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• 10 Apple Watch apps you should check out

  Ten more Apple Watch apps your wrist may thank you for

• iOS, Android or Windows? Who dominates the enterprise BYOD landscape?

  BYOD movement continues to mature with more personal tablets joining employee-owned smartphones as the devices of choice for business productivity on the go.

• Selling price drops as smartphone growth slows from "boil to simmer"

  "While premium phones aren't going anywhere, we are seeing increasingly better specs in more affordable smartphones."

• 7 reasons Apple should open-source Swift -- and 7 reasons it won't

  Faster innovation, better security, new markets -- the case for opening Swift might be more compelling than Apple will admit

• How to prepare for Windows 8 even though it's not coming to enterprises

  Windows 8 won't be adopted as a standard at your business anytime soon, according to a new Forrester report. But that doesn't mean IT shouldn't prepare for it to sneak through the BYOD side door. Here are five ways to be ready for Windows 8.

• Ten improvements we'd like to see in iOS

  Like clockwork, Apple has released a new major version of its iOS mobile operating system every summer since 2008, and we expect 2013 to be no different. iOS 7 seems likely to take its bow at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which will be held June 10 through 14 in San Francisco.

• The secret of Apple's design success: the humane interface

  A key to Apple's success is the company's insistence on reducing options in the name of reducing complexity. Those who decry Apple customers as fanboys attack us and the company alike, saying that because Apple chooses to focus on simplicity, we and it must also be simple. That's the wrong interpretation of the facts.