After his keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs spoke to Newsweek’s Steven Levy “between sips of tea.” Some excerpts:

Levy: Will the new machines boost Apple’s market share?
Jobs: Our market share has already increased this last year by almost a point [approaching 5 percent], according to the sources. We’d certainly like to keep that trend going and we’ll find out. All we have to do is just convince four percent of the Windows customers to buy a Mac and we’ll double our market share.

Levy: You announced your first billion-dollar quarter for business in the Apple stores. Are you reaching a saturation point with stores?
Jobs: We tend to build 30 to 40 stores a year. We know we can control the quality that way, both in terms of the real estate selection and in terms of the build-outs. We have many years to go at that rate.

Levy: How is battery life with the MacBook?
Jobs: About the same—this with a dual processor! Each processor is as fast as a G5, and the battery life will be the same as [the previous PowerBook’s] G4.

Levy: At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, there didn’t seem to be any iPod killers.
Jobs: The problem is, the PC model doesn’t work in the consumer electronics industry, where you’ve got all these companies and some does one thing and another does another thing. It just doesn’t work. What’s going to happen is that Microsoft is going to have to get into the hardware business of making MP3 players. This year. X-player, or whatever.

Full interview, including Jobs saying that the PowerBook (now MacBook Pro) “form factors [the physical design] are perfect, we don’t know how to make them any better” and when he’ll start blogging here.

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