CNN interview after the Power Mac G4 Cube introduction

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 1999

   iMac DV, iMovie and Mac OS 9 event

   Back at Flint Center with an audience full of employees, Jobs shipped Mac OS 9 with Sherlock 2, then revealed the slot-loading second-generation iMac, the iMac DV with FireWire, and iMovie — pitching desktop video editing as the next big thing. It was Apple’s last Flint Center event until 2014.

4. 2000

   Macworld Expo San Francisco 2000 (Aqua unveiled; Jobs drops ‘interim’)

   In a marathon keynote Jobs unveiled the Aqua interface and Quartz graphics of Mac OS X for the first time — including the Dock and the line that the buttons looked so good ‘you’ll want to lick them’ — launched the iTools internet services, and closed with a ‘one more thing’: after two and a half years as interim CEO he was dropping the ‘i’ and staying on as CEO, to a standing ovation.

5. 2000

   Macworld Expo Tokyo 2000 keynote

   Jobs brought AirPort (AirMac in Japan), iMovie and the Mac OS X preview to Japan and introduced a graphite iBook Special Edition and a faster PowerBook.

6. 2000

   WWDC 2000 keynote

   Jobs released Mac OS X Developer Preview 4 with a redesigned Dock, told developers the public release would slip to a summer public beta and a January 2001 final, and cut WebObjects to a flat $699.

7. 2000

   CNN interview after the Power Mac G4 Cube introduction

   A short CNN interview recorded the day Jobs unveiled the Power Mac G4 Cube and dual-processor G4s at Macworld New York 2000. Companion to the CNN interviews of 1999 (iBook) and 2001 (Power Mac G4) on the same site.

8. 2000

   Macworld Expo New York 2000 (Power Mac G4 Cube)

   Jobs introduced dual-processor Power Mac G4s, new iMac colours (indigo, ruby, sage, graphite, snow), the optical Apple Pro Mouse and, as ‘one more thing’, the 8-inch Power Mac G4 Cube suspended in clear acrylic — a design icon that flopped commercially and was suspended a year later.

9. 2000

   Apple Expo Paris 2000 keynote (Mac OS X Public Beta)

   Jobs reviewed the summer’s products (G4 towers, new iMacs, the Cube) for a European audience, introduced a key-lime iBook Special Edition, and announced the Mac OS X Public Beta — on sale that day for $29.95 — the first time the public could run the new OS.

10. 2001

    Macworld Expo San Francisco 2001 (iTunes, iDVD, Titanium PowerBook G4, ‘digital hub’)

    Jobs laid out the ‘digital hub’ strategy that defined Apple’s decade: the Mac as the centre of cameras, camcorders and music players. He launched iTunes 1.0 and iDVD, gave Mac OS X 10.0 a March 24 date, and finished with ‘one more thing’ — the one-inch-thick Titanium PowerBook G4.

11. 2001

    Macworld Expo Tokyo 2001 keynote (Flower Power / Blue Dalmatian iMacs)

    Jobs repeated the Mac OS X, iTunes and Titanium PowerBook story for Japan, then introduced the patterned ‘Flower Power’ and ‘Blue Dalmatian’ iMacs and CD-RW iMacs. A same-day NHK television interview (-Z9cFdhHKB4) also survives.

12. 2001

    NHK interview after Macworld Tokyo

    Interviewed by NHK the day before the Macworld Tokyo 2001 keynote, Jobs describes the phases of personal computing, why passion matters in starting companies, and the importance of focus. An uncut version is on Archive.org per Wikipedia.

13. 2001

    White iBook (Dual USB) introduction

    Jobs introduced the redesigned white polycarbonate iBook — smaller, lighter and cheaper than the clamshell — to press in Apple’s Town Hall auditorium, a small-venue format Apple would reuse for the iPod that autumn.