Apple design chief wants to work on.cups

Before coming on board at Apple, Sir Jonathan Ive was designing and pitching toilets as part of consultancy outfit Tangerine.It appears the man, who has since designed the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad (to name a few) sees an opportunity to put a dent in the drinking cup industry as well.In an interview alongside fellow Apple Senior Vice President Craig Federighi (who leads Apple's software teams) with USA Today, Ive noted that he'd "like to design cups" if he were not designing gadgets for Apple.The casual remark came at the end of a rare interview with the two execs, who also spoke with Bloomberg and are pushing the benefits of the internal collaboration within Apple since its top-level reorganization last October.Such collaboration led to the new fingerprint-scanning technology found in the company's iPhone 5S, Federighi told USA Today. "You can't get this without working cross-functionally," Federighi said, adding that it could have been botched if done with too much bravado. "You know, you're going to have some big message saying 'Scanning!' and buzz-buzz-zzz-zzz later it says 'Authenticated,' blink-blink-blink, with 10 seconds of animation...Ultimately we realized all that had to disappear." The interview comes hours before Apple's new iPhones go on sale. In the US, that begins Friday morning.You can read the whole interview here.

Apple demos Passbook, a ticket, coupon organizer for iOS 6

Related storiesComplete WWDC 2012 coverageApple: Retina display MacBook Pro starts at $2,199First take: MacBook Pro with Retina DisplayApple talks up Facebook integration for iOS 6Apple unveils iOS 6 with 200 new features, Siri gets updateSiri coming to iPad, can launch appsApple's iOS 6 includes a new Passbook feature that lets users store and quickly access electronic versions of all their tickets, boarding passes, and merchant cards in one place, executives said during WWDC 2012 today. In a demo, Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone Software, showed how to use the feature with a San Francisco Giants ticket. The feature will work with things like Starbucks cards, Apple Store cards, and plane tickets, as well. Passbook is dynamic, so users will be notified of flight delays and gate changes, he said.Passbook is integrated with the lock screen so that when the device is near a movie theater, for instance, a message pops up alerting the user that he or she has a ticket or rewards card that can be redeemed. When a user wants to delete a card, a shredder "shreds" it virtually. This content is rated TV-MA, and is for viewers 18 years or older. Are you of age?YesNoSorry, you are not old enough to view this content.Play