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

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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’.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 2006

    NBC Nightly News interview with Brian Williams

    Brian Williams sits down with Jobs inside the glass-cube Fifth Avenue store the night before its 24-hour opening. The broadcast segment ran under a minute; Williams teased a longer conversation the following week.

11. 2006

    CNBC ‘Street Signs’ interview at the Fifth Avenue store opening

    With the glass cube behind him, Jobs talks to CNBC about the always-open Fifth Avenue store, Apple’s retail growth, the Intel transition (including why Apple chose Intel over AMD) and the iPod business. One of his more wide-ranging TV interviews of 2006.

12. 2006

    WWDC 2006 keynote: Mac Pro and Leopard preview

    Jobs, with Phil Schiller and Bertrand Serlet, introduces the Intel Xeon Mac Pro and Xserve, finishing the Intel transition in 210 days, then previews ten Leopard features including Time Machine, Spaces and Boot Camp while mocking Windows Vista as a copy of Tiger (‘Redmond, we have a problem’).

13. 2006

    CNBC interview after ‘It’s Showtime’

    A short CNBC follow-up in which Jobs explains why Apple pre-announced iTV and how selling movies on iTunes fits the Disney relationship. Useful as his earliest on-camera framing of Apple’s living-room strategy.