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Daring Fireball: Design as Branding

I love Gruber’s take here, as he rebuts Manjoo’s belief that Apple design has gone stale. It’s actually shocking to me how many people mistake design as aesthetics only, rather than a combination of look, feel, and function. This is, perhaps, a good indicator for why so much much tech – software and hardware combined – is so often ridiculously clunky and unfriendly to everyday users.

And for reals, how can you not look at that jet black iPhone 7 and see a strikingly beautiful phone?

Cramer: Is Apple getting its game back?

Plenty of skeptics have delighted in dissing Apple. But after this weekend, it appears Apple may have the last laugh. Find out what happened!

9 million iPhones in a weekend, and this piece does a nice analysis on what Apple does right.

iOS 7 review: looking to bigger things and swiping away the past | Technology | theguardian.com

This is a pretty fair review of iOS 7. It does compare to other phones as people want to do these days, but in a fair way. (Most of these pieces are either from Apple or Android fanboys, so the comparison is always off. This is not. It’s a fair, good look at what works and what doesn’t in iOS 7.

iOS 7: Apple's new operating system goes live today - Telegraph

Happy iOS 7 Day!

Competitors react (humorously) to Apple's new iPhones

It wasn’t just Apple working hard to wow consumers this morning; Just about every big-name smartphone maker was feverishly coming up with snarky ways to […]

Funny and interesting. I’ve known several people who switched from iPhone to Android, Android to iPhone, and even one friend recently went Android to Windows phone – and none of them switched because of these corny advertising campaigns.

Apple iPhone 5s and 5c: everything you need to know

Apple's iPhone event on Tuesday brought us the two new devices we expected -- and not much else. At a comparatively subdued and small event […]

A good catch-up piece if you missed the news yesterday. Though I can’t help but notice the snarky “Apple can’t innovate anymore” undercurrent in all these pieces. Apple changed the world twice with iPhone and iPad. I’m not sure it’s fair to keep asking the same of them with every product announcement.

Apple iPhone 5S and 5C: all the news and rumors | The Verge

Nothing too exciting in these rumors, but nice to think about what the next iPhone might be like.

The coating that makes iPhones touch sensitive is running out — Tech News and Analysis

Wow, the stuff that makes touch screens responsive is a precious metal. Feels like something out of a sci-fi movie. Picture it with me - hardly dressed roughnecks battle it out in what remains of New York for the last bits of a precious metal used in the ruling class’ communication devices.

Wall Street's Shortsighted View On Samsung And Apple – ReadWrite

It seems people either want Apple to die or love the company to a fault. This piece is pretty good at showing practically why they’re here to stay.