MacDailyNews reader “Boomer” just sent us an email and a link to a video he just uploaded to YouTube.
Boomer writes: Hi MDN, I think I found a little gem on my hard disk today: Steve Jobs’ rebuttal of Michael Dell’s historic SIDAGTMBTTS (“Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders”).
I instantly thought of you at MDN 🙂
I could not find the footage anywhere else on the web so it guess it hasn’t been seen for about 16 years.
MacDailyNews Note: Some iOS device users report garbled audio. Works on Mac. Try the other videos/video links below if using an iOS device.
Direct link to video here.
Steve Jobs responds to Michael Dell:
Direct link to video here.
UPDATE: 5:11pm EDT: Thanks to Torsten Alisch for pointing us to the full keynote via Vimeo user Guillaume Gete (where it’s apparently been for some two years!)
Jobs addresses Dell’s comments starting at 49:27 in the keynote video:
Direct link to video here.
MacDailyNews Take: Finally, the targeted Michael Dell imagery has been found! We haven’t seen this since we saw it live in 1997!
Thanks, Boomer, Torsten Alisch, and Guillaume Gete!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Boomer” for the heads up.]
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Beat me to it 🙁
I clearly remember when Jobs painted the target on Dell’s face in that keynote.
“We’re comin’ after you, buddy”
DON’T EFF WITH JOBS.
LOVE IT!! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Boomer – Please post the entire presentation!!
Friggin priceless!!!!
So, after Mr. Dell had to SIDAGTMBTTS, I bet he wished he never said it an hoped the SIDAGTMBTTS would disappear.
The should start each of the quarterly reports with video of these idiots comments. Like Ballmer’s about the iPhone not having buttons. No vision, imagination or class! I see the watch comments now.
F%@king GREAT. Couldn’t help laughing.
That made me smile. 🙂
Made me cry.
Works fine for me…
Man I miss Steve. He was a genius showman. Amazing how he could make anything happen once he put his mind to it. I like Tim Cook, but heis no Steve Jobs. Truly a unique person, impossible to replicate.
Excellent to finally see the Bulls eye on Mikey’s face. I’ve read about it so many times. This is the first time Ive seen it. I loved it! Go Apple. Great job Steve.
Sound was fine for me.. Great video
Miss You Steve.
What presentation was this from? I would love to find the full recording!
That brought a smile to my face today.
Fortunately, Steve did not also predict that in 17 years Apple would be most valuable company in the world. That would have got him thrown into the crazy house.
Priceless !
Hilarious. Oh the delicious irony of Dell being the one who had to give the money back to the stockholders, and then go private rather than face a humiliatingly low stock price and more transparent failure.
Worked fine for me on an iPad mini.
Heard great sound! Perfectly Clear!
Karma.
“We’re comin’ after ya’ buddy!”
1990s Steve Jobs needed to do all that to rally the troops (staff, developers, consumers). Genius.
Steve Jobs.
The giant of my generation.
Miss you Steve, hope you’re having a great time wherever you are!
the OG of silicon valley . R.I.P.
Here’s the complete Apple Keynote from 11-Nov-1997 including this respond to Michael (in better quality)
– Have Fun!
Loved it then, love Steve eternally! The Man with precision intelligence and prescience. The Man who said it as it truly is. Always. Love you forever Steve!
Steve was a brilliant keynote maestro. Watching this one highlight brings back all that excitement and energy of Apple in those amazing comeback years. It is nice, though bittersweet, to recall this time period when the new ads of the multi-color iMacs began to appear, announcing Apple’s return to innovation and prominence. Since I only became aware of these keynotes around 2005, I missed several of these gems. Thank you for sharing with us!
“We’re going to execute.” SJ
I wonder sometimes if Steve Jobs ever really had a true inkling of what Apple would become in less than 15 years.
The iPod, iPhone, iPad . . . . these were not things that existed even on paper when Steve Jobs talked about execution that day in 1997. Truly, it was a culture of excellence that made these products possible. And having seen glimpses now of the Apple Watch, truly this is still happening.
I think Apple is going to dominate for a very long time in the sense that, as a company, it only believes it is as good as what is ABOUT TO DELIVER. Man, if that mindset continues it will be a long time before other companies can corner the market on “magical” the way SJ’s team has done.
How many times Dell’s value is Apple these days?