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Apple News: Apple Watch website updated with new product details and UI information Apple last week provided a bit of a makeover to its Apple Watch webpage, adding a number of interesting tidbits regarding the device’s UI and functionality. Specifically, three new sections were added: Timekeeping, New Ways to Connect, and Health & Fitness. Under the Timekeeping section, Apple highlights the myriad of ways in which users can customize their…

Apple News: Reality challenged: remember those predictions Tim Cook would be fired? It was just a matter of time, but Apple’s executive corps could only preside over so much market share bloodletting before the bill came due. Bloomberg says “Apple Executives Set to Pay Price in Overhaul” If only they’d listened to pundits and licensed iOS or opened it up to antivirus vendors or sold a dirt-cheap iPhone! So sad….

Apple News: How Apple’s pursuit of simplicity helped revolutionize the SIM card One of the neatest and most innovative features of Apple’s new iPads is the unique Apple SIM feature, which allows users to easily switch between different carriers and plans using iOS. A newly uncovered patent application dates elements of Apple’s concept back to 2009, before Apple even debuted the iPad. Called “Provisioning an Embedded Subscriber Identity Module,” the…

Apple News: The New Macintosh Laptop Line – how much of an Improvement are They? To look at, the new 15 inch MacBook Pro isn’t all that different from the models that were in vogue last year. Those models last year brought in innovations like the captive battery, and the SD slot; to all appearances, the current iteration of the famed Macintosh laptop line doesn’t have anything earthshaking to offer?…

Apple News: How Corning won Apple back and built the strongest Gorilla Glass yet Corning’s relationship with Apple looked doomed earlier this year. Having manufactured the touchscreens for every iPhone since 2007, the Gorilla Glass bosses were all but sure they were being ditched in favor of synthetic sapphire crystal, set to be supplied by Apple’s hot new partner, GT Advanced Technologies. But while Apple’s affair with GT has imploded…