Pixar Q4 2003 earnings call – Jobs on ending the Disney talks

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1. 2003

   D1: All Things Digital interview with Walt Mossberg

   Jobs’s first appearance at Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s D conference, a month after the iTunes Music Store launched.

2. 2003

   WWDC 2003 keynote (Power Mac G5, Panther, iSight, iChat AV)

   At the first WWDC in San Francisco, Jobs unveiled the aluminium Power Mac G5 with IBM’s 64-bit PowerPC 970 — ‘the world’s fastest personal computer’, with a wind-tunnel-tested enclosure — previewed Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (Exposé, Fast User Switching), launched Safari 1.0 and Xcode, and gave every attendee an iSight camera for the new iChat AV.

3. 2003

   Apple Expo Paris 2003 keynote (new PowerBook G4 line; highlights)

   Jobs did keynote Apple Expo 2003: he recapped the Power Mac G5 and Panther, then introduced updated 12- and 17-inch PowerBooks, the first aluminium 15-inch PowerBook G4 (replacing the Titanium), and Apple’s first Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse.

4. 2003

   French TV interview on ‘Merci pour l’info’ (Emmanuel Chain)

   Jobs appears on Emmanuel Chain’s ‘Merci pour l’info’ the evening of his Apple Expo 2003 keynote, discussing the iPod, iTunes and Apple’s European plans.

5. 2003

   iTunes for Windows event (‘Hell froze over’)

   Under a slide reading ‘Hell froze over’, Jobs released iTunes and the iTunes Music Store for Windows, calling it ‘the best Windows app ever written’, reported 13 million songs sold, added audiobooks, and announced an AOL partnership and a Pepsi 100-million-song giveaway; Bono, Mick Jagger, Sarah McLachlan and Dr. Dre appeared in video and on stage.

6. 2004

   Macworld San Francisco 2004 keynote

   Jobs opens the Macintosh’s 20th-anniversary year by replaying the 1984 ad, introduces iLife ‘04 with the new GarageBand (demoed with John Mayer), the Xserve G5, and the $249 4GB iPod mini in five colors. The two-hour keynote also claimed 30 million iTunes Music Store songs sold and ~70% of the legal download market.

7. 2004

   Pixar Q4 2003 earnings call – Jobs on ending the Disney talks

   On the call Jobs says he feels ‘sick about’ Disney’s direct-to-video sequels, calls them ‘pretty embarrassing’, disputes Disney’s claim to own Pixar’s films, says Pixar has said no to Toy Story 3, and declares ‘no amount of marketing will turn a dud into a hit.’

8. 2004

   D2: All Things Digital interview

   Jobs’ second appearance at the D conference, a year into the iTunes Music Store. He reveals Apple had developed a PDA but chose not to ship it, says Apple is ‘not happy with iPods costing $300 and $400’ and wants to drive prices down, and says he is as proud of the products Apple has not made as of those it has.

9. 2004

   iTunes Music Store Europe launch

   Jobs travels to London to open the iTunes Music Store in the UK, France and Germany, Apple’s first stores outside the US, a little over a year after the US launch. The hour-long presentation walks through the store’s catalog, pricing (79p / 0.99 EUR) and iPod momentum in Europe.

10. 2004

    WWDC 2004 keynote

    Jobs previews Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (Spotlight, Dashboard, Safari RSS, Automator) a year ahead of release and unveils new aluminum Cinema Displays, including the 30-inch model. About 3,500 developers attended; the conference’s ‘Redmond, start your photocopiers’ banners became part of Apple lore.

11. 2004

    Motorola iTunes partnership video

    A short taped message in which Jobs announces that Motorola’s upcoming phones will play songs from iTunes, the partnership that produced the Motorola ROKR in 2005. Recorded days before his cancer surgery, it is one of the few Jobs recordings from the second half of 2004 and an early signpost on the road to the iPhone.

12. 2004

    iPod photo and U2 iPod special event

    Jobs’ first public appearance after his summer cancer surgery: he introduces the iPod photo with color screen, the black-and-red U2 Special Edition iPod, and ‘The Complete U2’ digital box set on iTunes. Bono and The Edge join him on stage and perform at the end.

13. 2005

    CNBC interview after Macworld 2005

    A 13-minute CNBC conversation recorded after the Macworld 2005 keynote, with Jobs explaining the thinking behind the $499 Mac mini as a ‘switcher’ machine and the flash-based iPod shuffle. One of the longer TV interviews he gave in this period.