The Week in Review: news and features you don't want to miss
Last week was a busy one with your favorite TUAW writers posting some excellent How-To guides, commentary and other informative news articles. Here's a quick roundup of our recent feature worthy posts you may have missed:
News
- CVS also disabling support for Apple Pay
- Apple and AT&T confirm: AT&T locks down Apple SIM cards to their network after sign-up
- iTunes sees 13% drop in music downloads
- Amazon Rewards Visa card now works with Apple Pay
- Report: Rite Aid disables Apple Pay support
- GT Advanced Technologies reaches settlement agreement with Apple
- iFixit teardown of iPad Air 2 reveals 2GB of RAM, smaller battery
- iPad Air 2 review roundup
- Productivity Warning: Hearthstone heads to iPhone early next year
- Apple Pay works in overseas (if you pretend you're in America)
- Apple posts blockbuster earnings with $8.5 billion in profit and sales of 39.27 million iPhones
- Apple releases iOS 8.1 with Apple Pay support, expanded Continuity features
- iFixit teardown of iMac with 5K Retina display reveals hardware similar to 2013 iMac
Features
- Slices of Apple episode 9: Quality is job one
- Win a Bluetone 100 Bluetooth Speaker from Cambridge Audio and TUAW
- Crowdfunding Roundup: Taking a break
- Rumor Roundup: More questionable reports
- Addressing Mac OS X Yosemite's most annoying "features"
- A simple guide to setting up Apple pay
- Rumor Roundup: Stephen Colbert has his work cut out for him
TUAW will be back next week with another round of handy features and breaking news, so be sure to drop by to see what's new and what's useful.