D5: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates joint interview

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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’.

4. 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.

5. 2007

   Macworld San Francisco 2007 keynote: iPhone introduction

   The most famous product launch of Jobs’ career.

6. 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’.

7. 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’.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 2007

    Mac special event: aluminum iMac, iLife ‘08, iWork ‘08

    Jobs’ only Mac-focused event of 2007: the thin aluminum iMac with glass front, a refreshed Mac mini, iLife ‘08 (iPhoto Events, new iMovie, .Mac Web Gallery) and iWork ‘08 with the new Numbers spreadsheet. He noted that the Mac business was growing faster than the PC market with the iPhone ‘halo’.

11. 2007

    Press Q&A with Jobs, Tim Cook and Phil Schiller

    Rare footage of Jobs in an ad-hoc press forum, flanked by Cook and Schiller: he says a multi-touch iMac is ‘not sure it makes sense’ for a computer, promises Apple TV news ‘soon’, defends desktops, and quips about the Intel relationship while Schiller explains why Macs carry no ‘Intel Inside’ sticker (‘We can’t ship junk’).

12. 2007

    ‘The Beat Goes On’ special event: iPod touch

    Jobs reworks the whole iPod line: the iPod classic, a squat video-playing nano, and the iPod touch – an iPhone without the phone, with Wi-Fi, Safari and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (with a Starbucks tie-in).

13. 2007

    London iPhone launch press conference (excerpts)

    Jobs appears in London to announce that the iPhone would go on sale in the UK on November 9, 2007 exclusively on O2, Apple’s first international carrier deal, and takes questions from the British press. Only a five-minute set of excerpts is known online.