A reminder that Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates will make a rare joint appearance at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference tomorrow. The two men will jointly discuss the history and future of the digital revolution in an unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation on May 30 with “D” co-producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
Both executives have made multiple individual appearances at the conference, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year, and is known as “D5”. But this will be their first joint session at “D,” and a highly unusual event.
In addition to participating in the joint session with Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs will appear on his own in a separate segment at “D5” to discuss the latest developments at Apple, including new ventures such as the iPhone and Apple TV.
The D5 conference will also feature other leaders in technology and media. Confirmed speakers include Google CEO Eric Schmidt; CBS President Les Moonves; Cisco CEO John Chambers; film director George Lucas; online pioneer Steve Case; Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore; News Corp. President Peter Chernin; Palm founder Jeff Hawkins; and Steve Chen and Chad Hurley of YouTube.
Like past editions of the conference, D5 will be an all-interview event, without canned speeches. The conference, which is sold out, is taking place May 29-31 near San Diego, California. For more information, see http://d.wsj.com/
To see past D videos, users can go to http://www.allthingsd.com
D5 is sponsored by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Houlihan Lokey, IDA Ireland, Kodak, NYSE Group, and Qualcomm.
“The two men will jointly discuss the history and future of the digital revolution in an unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation….”
I’m sure this is true. No. Really.
I want to see Jobs refute Gates’ “vision” on every point…
Ring…ring…ring…Steve pulls out iPhone…says he’ll call back later…hangs up…apologizes for forgetting to turn his iPhone off…
back to the interview…camera flashes and media go crazy…headline news…more free exposure…more iPhone hype…more iPhones sold…instant moneymaker…just by answering a phone call.
With 110 vunerabilities in Mac OS X this year, guess old billy goat Gates has something to gloat over.
“Look Steve, we could send some people down to Cupertino to help you with your OS security issues…”
*Begins to shudder at the prospect*
Kermit, er i mean, Bill will certainly spout about some forward thinking Microsoft product that has already been done while Steve will just pull out an iPhone and say ‘you got OWNED’!
Not that it would ever happen, but Steve busting out his iPhone and laughing in Billy’s face before yelling, “iPhone, bitch!” would be pretty funny.
Let me see Bill Gates is history, Steve Jobs is the future.
Cheers,
Tim.
I wonder how things are between George Lucas and SJ, and if Lucas has any ill will toward Steve for taking him to the cleaners on the price of Pixar way back when?
With 110 vunerabilities in Mac OS X this year, guess old billy goat Gates has something to gloat over.
Funny thing is: what have all those numerous (by your standards, that is…) vulnerabilities amounted to?
Exactly.
Big difference between vunerabilities and exploits… How many reported cases of OS X systems being actively exploited in the wild, while the numbers of OS X systems has been increasing as well…
MW = movement, as in “that brown Zune looks like a bowel movement…”
I hope the room they’re speaking in is big…
…that way, Bill can later claim there was an echo in the place due to the acoustics, rather than on him just repeating everything Steve says, five minutes after he’s said it, like he’d just thought of it himself…
Microsoft: your ideas, our plagiarism
Is 110 enough to be considered and Odd-issy?
Putty in your hands = 2001 Space Odyssy = MDN plant to spice things up. Always need controversy
The truly surprising thing about trolls
If you choose to troll through message boards for a computer (or a subject) for which you have disdain it has to make you consider your motives. Are you
A. Seeking entertainment by attempting to make people react?
If so…you not only have a low entertainment threshold, you have WAY too much free time.
B. Genuinely seeking to change minds and cause people to reconsider their belief? If so….you’ve chosen a particularly poor method since true believers will counter anything you say quite compellingly.
C. Attempting to defend your own belief in a somewhat oblique way? If so, it only serves to make your own belief seem weak since it will either prove out or won’t.
So…the truly surprising thing about trolls is that they persist.
It must come from a failure to analyze their own motives and to reach a reasonable conclusion about them. Bottom line?
Trolls are dumbfucks.
“I wonder how things are between George Lucas and SJ, and if Lucas has any ill will toward Steve for taking him to the cleaners on the price of Pixar way back when?”
Perhaps you should consider that Steve took Pixar and pushed it the other 95% of the way to where it ended up. It’s not like Steve stole something from George. You are under the misconception that Pixar was then what it is now, and it’s not. Basically Steve bought a software company and turned it into an entertainment company.
That’s what good investors do. Buy things that have little value that turn into bigger value. I doubt George has any ill feelings about it.
pr
Well thoughtout!
Will there be like before and after photos? Bill before, Steve after.
Point – “Look Steve, we could send some people down to Cupertino to help you with your OS security issues…”
Point – Not that it would ever happen, but Steve busting out his iPhone and laughing in Billy’s face before yelling, “iPhone, bitch!” would be pretty funny.
CounterPoint – Bill Gates then reaches behind his chair and dumps a box of devices running Windows mobile. “We got a few hundred milllion of these already in circulation, what you got?”
Touché – Steve Jobs “touché”
Google tv-links.co.uk you’ll like it. Install DivX at Apple’s Quicktime plug-in page.
Funny thing is: what have all those numerous vulnerabilities amounted to?
Yoda Says – “Just because there is a virus not, means not a hacker in your box.”
The preview is at:
http://www.ripragged.blogspot.com
I saw this on Cnet.
Steve and Bill having dinner in 2005
is this thing going to be filmed?
where and when could i watch it?
What if Steve started with “Hi. I’m a Mac…”?
>”Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to make rare joint appearance….”<
and guess who will be holding the joint
@macromancer,
“Perhaps you should consider that Steve took Pixar and pushed it the other 95% of the way to where it ended up. It’s not like Steve stole something from George. You are under the misconception that Pixar was then what it is now, and it’s not.”
I’m under no such misconception. My point was that Lucas was originally asking $30 million for the company but SJ busted him down to less than $10 million because he found out how desperate Lucas was for cash.