TUAW Year in Review: July 2012
Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day.
How the iPhone surprise was almost given away by Steve Jobs
Apple's curtain of secrecy surrounding new products is almost legendary, but a former Apple employee passed along a story to Business Insider's Seth Fiegerman about how the secret of the iPhone...
OS X Mountain Lion: The TUAW review
It's here! Following a surprise announcement in February, OS X Mountain Lion has arrived (to use its full and formal title, sans the 10.8 version number). Barely a year after the release of...
Apple removes negative reviews from apps affected by DRM bug (updated)
Update: Marco Arment says that it appears that Apple did a reupdate of the affected apps. By doing this, he says Apple ensured that customers would not lose data by being forced to delete apps off...
Five apps (and more) for the summer road trip
The Independence Day holiday week is upon us, and millions of American families are heading out on the open road. Where past generations depended on paper maps and Mad Libs, the march of...
Trojan targets Mac-using activists in China
There's a new backdoor trojan exploit out there for Mac users that appears to originate in China, specifically targeted at political activists in the Uighur movement against that country. The...
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The iPhone doesn't have the power to ruin (or rescue) everything
Apple reverses course on EPEAT environmental standard, eligible products once again included
Airbus creates electronic flight bag apps for pilots with iPads
No Comment: Android tablet not actually endorsed by Steve Jobs
Apple rolls out iTunes movies in the Cloud to UK, Australia, Canada, more
UK judge to make Apple acknowledge Samsung didn't copy Apple
WSJ: iPhone future includes thinner screen, other details cloudy
Apple Store artist's first-person story of his visit from the Secret Service
iPad "mini" drumbeat continues as NYT supports rumor of smaller tablet
Farewell, Lion, you've served us well; Apple removes 10.7 from App Store
Mountain Lion's AirPlay Mirroring + Reflection = infinite regress fun
The Daily to cut 50 staff members, switches to vertical-only layout