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
- Thanks to Apple, Dr. Dre had the most profitable year of any musician in history
- Apple's Zorlu Center store in Istanbul wins design and engineering accolades
- Apple online store now accepting payment via PayPal
- MSN-branded apps added to Microsoft's iOS flock
- Microsoft acquires app testing platform HockeyApp
- United Airlines providing iPhone 6 Plus to more than 23,000 flight attendants
- Apple and IBM kick off their partnership with suite of new business apps
- Apple fires back hard at news organizations for demanding to see Steve Jobs depo video
- Pocket Gamer launches iOS games Advent Calendar: Get Hoplite and Shadow Blade now
- Tim Cook makes TIME's shortlist for 2014 "Person of the Year"
- Panic Inc. forced by Apple to drop non-FTP file transfers from Transmit for iOS
- MasterCard rolls out new Apple Pay commercial featuring Gwen Stefani
- Apple kicks off new "Change is in the Air" advertising campaign for iPad Air 2
- Apple's new "spaceship" campus to feature $161 million auditorium and $74 million physical fitness center
Features
- YouTube Find: Cheer on this iPad robot as it escapes from its conference room confinement
- How to disable iPhone cellular calls on iPad and Mac
- The strategies and challenges involved in developing new programming languages such as Swift
- The iPhone 6 is causing a slapping epidemic
- So it's come to this, Apple?
- PSA: Don't lose your Apple ID recovery key if you are using two-factor authentication
- Looking at Apple Watch success through the lens of the digital camera revolution
- If you play this iOS game in public people will think you're insane
- Orion spacecraft powered by single-core processor previously found in iBook G3
- You won't believe the fast fingers of this iPad and iPhone 6 Plus drummer
- Rumor Roundup: A fool's game
- Rumor Roundup: A tale of three rumor blogs
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.