Here’s a breakdown of the patents.

Point of the talk was, when you’re lucky enough to create a smash hit product — when the stars align, and the hardware is great and the ecosystem is great and the apps are great and the whole experience is great, and everything you do just makes everything else better, and you’re totally on a roll and can do no wrong — when that happens, you do not go out and try to fuck it all up by discouraging people who love your product. What you do, instead, is you fix your fucking shitty ass network you fucking shit-eating-grin-wearing hillbilly ass clown! [The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs]

Worth reading.. twice.

And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone, and that company hands it to you, and gives you an exclusive deal to carry it — and all you guys can do is complain about how much people want to use it. You, Randall Stephenson, and your lazy stupid company — you are the problem. You are what’s wrong with this country.

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1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.

2. Open iTunes and click on your iPhone in the devices list.

3. Click check for updates.

4. Install the new update.

5. When the install and syncing finishes, reboot your iPhone.

6. Tap on Messages. Your iPhone will now have a small camera icon next to the text field. Viola, You’re done!

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Here is a list of my favorite features that you will find in Snow Leopard:

• Faster Wake up, shut down, and joining a wireless network.
• Automatic Automatic Automatic! Snow Leopard automatically detects your current time zone and will update printer drivers so you don’t have to.
• Safari is super fast in Snow Leopard. It’s also super resistant to crashes (Damn browser plugins, ahem, Flash).
• Built in Microsoft Exchange support right out of the box. Great for students and organizations utilizing Microsoft Exchange (almost everyone). Email, Contacts and Calendar with Exchange will work the way they are supposed to without any extra setup.
• Exposé and Stacks get new functionality. Exposé will now utilize the dock for a better user experience (just click and hold on an application icon and all windows will unshuffle so you can quickly change to unshuffle another one). Stacks are now scrollable and gains navigation.
• Grand Central Dispatch! For us developers this is simply awesome. It makes it super easy to take advantage of multicore processors. Consumers will also notice a kick-ass difference in application performance by applications utilizing this technology.
• OpenCL, yet another geeky technology. When an application needs extra processing power it can turn to the graphic processor to share the load. Another piece of technology to make your mac scream in terms of performance.
• 64-bit native applications including Finder. Speed!
• Reclaim your storage! Not only will installing Snow Leopard be 45% faster than it’s predecessor, but it’ll give you about 6 GB of storage back!

Traditionally Apple charges $129 for new versions of OS X, however this version is so important that they want everyone to upgrade and it’ll only cost them $29.

Today’s new (or updated) products include the iMac, the Mac Mini and the king of all kings, the Mac Pro.

Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and a next-generation system architecture to deliver up to twice the performance of the previous generation system.* The new Mac Pro starts at $2,499 and features the latest graphics technology and an updated interior that makes expansion even easier than before. [Apple]

From an outside look the front of the Mac Pro now replaces the previous Firewire 400 port with Firewire 800 for two Firewire 800 ports, two USB ports, audio out and the power button.

The inside will look noticeably different to Mac Pro enthusiasts. There is one large memory riser as opposed to two, which can be found in all previous models.

The Mac Pro also comes with both DVI and Mini DisplayPort.

The Mac Mini now packs a dedicated video card, Mini DisplayPort, mini-DVI, five USB ports and Firewire 800.

The iMac also sports the new Mini DisplayPort — officially standard across the Mac lineup. Firewire 800 is also included.

For more check out Apple’s website.

UPDATE: It appears that the new iMac wired keyboard does not include the “num-pad” that can be found on stand-alone versions.

Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature. Not, Lopp said, “seven in order to make three look good”, which seems to be a fairly standard practice elsewhere. They’ll take ten, and give themselves room to design without restriction. Later they whittle that number to three, spend more months on those three and then finally end up with one strong decision. [Helen Walters]

Lot’s of work goes into some of the most amazing products.

The 2007 launch iPhone identifies itself as iPhone 1,1, while the current iPhone 3G lists as iPhone 1,2, indicating that it’s a minor revision of a similar design. As with similar practices for Macs, Apple’s choice of 2,1 implies a major update for the handset; the second-generation iPod touch is listed as iPod 2,1 and includes slightly faster internal hardware as well as a significant external redesign. [Aidian Malley of AppleInsider]

Why would Apple do such a thing!?

Something tells me that this won’t be the last word.

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We put in a call to Apple to find out the reason why, but unless you’re new to this whole scene you won’t exactly be flabbergasted to hear that the company was about as communicative as your average sullen teenager. The company’s approach appears to be pretending that the system was never announced in the first place—you won’t find any notice of it on Apple’s site, save for the plaintive cries of users wondering what happened to it. [Dan Moren of Macworld]

It’s a very interesting point. What happened to the iPhone push notifications? My only guess is as good as the next guys.

Read more at Macworld.com.