones).

More: stratechery, BGR, Benedict Evans, Forbes, Pocketnow, MacDailyNews, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, Wearable Tech Insider, MacRumors, ParisLemon and VentureBreak

Tweets: @mathewi, @om, @adamludwin and @cdixon

Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:

Peter Thiel: Twitter execs probably smoke pot, Uber most ethically challenged company — Peter Thiel on Twitter and pot, Google, Uber and gay CEOs — Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, provides his play on social media company Twitter. — Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel …

More: Business Insider, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat, Salon and Forbes

Tweets: @goldman, @bijan and @msuster

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Material design screenshots leaked for Google Play Store 5.0 update — An Exclusive Early Look At The Google Play Store's 5.0 Update — A couple of months ago, we shared an early look at an impending Play Store update that saw more “materialized” content listings, but the rest of the interface remained largely unchanged.

More: PC World, 9to5Google, Engadget, AndroidOS.in, Droid Life, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, Gizmodo and MobileSyrup.com

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Former Qualcomm executive Dennis Kish replaces Milo Medin as head of Google Fiber — Former Qualcomm Exec Named Head of Google Fiber — Google Fiber has a new boss, the latest sign that the search giant is serious about delivering high-speed Internet service.

More: Engadget, DSLreports, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Gigaom, Light Reading and Softpedia News

Businessweek:

Tim Cook Interview: The iPhone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture — Steve Jobs's office remains Steve Jobs's office. After his death in 2011, Tim Cook, his friend and successor as Apple (AAPL) chief executive officer, decided to leave the sparsely decorated room on the fourth floor of 1 Infinite Loop untouched.

More: Business Insider, iLounge and Valleywag

Tweets: @valleyhack and @johnpaczkowski

Ravi Grover / Facebook Developers:

Facebook adds label cohorts and retention charts to app analytics for developers — Introducing improved analytics tools for app developers — Today we're excited to announce that we're launching new tools within App Insights to let you better measure the performance of your app among specific groups …

More: The Next Web, WebProNews, ReadWrite and Inside Facebook

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Sony revises annual earnings forecast with $1.7B charge to account for its struggling smartphone business, now expects loss of $2.1B — Sony's inability to sell smartphones is costing it $1.7 billion — Sony has just revised its annual earnings forecast with the addition of a major 180 billion yen …

Ganesh T S / AnandTech:

Logitech Targets Home Automation Play with Harmony Living Home Lineup — Home Automation and Control - Setting the Stage — The increasing popularity of home automation (HA) equipment has fueled the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. However, the low barrier to entry …

More: Gigaom, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear and Electronista

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Dropbox suspends auto-upload feature in its iOS apps due to an iOS 8 ‘compatibility’ issue — Dropbox has “temporarily suspended” the auto-upload feature that syncs photos and videos in its primary iOS app, and the iOS version of its Carousel photo sharing app, following an issue with iOS 8.

More: The Dropbox Blog, Macworld, Engadget, Inquirer, Electronista, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, App Advice and TUAW

Lisa Eadicicco / Business Insider:

Google's rumored Android Silver program put on hold after departure of senior VP Nikesh Arora — Google Might Postpone Its Radical Plan To Change The Way Android Phones Are Sold — Google might delaying its rumored Android Silver program, a re-branding effort that would give high-end Android smartphones …

More: The Information, Ars Technica, AndroidOS.in, The Verge, Droid Life, Phandroid, Greenbot, Pocketnow, Android Police, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Cisco acquires Metacloud, boosting Intercloud, OpenStack efforts — Summary: The privately-held cloud player will be snapped up for an undisclosed sum as the networking giant aims to bolster its inter-connected cloud effort, run on open-source OpenStack. — Zack Whittaker

More: Cisco, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Cisco Blog, Data Center Knowledge, Re/code, SiliconBeat, Computerworld, The Register and InfoWorld

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