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Following the success of OS X Snow Leopard for Macs in 2009, one of iOS 9’s standout ‘features’ will be a directed focus on stabilizing and optimizing the operating system.

Nilay "Reckless" Patel on the Mac OS X 10.7.4 update: >"The update also fixes an issue that kept the "reopen windows when logging back in" setting permanently enabled."

"A simpler, more beautiful Google," the goal for the new version of the Google+ app.

Platforms within platforms: >Today, we’re announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful.

>Twitter has filed a motion in state court in New York seeking to quash a court order requiring it to turn over information about one of its users and his communications on Twitter.

The real way to rebel would be to absolutely kill it _in a suit_. Look the part but think different, and take them by surprise. Nobody would see it coming.

This isn't creepy though, right?

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>So the matchup is Zynga against the field, the field being every person in the world who knows how to, and has the will to create a social game. Who would you bet on? It seems that Zynga is pursuing an old-world (read, 90’s) video game development strategy when it seems so obvious that game development is headed the other way. Zynga wants to be a game publishing house that squashes competitors in a world that seems built for small, independent publishers. This is akin to aggressively trying to build a book publishing company right as the Kindle goes on the market, and then buying up each popular book as it goes on the ebookstore at multiples far beyond what the books are currently selling.

>Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. It was almost like owning a fleet of private jets. > >Passes in hand, Rothstein and Vroom flew for business. They flew for pleasure. They flew just because they liked being on planes. They bypassed long lines, booked backup itineraries in case the weather turned, and never worried about cancellation fees. Flight crews memorized their names and favorite meals.

Apple's welcome letter.

If All of Earth's Water was put into Single Sphere.

Robert Krulwich: >Until cars became the dominant mode of personal transport, there was no architectural reason to take your hat off between home and office. With Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system came cars, and cars made hats inconvenient, and for the first time men, crunched by the low ceilings in their automobiles, experimented with hat-removal, and got to like it.

They've lost 1/3rd of their users in a matter of weeks.

Global Grind: >One of our heroes, Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, passed away this morning after a long bout with cancer. Read more: http://globalgrind.com/news/adam-yauch-mca-beastie-boys-dies-47-photos#ixzz1tvMAlXQr

>“What we aren’t willing to do is let online-only retailers use our brick-and-mortar stores as a showroom for their products and undercut our prices,” Target executives wrote in a letter to vendors, asking them to think of new pricing and inventory strategies, according to a note that Deborah Weinswig, a Citi analyst, sent to clients.

>Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire for telling the SEC (and Yahoo's board) that he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College when he does not have one.

Interesting news for creators of independent content everywhere, but there's also a concern: what happens when independent content is no longer independent?

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