WWDC 2002 keynote: the Mac OS 9 funeral

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1. 2001

   CNN interview after the Macworld New York 2001 keynote

   A five-minute CNN interview recorded after the Macworld New York 2001 keynote at which Jobs introduced the Quicksilver Power Mac G4s and previewed Mac OS X 10.1. The last of three post-Macworld CNN interviews (1999, 2000, 2001) preserved by allaboutstevejobs.com.

2. 2001

   Macworld Expo New York 2001 keynote (Mac OS X 10.1)

   Jobs previewed Mac OS X 10.1 ‘Puma’ (faster, with DVD playback and CD burning), introduced Quicksilver Power Mac G4s and new iMacs, and had Jon Rubinstein debunk the ‘megahertz myth’. The record 64,000-attendee show was Apple’s last Macworld NY keynote with Jobs.

3. 2001

   Seybold San Francisco 2001 keynote (Mac OS X 10.1 ships)

   Two weeks after 9/11, Jobs launched Mac OS X 10.1 to the publishing industry, demonstrating its speed, DVD playback and DVD-R burning, and showing Adobe and Quark software on the new OS.

4. 2001

   iPod introduction (‘1,000 songs in your pocket’)

   Six weeks after 9/11, before a small audience of journalists and employees, Jobs walked through the digital-hub logic, dismissed existing MP3 players, and pulled from his jeans pocket a 5 GB, FireWire-synced player with a scroll wheel: ‘a thousand songs in your pocket’, $399, shipping November 10.

5. 2002

   Macworld Expo San Francisco 2002 (iMac G4 and iPhoto)

   Jobs introduced iPhoto, a 14-inch iBook and the flat-panel ‘sunflower’ iMac G4 — a 15-inch LCD floating on a chrome arm above a half-dome base. Time magazine had leaked the design on its cover the night before; the keynote was streamed live in QuickTime.

6. 2002

   Macworld Expo Tokyo 2002 (excerpts)

   Jobs’s last Macworld Tokyo keynote: a Japan-market run-through of the iMac G4, the iApps and Mac OS X, with a 23-inch Cinema HD Display and a 10 GB iPod. Only about eight minutes of excerpts are known to survive.

7. 2002

   WWDC 2002 keynote: the Mac OS 9 funeral

   To mark the end of Mac OS 9 development, Jobs had a coffin wheeled on stage, laid a Mac OS 9 box in it and read a mock eulogy (‘Mac OS 9 was a friend to us all...’) to Bach’s Toccata — the moment that signalled Mac OS X was now the only Mac OS. The keynote also previewed 10.2 Jaguar, QuickTime 6 and Rendezvous.

8. 2002

   Xserve introduction

   A week after WWDC, Jobs introduced Xserve, Apple’s first 1U rack-mount server running Mac OS X Server, aimed at education, science and creative shops.

9. 2002

   Internal video on design with Jony Ive and Susan Kare

   A two-minute internal Apple piece in which Jobs, Jony Ive and original Mac icon designer Susan Kare talk about what design means at Apple.

10. 2002

    Interview about Pixar (c. 2002-03, DVD bonus / documentary excerpts)

    Excerpts of Jobs discussing Pixar’s origins and philosophy, probably from a DVD bonus feature or documentary (YouTube mis-dates it 2007). A related 2002 Apple design video features Jobs, Jony Ive and Susan Kare (‘it’s how it works, not how it looks’).

11. 2002

    Macworld Expo New York 2002 (Jaguar, .Mac, iPod for Windows, 17-inch iMac)

    Jobs demoed Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (iChat, Rendezvous, Mail junk filtering, Quartz Extreme), replaced the free iTools with the $99 .Mac, announced that from January 2003 new Macs would boot only Mac OS X, introduced iCal, iSync and iTunes 3, launched 10 and 20 GB iPods and the first Windows-compatible iPods, and a 17-inch iMac G4.

12. 2002

    Apple Expo Paris 2002 keynote

    Jobs reviewed the year’s software (Jaguar, iCal, iSync, iPhoto, iTunes 3), the iMac G4 and the iPod line for a European audience. Seybold San Francisco was held the same day, where Apple was represented without Jobs.

13. 2003

    Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 (Safari, Keynote, 12- and 17-inch PowerBooks)

    Apple’s ‘year of the notebook’: Jobs introduced Safari (Apple’s own browser, built on KHTML), the Keynote presentation app he said was ‘built for me’, the iLife bundle, AirPort Extreme, Final Cut Express, and the 17-inch and 12-inch aluminium PowerBook G4s.