"I think that people’s emotional connection to our products is that they sense our care, and the amount of work that has gone into creating it."

Seems like this is the secret cause to almost anything. If you care about it enough, and pour your heart and soul into it, others will as well.

"Apple didn’t make publishing easier... They made it easier to get your ideas into digital print. There’s a huge difference between printing and publishing." — @sethgodin

Apple plans to double spending on its supply chain, to $7.1 billion, continuing its focus on streamlining and controlling manufacturing.

"Novelty was not Steve’s highest value. Beauty was."

RT @gruber: Sprint ad on back cover of the new Rolling Stone:

You and I are on the same team. We all are. We may link to the same articles, review the same products, develop apps for the same market, and design with the same intense perfectionism, but we are a community. Let’s continue to fight for each other, encourage each other, and work together to make amazing things.

After seeing the Macintosh and then reading this issue of Macworld, I had an important realization in my young life: people made this.

The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

Well, what do you know? This all sounds very familiar. — More details emerge about Apple's iCloud music service:

Apple is studying its processes so it can pass them down to new employees.

I can't say more but, yes, that's exactly what they are doing.