ABC News Nightline interview on the iPhone

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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’).

5. 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.

6. 2006

   ‘It’s Showtime’ special event: movies on iTunes and the iTV preview

   Jobs refreshes the whole iPod line (aluminum nano in colors, clip-on shuffle, brighter 5.5G iPod), introduces iTunes 7 with Cover Flow, and starts selling feature films on iTunes, with Disney CEO Bob Iger joining to announce Disney’s 75 titles.

7. 2007

   ABC News Nightline interview on the iPhone

   A six-minute ABC News segment in which Jobs demonstrates the iPhone for a network audience hours after unveiling it, explaining multi-touch and why Apple left out a physical keyboard. ABC later re-posted the footage as ‘Steve Jobs talks iPhone launch in 2007’.

8. 2007

   CNBC interview after the iPhone introduction

   Fresh off the keynote, Jobs tells CNBC ‘I think the iPhone may really change the whole phone industry’ and walks through the one-device pitch (calls, contacts, iPod, web, email, Google Maps) and why it is easier to use than existing smartphones. CNBC re-released the clip in 2018.

9. 2007

   Macworld San Francisco 2007 keynote: iPhone introduction

   The most famous product launch of Jobs’ career.

10. 2007

    D5: All Things Digital solo interview with Walt Mossberg

    Apple is ‘two businesses and a hobby’ (Apple TV); the iPhone ships ‘late June’ and is ‘three things’; Jobs demos YouTube on Apple TV, calls iTunes for Windows ‘a glass of ice water to somebody in hell’, and promises a third-party app solution ‘later this year’.

11. 2007

    D5: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates joint interview

    Evening session in which the two rivals trace their shared history: Jobs says ‘Bill built the first software company in the industry’, Gates says ‘I’d give a lot to have Steve’s taste’, they spar over the Mac vs. PC ads (‘His mother loves him’), debate post-PC devices, and Jobs ends by quoting the Beatles (‘you and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead’) and calling them ‘two of the luckiest guys on the planet’.

12. 2007

    WWDC 2007 keynote

    Before a record 5,000-plus developers, Jobs demos ten Leopard features (new Finder with Cover Flow and Stacks, Time Machine, Spaces, Boot Camp), brings out EA’s John Riccitiello and id’s John Carmack for Mac games, announces Safari 3 for Windows, and – to audible disappointment – tells developers to write iPhone apps as Safari web apps, the ‘sweet solution’ Scott Forstall demos.

13. 2007

    Interview about Pixar at Emeryville (2007)

    Jobs discusses Ed Catmull, his emotional and financial commitment to the first computer-animated feature, why follow-up products fail (Apple II vs. Apple III), why getting through the second film was essential to Pixar’s survival, and why Pixar keeps everyone under one roof for spontaneous collaboration.