The company then releases a quick succession of product upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way.

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Music, for instance, offers Zune Xbox Music Pass subscribers quick links to new releases, a top 100 playlist and popular music videos.

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For the first approach, he shapes a wettened cone of clay on a fast-spinning wheel, gradually turning a small dimple in the top into a bowl shape, which he smooths with a deerskin cloth and releases from its base with one quick draw of a taut wire.

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Recent releases, and most prominently Google Now and the Quick Settings, have shown more up front work in the design language to accommodate features first.

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