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September 17, 2014, 3:45 PM

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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, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, iMore, BGR, GeekWire, AppleInsider, iMore, Slate, MacRumors, CITEworld, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, Electronista and MacDailyNews

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: AppleInsider, BGR, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, iMore, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, Touch Arcade and App Advice

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Developers warn iOS 8 users not to upgrade to iCloud Drive before OS X Yosemite release — With the public release of iOS 8 landing today ahead of the new iPhone models shipping on September 19, developers are warning users not to upgrade to Apple's new iCloud Drive feature just yet.

More: BGR, iMore, Gigaom, Quartz, Business Insider, Laptop Mag, Mashable and Gotta Be Mobile

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple seemingly removing HealthKit compatible iOS 8 apps from App Store due to issues

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Business Insider, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and iMore

Bonnie Cha / Re/code:

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

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

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, ongoing by Tim Bray and Business Insider

Tweets: @panzer and @stevesi

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iPhone 6 Plus Review: The First Truly Well-Designed Big Smartphone

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Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

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

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Daily Dot, Laptop Mag, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Fast Company, BGR, MacDailyNews, FierceWireless, Reuters, TechRadar.com, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com, AppleTell, WebProNews, Gearburn, iPhone, iPhone Hacks, TODAY, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, blogs.ft.com, Gigaom, Computerworld and bgr.in. Tweets: @waltmossberg. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

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

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

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Tech:

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

Jason Snell / Six Colors:

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus: A tale of scale

Tweets: @reppep

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: Gizmodo, Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Macworld, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, iLounge and Valleywag

Tweets: @nickbilton, @valleyhack and @johnpaczkowski

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, PC Magazine, BGR, TUAW, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, CNET, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider and iMore. 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” …

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, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, SiliconBeat, Forbes and Salon

Tweets: @dickc, @dannysullivan, @goldman, @bijan and @msuster

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, Benedict Evans, Pocket-lint, Forbes, BGR, TIME, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, Pocketnow, Cult of Mac, Wearable Tech Insider, MacRumors and ParisLemon

Tweets: @mathewi and @om

Thanks:@sidharthdassani

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: Gizmodo, PC World, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidOS.in and Engadget

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, Light Reading, Softpedia News and Gigaom

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, ReadWrite, BGR, iMore, Engadget, Macworld, Inquirer, Electronista, Digital Trends, Gizmodo and App Advice

PC World:

Sling's TV place-shifting gains Chromecast support — Good news for Chromecast dongle users! Sling Media has upgraded its iPhone, iPad, and Android phone Slingplayer smartphone apps to stream Sling-connected content to any TV fitted with a Chromecast dongle. (An Android tablet app is in the works and coming soon.)

More: Sling Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google, Gigaom, Digital Trends, SlashGear, TechRadar.com, Multichannel News, Droid Life and Zatz Not Funny!

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: Marketing Land, The Next Web, ReadWrite and WebProNews

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Easel To Shut Down Nine Months After Being Acquired By GitHub — Back when GitHub acquired Easel, a collaborative, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get HTML web design tool, Easel's blog post on the matter implied that it would be sticking around. “Easel continues to run as it has,” it read.

More: Easel, VentureBeat and The Next Web

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Retail Software Startup LightSpeed Raises $35 Million From iNovia — While e-commerce is huge and growing, about 90 percent of all purchases still happen offline. LightSpeed wants to provide the software and services that help brick-and-mortar retailers increase sales and improve the general customer experience.

More: VatorNews, Re/code, PE Hub Blog, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Montreal Gazette and Techvibes.com

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

BitTorrent's Encrypted P2P Chat App Bleep Opens To The Public, Adds Mac, Android Clients — In the rush of new services for consumers that are concerned about their data privacy, make room for another messaging app. Peer-to-peer file distribution service BitTorrent is today announcing …

More: The Official BitTorrent Blog, The BitTorrent Engineering …, Gizmodo, BetaNews, iMore, CNET, The Verge and The Next Web

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