Apple CEO Steve Jobs is speaking with The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg at the D5 conference today.
Some excerpts John Paczkowski report for AllThingsD:
• Walt to Jobs: When you changed your name to Apple Inc., people wondered if Apple was exiting the personal computer business. Is it? Jobs says no and stresses Apple’s commitment to the PC business, touts Apple’s forthcoming Leopard operating system.
• Jobs says Apple is on track to ship iPhone in late June as planned. Walt: Like the last day of June? Jobs: (Laughs) Yeah, probably.
• Walt: Any undisclosed iPhone features you’d like to share with us today? Jobs: (Smiles) No.
• Jobs: The iPhone is the best iPod we’ve ever made.
• Apple TV: “The other thing you can do is buy TV shows.” Jobs pulls up a clip from “The Office.” He says sending stuff from your computer to the Apple TV isn’t the main deal here. “Wouldn’t it be great if you could see YouTube on your TV?” Apple will be offering a free software upgrade come June that will allow Apple TV users to view YouTube videos on their televisions.
• Walt: How many copies of iTunes are out there? Jobs: Lots. Several times more than the number of iPods. Walt notes that that makes it one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software out there–and it’s predominantly on Windows machines. “That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes. Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering glasses of ice water to people in hell.”
• From the Q&A: All indications appear that the iPhone is closed, we’d love to develop apps… Jobs: This is an important tradeoff between security and openness. We want both. We’re working through a way… we’ll find a way to let 3rd parties write apps and still preserve security on the iPhone. But until we find that way we can’t compromise the security of the phone.
• Jobs on iPhone and network speed: Interesting thing, it automatically switches to WiFi automatically… But if you’re in a place and you want to join a WiFi network you haven’t joined before it prompts you. But it’s EVERYWHERE. There’s like 10x more WiFi out there than I ever thought there was. WiFi is faster than any 3G, and EDGE is very fast too.
• Jobs on his health: I’m still vertical! (laughter) I’m feeling great, thanks.
• Jobs on AAC vs. MP3: We chose AAC because it’s a much better encoder… We don’t own it. Anyone can license it… We’re not trying to keep anyone out, we’re just trying to use a superior audio technology.
Much more via AllThingsD here and also via Engadget here.
UPDATE: 9:29pm EDT: The Steve Jobs interview is now available:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “gaufre” for the heads up.]
Glad to see AppleTV upgrades. I might consider the purchase depending on the actual upgrades.
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could see YouTube on your TV?”
Crappy, jerky, pixilated YouTube on your HDTV?
Yeah, man…great…
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Quote of the century:
How many copies of iTunes are out there? Jobs: Lots. Several times more than the number of iPods. Walt notes that that makes it one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software out there–and it’s predominantly on Windows machines. “That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes. Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering glasses of ice water to people in hell.”
“That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes. Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering glasses of ice water to people in hell.”
Great analogy!
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“Glasses of ice water to people in Hell!”
ROTFL
Apple just hit +3.90% in stocks 😀
“That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes. Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering glasses of ice water to people in hell.”
Rofl
YouTube on my new plasma HD isn’t exactly the destination I had in mind when I bought it.
I don’t see any reason to go there.
12:23pm – Funny question: this is your gradual exit out of the computer business with the name change?
No. If you come to WWDC we’re rolling out our new version of OSX — massive investments in desktops. You’ll love it.
I like the sound of that.
Walt: How many copies of iTunes are out there? Jobs: Lots. Several times more than the number of iPods. Walt notes that that makes it one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software out there–and it’s predominantly on Windows machines. “That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes. Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering glasses of ice water to people in hell.”
Classic. Wonder if Steve and Bill will have a chuckle about that comment over dinner during conference… lol
desktops? I would have preferred him to say notebooks:-(
So because you don’t see any reason, means nobody should have it? Hell, I want youtube on my iphone and my apple tv.
By the way, do all of you numnuts think everyone has 2 meter tvs or something?
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iPhone to have 3G!! – one problem solved!!
2: No GPS
3: Not enough storage
4: No frigging laser beams on their heads. (to project on the wall silly!)
iPhone is running Mac OS X, a stripped down version with a different interface. That will of course be quickly adopted for some apps. Storage for the apps and files being a MAJOR problem.
Guess this is where Google apps come in, Steve has finally realized that 95% of vunerabilites/exploits are in applications. Keep the cheap 3rd party shoddy code warriors off the iPhone!
I really don’t understand anybody who even considers Apple would exit the computer industry. Do you really think Apple would create the best consumer gadgets on the planet using Windows computers? No. Apple creates its own tools first, and then builds the products using them. We reap the benefits of that.
Keynote is a good example. It was developed for Steve first, and then turned into a product for consumers.
“That’s right. … It’s like offering glasses of ice water to people in hell.”
That is f–cking CLASSIC
ROTFLMAO x 1,000,000
What’s with the innuendo?
“Is that the faint outline of an iPhone I see in Steve Jobs’ pocket?”
“Presumably, iPhone will deliver the “big-boy Internet” experience.”
The big boy experience isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, seriously folks, check out http://www.lpsg.org
Notebooks are not for serious computing. They’re for namby pamby coffee shop computing.
He didn’t say much, did he? The only new info is the YouTube plugin which actually is already available if people are willing to hack their [Apple]TV. I wish Walt had asked him more pointed questions and had gotten more info out of him. Oh well, it’s less than a month to WWDC anyway and we’ll get all the info on Leopard and iPhone there.
The ice water joke is absolutely GREAT! I had to read it three times before I actually believed what I was reading. That is almost the equivalent of spitting in Bill Gates’ face.
“Notebooks are not for serious computing. They’re for namby pamby coffee shop computing.”
That’s either the dumbest or funniest statement I’ve read today.
I can’t decide which. Maybe it’s both?
What about all these people that are getting busted for using WiFi without authorization? Some guy in Michigan just had to plea bargain down from a felony for using an open network. The laws gotta be changed to keep people from going to farking jail because they wanted a weather report or a google map.
Steve should be careful tonight at dinner.
I’ll bet you that Bill will try to spit in Steve’s ice water.
I don’t like the quality of Flash video. I find http://www.divx.com much nicer.
Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering glasses of ice water to people in hell.”
The man’s a genius!