So if you can pry yourself away from the hype surrounding a slightly thinner, faster and lighter phone, you can appreciate the fact that Apple has a powerful, functional and good looking phone on the market right now.

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Getting part-time staff is "not a really good functional way for us to operate our business, " he says, because of how employees' shifts, which rotate 24 hours a day, are scheduled for optimal productivity.

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"Now I feel like I'm at a really good, functional point in my life, " she says.

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Once you straighten your back and let out a good yawn, your body feels functional again.

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This is why Apple is in the perverse position of arguing that design elements which make good smartphones so useful are not functional at all, and merely decorative ornamentation: if it admitted these features were actually useful, it would forfeit its design protection.

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" The good news, he says, is that "solving the functional things informs the design.

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