iPod nano and Motorola ROKR special event

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1. 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.

2. 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’).

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 2005

   iPod nano and Motorola ROKR special event

   Jobs unveils iTunes 5, the Motorola ROKR E1 (the first phone with iTunes, which he privately disliked), and then pulls the iPod nano from the coin pocket of his jeans, replacing the best-selling iPod mini overnight.

8. 2005

   ‘One more thing...’ special event: iPod with video

   Jobs introduces the slimmer iMac G5 with built-in iSight camera, Photo Booth and the Front Row remote interface, then iTunes 6 selling TV shows ($1.99 episodes of Lost and Desperate Housewives) and the first video-capable iPod.

9. 2006

   Macworld San Francisco 2006 keynote: first Intel Macs

   Seven months after announcing the Intel switch, Jobs ships the first Intel Macs: an iMac with Intel Core Duo available that day and the MacBook Pro replacing the PowerBook.

10. 2006

    Disney-Pixar acquisition conference call

    Hosted by Disney IR at 5:15 pm ET, the call has Iger and Jobs explaining the $7.4 billion all-stock deal and Jobs’ move onto Disney’s board.

11. 2006

    Jobs and Bob Iger on CNBC announcing the Disney-Pixar deal

    Shortly after 5:10 pm ET on the day of the announcement, Jobs and Disney CEO Bob Iger appeared together live on CNBC for a brief interview touching on the Pixar deal, the ‘Disney-Pixar’ brand and the Disney-iTunes content relationship, both promising ‘exciting things in the future’.

12. 2006

    ‘Fun new products’ event: iPod Hi-Fi and Intel Mac mini

    A low-key half-hour event in Apple’s Town Hall: the Mac mini moves to Intel Core processors with Front Row, and Jobs introduces the $349 iPod Hi-Fi boombox, which he claimed had replaced his own home stereo. Remembered mostly as an anticlimax after the ‘fun new products’ invitation.

13. 2006

    Cupertino City Council: announcing Apple’s new campus land

    A seven-minute civic appearance in which Jobs tells Cupertino’s council that Apple has outgrown Infinite Loop and has bought the nearby HP land for a second campus. The site became Apple Park; Jobs returned to the same chamber in June 2011 for his last public appearance.