Boot up: Apple's real problem, how GDS did it, Nexus 4 and 10 benchmarked and more.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

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Apple's design problems aren't skeuomorphic >> counternotions

In the end, what's wrong with iOS isn't the dark linen behind the app icons at the bottom of the screen, but the fact that iOS ought to have much better inter-application management and navigation than users fiddling with tiny icons. I'm fairly sure most Apple users would gladly continue to use what are supposed to be skeuomorphically challenged Calendar or Notebook apps for another thousand years if Apple could only solve the far more vexing software problems of AppleID unification when using iTunes and App Store, or the performance and reliability of the same. And yet these are the twin sides of the same systems design …