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Remember when Apple was going to change the world?

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Kirk McElhearn:

I’m reminded of the famous question that Steve Jobs asked Pepsi CEO John Sculley in the 1980s, in order to convince Sculley to join the company: >

“Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

Is Apple selling sugar water?

Tim Cook on iPhone sales

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A quick walkthrough of Apple’s numbers, plus some thoughts on Tim Cook’s respond to an analyst question on the iPhone

Transcript of yesterday’s Apple call

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Links to the webcast, if you’d like to listen to Tim Cook’s mellifluous voice, or a hand crafted transcript, if you prefer.

Angela Ahrendts recruiting U.S. employees for China

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9to5mac:

In video messages to employees in recent days and weeks, Ahrendts has been recruiting employees from United States-based Apple Retail stores to relocate to China to help build up Apple’s retail efforts in the region.

Sports Illustrated lays off all staff photographers

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This is just another thread in a long, troubling trend.

“There was a decision made through the company to restructure various departments, including at Sports Illustrated. Unfortunately economic circumstances are such that it has cut the six staff photographers.”

On multi-user access to your iOS device

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Have you ever wanted to share your iPhone or iPad with someone else? If you share your Mac with someone, you can each have your own account. OS X is designed for multiple users. But iOS is not.

Here’s an idea for a short term fix.

Here come the Apple Watch ads

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Wall Street Journal:

Early this month, mobile ad exchange TapSense announced a product it said will allow marketers to place ads in applications created for the Apple Watch by third-party developers.

Winter is coming.

Apple’s worldwide Mac sales move from 5.8% to 7.1%

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IDC just released their latest worldwide PC sales tracking report. Bottom line, Apple maintained their relative position at number five, behind Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Acer Group, but showed explosive growth, moving from a 5.8% share of the market in 4Q2013 to 7.1% in 4Q2014.

Uber for restaurants: Dine and dash, legally

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There are a lot of Uber-likes in the startup world. There are startups competing to be the Uber for food, Uber for alcohol, Uber for parking, Uber for valet-ing your car, and many, many more. Most of those will never see the light of day.

One of the central features that makes Uber successful is the elimination of payment handling. You use an app to call a car, then just sit back and enjoy the ride. The linked article is about some Uber-likes for the restaurant industry.

One in particular, Reserve, has a secret advantage.

How Lego became the Apple of toys

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Fast Company:

In the last 10 years, Lego has grown into nothing less than the Apple of toys: a profit-generating, design-driven miracle built around premium, intuitive, highly covetable hardware that fans can’t get enough of.

Marco’s regret

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Marco Arment was the voice behind the “Apple has lost the functional high ground” blog post that has gone viral over the past few days.

With the benefit of hindsight, Marco updated his post with a link to “What it’s like to be popular for a day”:

You might think this is a dream come true for a blogger, but it’s horrible.

Monster sues Beats Electronics and founders for fraud

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Wall Street Journal:

In a complaint filed in Superior Court in San Mateo County, Calif., Monster said Beats “fraudulently acquired” the Beats by Dr. Dre line of headphones through a “sham transaction” with HTC, which agreed to purchase a 51% stake in Beats for $300 million in 2011.

On leaving the Mac App Store

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Last May, Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic, announced that the team was pulling Coda, their highly regarded web development tool, from the Mac App Store, primarily due to sandboxing issues.

Yesterday, they published the results of this experiment.