Audio2008

Apple Q4 FY2008 earnings call – surprise appearance

Jobs joins the call unannounced at 5:17 pm ET, speaks for about ten minutes on non-GAAP iPhone results (‘If this isn’t stunning I don’t know what is’), says Apple has become the world’s third-largest phone maker by revenue, and in Q&A compares Apple to Babe Ruth and says cash is ‘not burning a hole in our pocket’.

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2008
iPhone Software Roadmap (iPhone SDK) event
Jobs, Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall unveil the iPhone SDK, enterprise support (Exchange ActiveSync), the iPhone Developer Program and the App Store concept (70/30 split), plus John Doerr’s $100M iFund. The event set up the App Store launch four months later.
2008
WWDC 2008 keynote (iPhone 3G, App Store, MobileMe)
Jobs introduces the iPhone 3G at $199, iPhone OS 2.0 with the App Store, MobileMe (replacing .Mac) and previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard. His noticeably thin appearance at this keynote triggered months of health speculation.
2008
iPhone 3G post-keynote interviews (CNBC and unedited feed)
After introducing the $199 iPhone 3G, the App Store and MobileMe, a noticeably thin Jobs gives a CNBC interview and an unedited satellite interview – the appearance that triggered widespread speculation about his health.
2008
CNBC one-on-one after the ‘Let’s Rock’ event
A short sit-down interview with CNBC’s Jim Goldman after the iPod event, in which Jobs discusses the new iPods and iTunes 8 and, pressed on his thin appearance, says ‘I’m doing fine, really’ and blames rumors on ‘hedge funds with a big short position in Apple.’
2008
‘Let’s Rock’ iPod event
Jobs opens with a slide reading ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated’ (after Bloomberg accidentally published his obituary), then introduces iTunes 8 with Genius playlists, the 4th-generation iPod nano and 2nd-generation iPod touch. Jack Johnson performed at the end.
2008
‘The spotlight turns to notebooks’ (unibody MacBook/MacBook Pro)
Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive introduce the aluminum unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro (with NVIDIA graphics and glass trackpads), a refreshed MacBook Air and the 24-inch LED Cinema Display. Ive’s on-stage explanation of carving a single block of aluminum is a defining piece of Apple design lore.
2008
Apple Q4 FY2008 earnings call – surprise appearance
Jobs joins the call unannounced at 5:17 pm ET, speaks for about ten minutes on non-GAAP iPhone results (‘If this isn’t stunning I don’t know what is’), says Apple has become the world’s third-largest phone maker by revenue, and in Q&A compares Apple to Babe Ruth and says cash is ‘not burning a hole in our pocket’.
2009
‘It’s only rock and roll’ — Jobs returns to the stage
Jobs’ first public appearance after his liver transplant: he walks out to a standing ovation, thanks his organ donor (‘I wouldn’t be here without such generosity’) and urges people to become donors.
2010
Walt Mossberg questions Jobs in the post-iPad-event scrum
About five minutes of camcorder footage shot by Kara Swisher of Jobs in the crush of reporters at the foot of the stage after the iPad unveiling, with Walt Mossberg quizzing him on e-book pricing, battery life and whether a review could be written on an iPad.
2010
iPad introduction
Jobs unveils the iPad as a ‘third category’ device between a phone and a laptop, demoing it from a leather armchair on stage (Safari, Mail, Photos, the New York Times).
2010
Organ-donation remarks at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
A year after his liver transplant, Jobs speaks publicly for the first time about his own experience as a transplant recipient and urges Californians to register as organ donors, following remarks by Governor Schwarzenegger.
2010
iPhone OS 4 preview event
Jobs and Scott Forstall preview iPhone OS 4’s ‘tentpoles’ — multitasking, folders, unified inbox, iBooks for iPhone, enterprise features, Game Center and the iAd mobile advertising platform. In Q&A Jobs is asked about Adobe Flash and background apps.
2010
D8 interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher
Jobs’ last long-form public interview (~96 minutes): Flash ‘has had its day,’ the Gizmodo prototype saga (‘somebody should make a movie’), Foxconn suicides, Google (‘they decided to compete with us’), AT&T, why the tablet came before the phone, PCs as ‘trucks’ in a post-PC world, App Store rejections, Flurry and privacy, and audience Q&A.