AllThingsD has just uploaded all the videos and audio of Steve Jobs appearances at D from 2003-2010 in iTunes, available for free.
I have been playing them while I work today and some parts are real funny. Cool to watch. the one bad part is when Kara Swisher came on in D3 in 2005. She is very annoying and useless.
Steve had style, quick wit, and you could tell he knew what he was talking about when he responded to questions, at least from within his reality distortion field frame of reference. Tim Cook gives a more measured response, but his intelligence to me is also quite obvious, especially when compared with interviews of, say, Steve Ballmer or even Mark Zuckerberg. Walt makes it easier to tell the pretenders from the real deal.
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It is cool to look back when he introduced Tiger and Spotlight. And Walt talking to Steve about the idea of Preview. Which I don't know if that is where it came from. Lots of real cool bits.
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lol, another was when Steve asked the audience who had an iPod and then Walt asked Bill who was sitting in the audience if he has one. lmao made me laugh.
lol, another was when Steve asked the audience who had an iPod and then Walt asked Bill who was sitting in the audience if he has one. lmao made me laugh.
Yeah, I understand Bill's kids at home weren't allowed to have iPods either. Sucks when you're the offspring of one of the richest men in the world, and you're stuck with a Zune.
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"We look at the tablet and we think it's going to fail." – Steve Jobs, 2003
This said after Bill Gates's enthusiastic tablet-with-stylus demonstration at the All Things Digital Conference (9:32 in). Priceless!
Man, I loved Steve for all he was able to pull off, but man he was indeed master of the RFD generator! I long ago noticed that he regularly criticized the very nature of competitors' ideas (like the tablet)...until Apple came out with THEIR take on idea (this was four years before the iPhone and iPod Touch were released). He's done it soooo many times, it's hilarious. That's why I only believe about half -- if that -- of what he ever said in interviews.
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