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• Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company in addition to his role as the leader of Industrial Design.
• Eddy Cue will take on the additional responsibility of Siri® and Maps, placing all of our online services in one group. This organization has overseen major successes such as the iTunes Store®, the App Store℠, the iBookstore℠ and iCloud®.

  • Services
• Craig Federighi will lead both iOS and OS X®.

  • Software
• Bob Mansfield will lead a new group, Technologies,

  • hardware (Chips included)

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• Mr. Forstall refused to sign a public apology over the matter, dismissing the problems as exaggerated, according to people with knowledge of the situation who declined to be named discussing confidential matters.
• According to two people who have worked with Apple to develop new third-party products for the iPhone, the relationship between Mr. Forstall and Mr. Ive had soured to a point that the two executives would not sit in the same meeting room together.

  • Reportedly Schiller had some problems with him.

• major change up in their executive management.
• Senior Vice President of iOS Software Scott Forstall will be leaving.
• been a prominent public figure at Apple
• an internal political divide in Apple about the use of skeuomorphism,
• Forstall has long been a proponent of incorporating skeuomorphic features in the company's software, with Steve Jobs having supported and even originated that design direction for Apple's products. But others such as hardware guru Jonathan Ive find the inclusion of such features distasteful, and Apple's designers have reportedly been divided into camps over which direction to take Apple's products.
• DaringFireball's John Gruber believes that Forstall was forced out of Apple:
• he was pushed.
• his design taste, engineering management, abrasive style, and the whole iOS 6 Maps thing
• protected by his close relationship with Steve Jobs —
• : The Wall Street Journal confirms
• Mr. Forstall argued that the company could address the outcry without apologizing
• Mr. Cook and others disagreed, these people said. Mr. Cook signed his name to the apology instead.

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• Bob Mansfield only agreed to take on the new position of senior vice president of Technologies at Apple after the company decided to part ways with its former iOS chief, Scott Forstall, according to a new report.
• Unnamed sources who spoke with John Paczkowski of All Things D indicated that Mansfield agreed to a two-year contract with Apple thanks, in part, to the ouster of Forstall.
• timing of Mansfield's return was "not coincidental."

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• Ive will serve as head of Apple's Human Interface decision making
• skeuomorphism, which is a type of design that replicates real-world objects digitally.
• Ive is said to loathe skeuomorphist designs, which means Apple's software is expected to have a significantly different look and feel in the future.
• one unnamed Apple designer told The New York Times. "Clean edges, flat surfaces will likely replace the textures that are all over the place right now
• Corinthian leather" that appears in the Find My Friends and Calendar applications.

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• Scott Forstall is said to push for skeuomorphic design, while industrial designer Jony Ive and other Apple higher-ups are said to oppose the direction. “You could tell who did the product based on how much glitz was in the UI,
• Forstall has been around for a long time: he started at NeXT in the early ’90s and had been involved in the evolution of NeXTStep, Mac OS X, and iOS ever since

• • Why did Apple pick a guy from Dixons?
• Apple hired Browett at the end of January to fill the shoes of Ron Johnson,
• Browett began working at Apple on April 20, and was awarded substantial stock grants of 100,000 restricted shares, valued at over $60,000.000. Those shares were scheduled to vest over time, however.
  
   The first 5,000 fully vested October 20 (and are currently worth about $3 million), but the majority of the shares never did. Another 15,000 were scheduled to vest at the end of his first year. That leaves Apple with $57 million in shares to offer Browett's replacement.

• Cook to lead retail for now

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• iPad mini is forecast to get off to a strong but modest start this weekend with sales of up to 1.5 million units, but over time Apple's 7.9-inch tablet is expected to gain popularity.

• launched two new iPad models in a total of 34 countries, making it the largest product launch yet for the company.
• "broadest and deepest iPad launch ever, just in time for the holidays
• comparison, the third-generation iPad debuted in 12 countries this March,

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• Apple has sold out of its initial supply of fourth-generation iPad units from its online store.
• full-size 9.7-inch iPad are now advertised to ship in one week.
• the fourth-generation iPad achieved a Geekbench score of 1757, outperforming the iPhone 5 by ten percent and more than doubling the scores seen with the third-generation iPad and iPad 2.

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• to be clocked at 1.4GHz

• iPad drawing more power from the new adapter and claimed it was able to shave about 30 minutes to 45 minutes off the charge time. While this charger will work with your iPhones and iPods, we see those devices will only continue to draw 5 watts.

  • £15

•  Phil Schiller unveiled the iPad mini on stage earlier this month, he didn’t discuss the speaker on the new device

• The battery is lasting days for me and it is on 24/7.
• . Colors are very pleasing to the eye and viewing angles, as ever with an Apple display, do not disappoint. Y
• Yes, mini owners may have to make do with some resolution envy, but they at least won’t be lacking in any other regard.
• There’s no tablet in this size range that’s as beautifully constructed, works as flawlessly, or has such an incredible software selection. Would I prefer a higher-res display? Certainly. Would I trade it for the app selection or hardware design? For the consistency and smoothness of its software, or reliability of its battery? Absolutely not.
• if there is a weakness of this device, it’s the screen.
• What will surprise you is the weight.
• Those tablets don’t have the complete experience that the iPad does. Come on: The iPad is still the gold standard for tablet computing after al

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• Apple just released a beta version of iOS 6.1 to developers,
• making it easier to report issues
• Apple changed the lock screen controls. The buttons are new and spaced out across the entire width of the display

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• Mac developer Patrick Stein has been toying with his own Mac Pro setup and has managed to build his own Fusion Drive using command line tools. Stein configured an internal solid-state drive and a USB-attached traditional hard drive on his system and was able to combine them into a single logical volume as used for Fusion Drive.
• All of Stein's work was performed with a standard installation of OS X 10.8.2.

• iTunes 11 will be late and should ship by the end of November, according to a report from CNET.

• smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows Android continuing to gain share across Europe in latest 12 weeks of sales ending September 30, 2012
• rate of growth has slowed as week one of iPhone 5 sales show iOS gaining in the US and Great Britain.
• Apple has increased its share from 18.1% to 28.0% in the past year across Britain
• The rollout of 4G across the UK tomorrow is great news for consumers wishing to replicate their home WiFi experience on the go.

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• • Makes no sense.
• Google has given its iOS app a new search feature that squares it directly at Apple's Siri. Google even calls it the "most advanced voice search" on iOS
• "Play me a trailer of the upcoming James Bond movie." The trailer starts playing immediately right within Google Search. 
    
   - "When does daylight savings time end?" The answer will appear above the search results, so you can set your clock without having to click on a link. 
  

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• LG Nexus 4:
• Samsung Nexus 10: C

  • £319 for 16Gb
• 0-inch 2,560-by-1,600-pixel resolution (same as 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro)

  • Google obviously targets the most-features-for-best-price-people.
    When it gets to Retina threshold, more than that makes no sense
• Nexus 7

  • £160 for 16Gb

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