Seybold Seminars San Francisco 1998 keynote

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1. 1998

   Seybold Seminars New York 1998 keynote

   Jobs and Phil Schiller demonstrated faster PowerPC G3 processors and benchmarked them against Intel’s Pentium II for the publishing crowd, showed QuickTime 3 and introduced the Apple Studio Display, Apple’s first flat-panel LCD desktop monitor.

2. 1998

   iMac introduction

   On the stage where he introduced the Macintosh in 1984, Jobs reported Apple was ‘back on track’ and unveiled the translucent Bondi Blue iMac — 233 MHz G3, 15-inch display, USB, no floppy — at $1,299, calling rival PCs ‘uuugly’. He then raced it against a Compaq in a live demo.

3. 1998

   WWDC 1998 keynote (Mac OS X strategy)

   Days after the iMac launch, Jobs recapped the new hardware then, with Avie Tevanian, laid out the software roadmap: Carbon APIs so existing Mac apps could be ported, QuickTime streaming, and a unified next-generation OS (Mac OS X) replacing the Rhapsody plan.

4. 1998

   Video message for Mathematica’s 10th anniversary

   A short message Jobs recorded for Stephen Wolfram marking ten years of Mathematica, which had been a flagship application bundled with the original NeXT Computer (and which Jobs reportedly named).

5. 1998

   Macworld Expo New York 1998 keynote

   The opening keynote of the first Macworld New York: Jobs gave the iMac an August 15 ship date and a 56K modem, showed the PowerBook G3 Series and Mac OS 8.5 with Sherlock, and laid out the OS roadmap (Rhapsody shipping as Mac OS X Server in 1999, then ‘Sonata’). Apple reported another profitable quarter.

6. 1998

   iMac launch-eve TV interviews (CNBC, Fox, unedited satellite feed)

   A series of satellite TV interviews on 14 Aug 1998 – CNBC Market Wrap with Bill Griffeth, Fox with Neil Cavuto, and an unedited Jobs-side recording where the interviewer is barely audible – promoting the iMac’s 15 Aug retail debut.

7. 1998

   Seybold Seminars San Francisco 1998 keynote

   Jobs reported Apple’s return to profitability and growing cash, reviewed the Power Mac G3, PowerBook G3 and $1,299 iMac, teased a consumer portable, previewed Mac OS 8.5 (Sherlock, ColorSync) and WebObjects 4, and explained the Mac OS X plan built on Rhapsody, with Adobe, Macromedia and Quark demoing on the new OS.

8. 1998

   Apple Expo Paris 1998 (excerpts)

   Only excerpts survive of Jobs’s first Apple Expo Paris keynote after his return, where he brought the iMac to Europe. Useful mainly as a record that Jobs keynoted the Paris show in 1998.

9. 1998

   CAUSE 98 general session Q&A with educators

   Jobs takes questions from teachers and university IT professionals at the CAUSE (now EDUCAUSE) annual conference in Seattle, months after the iMac launch.

10. 1999

    CNBC interview after Macworld 1999

    A six-minute CNBC interview the day of the Macworld keynote in which Jobs discusses the coloured iMacs, the new G3 and Apple’s recovery.

11. 1999

    Macworld Expo San Francisco 1999 (five-colour iMacs, Blue & White G3)

    Jobs introduced the Blue and White Power Mac G3 tower with its flip-open door, Mac OS X Server with a NetBoot demo of 50 iMacs, QuickTime streaming, and — to a Rolling Stones soundtrack — the iMac in five ‘flavours’: blueberry, strawberry, tangerine, grape and lime.

12. 1999

    Macworld Expo Tokyo 1999 keynote

    A re-run of the San Francisco keynote for Japan: Blue & White Power Mac G3, five-colour iMacs, Studio Displays and Mac OS X Server. The recording ends abruptly when the 50-iMac NetBoot movie demo fails on stage.

13. 1999

    WWDC 1999 keynote (Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 preview)

    Jobs announced the open-source Darwin core, previewed Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, renamed Yellow Box to Cocoa, made OpenGL the 3D API and showed the new bronze-keyboard PowerBook G3, joined by Phil Schiller and Avie Tevanian.