If you were among the iPhone users hoping that Apple would switch to sapphire crystal displays over their existing (and breakable) Gorilla Glass displays, we're going to have to disappoint you. According to German news site Tages-Anzeiger, Apple has already tested the sapphire crystal displays and found them unsuitable for mass production.

Jony Ive's flatter, simpler design for iOS 7 largely received a warm welcome among critics at WWDC (despite numerous ribbings that it looked a little too close to the interface for the Windows Phone), but many expressed concerns that something about the icons looked a little ... off. Turns out there's a reason for that. According to Ive himself, as reported by The Next Web, Apple's usual team of designers only tweaked the icons; Apple's marketing and communications teams were responsible for the actual designs.

Kickstarter has long been the refuge of the "little guy"--the place where independent developers can gain funding for quirky projects that otherwise may never see the light of day--but now it appears the big guys are starting to pay attention as well. Today Logitech announced its acquisition of TT Design Labs, which received considerable media attention after a Kickstarter for its "TidyTilt" accessory for the iPhone brought in over $200,000 last year. Starting today, Logitech's rebranded (and apparently improved) version of the product is available for preorder, and we had a chance to speak with co-founder Derek Karnow ahead of the announcement.

We here at Mac|Life love our iPhones, but we'd never go so far as to say that it makes everyone into a professional photographer. But that's apparently what the Chicago Sun-Times thinks, as it recently laid off its entire photography staff in favor of teaching its regular reporters "iPhone photography basics" so they can produce their own photos and, yes, videos. It's an especially bizarre decision for the Sun-Times, which is known for taking adventage of its tabloid format to deliver photo-heavy editions.