TUAW posted a link to this video earlier today.
To this day, Snow White may be my favorite phase of Apple design.

9 to 5 Mac has screenshots from ABC’s report on the iPhone 4 antenna press conference.
Several reports from sources allowed into these labs after Apple’s press conference said that they were not allowed to take photos on the tour, so ABC’s coverage is unique, and frankly, pretty suprising.

Alexis Madrigal:

But that’s just it: the iPhone does mean something, and it’s the type of meaning that transcends rational optimizing about features and raw performance. “Apple weathered the storm because there is such brand loyalty through the religious narrative,” Campbell maintained. “When you’re buying into Mac, you’re buying into an ideology. You’re buying into a [...]

Marco:
Know why the iPhone 4’s antenna grip got tons of attention but there aren’t stories about the same sorts of minor flaws on other phones?
Because if there’s a minor flaw with whichever Droid Xtreme Edition or HTC Whatever is being hyped by the gadget blogs this month, who cares?
Apple is on a pedestal, and people [...]

Apple PR:
White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.

How could Apple have not foreseen the manufacturing nightmare they [...]

Impressive showing by the iPad.

$15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share. Hot damn.
Update: I’ll be live-tweeting the call.

The gist of the company’s 12-page response to Congress is that every iPhone “checks in” with its zip code once every 24 hours. (Of course, location-based services can be turned off in iOS by customers.)

The Computer History Museum:
The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.
For those who want to see how it worked “under [...]

Ten years ago today, Apple announced the G4 Cube at Macworld New York.
The G4 Cube was an interesting machine. It was a powerful G4, packed into a 8-inch cube, suspended in clear molded plastic. It ran silently, without a fan. It featured some of the most impressive industrial design Apple has ever shipped — the entire [...]