Rumor: The unicorn and Sasquatch will be announced soon.

The credit-card company has made an unspecified investment in Square, a two-year-old service that helps businesses and consumers pay with credit cards on a mobile phone or Apple Inc iPhone, both companies said in a statement.

I’ve been using the Square with my iPhone since it was in beta and I love it.

One iPad came back with a post it note on it that said “Wife said no.” It was escalated as something funny, and two of the VPs got wind of it. They sent the guy an iPad 2 with a note on it that said “Apple said yes.”

via MacRumors

Real people working at a real company — can’t hate that.

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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“This thing, this thing right here, if this doesn’t work, you’re fucked.”

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.

Pretty good commercial. Too bad the Storm is a pain-in-the-ass to use — especially when compared with the iPhone.

Via TG Daily.

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.