CNBC interview after Macworld 2005

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1. 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.’

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 2005

   Macworld San Francisco 2005 keynote

   Jobs reports 4.5 million iPods sold in the holiday quarter, introduces iLife ‘05 and the new iWork suite (Pages and Keynote 2), then the $499 Mac mini and the $99 screenless iPod shuffle (‘Life is random’). John Mayer returns to play at the end.

9. 2005

   D3: All Things Digital interview

   Jobs demos the upcoming podcast directory in iTunes (shipping ‘in the next 60 days’), shows Tiger, defends Apple’s lawsuits against rumor sites that published trade secrets (saying he would take it to the Supreme Court), and deflects questions about music phones and a video iPod (‘there’s no such thing as headphones for video’).

10. 2005

    CNBC interview on the Intel switch

    A five-minute CNBC segment recorded the day Apple announced the move to Intel, with Jobs explaining why Intel’s roadmap beat PowerPC for performance per watt. Captures the immediate framing of the decision for a business audience.

11. 2005

    WWDC 2005 keynote: the Intel transition

    After confirming Tiger’s success, Jobs announces that the Mac will move to Intel processors, revealing that Mac OS X had been ‘leading a secret double life’ compiled for x86 for five years and that his demo machine was a Pentium 4.

12. 2005

    Stanford commencement address

    Jobs’ most-watched speech: three stories about connecting the dots (adoption, dropping out of Reed, calligraphy), love and loss (being fired from Apple, NeXT, Pixar, Laurene), and death (his cancer diagnosis a year earlier). It closes with the Whole Earth Catalog’s farewell, ‘Stay Hungry.

13. 2005

    iTunes Music Store Japan launch (excerpts)

    Jobs flies to Tokyo to open the iTunes Music Store in Japan, its first Asian market, with a million songs sold in the first four days. Only seven minutes of excerpts of his presentation are known to survive online.