Macworld Expo Tokyo 1999 keynote

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 1999

   Japanese television interview, Tokyo (1999)

   Wikipedia’s media timeline lists a 1999 interview with Jobs on Japanese television in Tokyo, separate from the NHK interview of February 2001. It most likely coincides with his Macworld Tokyo keynote of February 21, 1999, but no copy was located.

10. 1999

    Speech to Apple employees on campus (1999)

    Wikipedia’s media timeline lists a 1999 video of Jobs speaking to employees at the Apple campus in Cupertino, during the year the iBook and Power Mac G4 completed his product grid. No hosted copy was located in this pass.

11. 1999

    CNN interview after the iBook introduction

    CNN interviews Jobs on the day he unveiled the iBook at Macworld New York. Companion CNN post-keynote interviews exist for the Power Mac G4 Cube (19 Jul 2000) and the new Power Macs (18 Jul 2001).

12. 1999

    Macworld Expo New York 1999 (iBook and AirPort)

    The keynote opened with Noah Wyle walking out as Jobs (reprising his ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’ role) before the real Jobs appeared. Jobs then unveiled the clamshell iBook — ‘iMac to go’ — and AirPort, the first mainstream consumer Wi-Fi, demonstrated by passing the iBook through a hula hoop with Phil Schiller.

13. 1999

    Seybold San Francisco 1999 (Power Mac G4 introduction)

    Jobs introduced the PowerPC G4 ‘Velocity Engine’ processor and the graphite Power Mac G4 — billed as the first personal ‘supercomputer’, with the famous claim that its gigaflop performance made it export-restricted — along with the 22-inch Apple Cinema Display and Mac OS 9.