AppleInsider StaffThe conversation lead by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal took place a week ago, and spanned more than an hour and a half. Jobs spoke candidly on the lost prototype iPhone obtained by Gizmodo, on his company's rejection of Adobe Flash from the iPhone OS, and the controversy over a number of suicides at manufacturing partner Foxconn's facility in Shenzhen, China.
A great deal of the conversation focused on Apple's newly released iPad, which Jobs said signals the start of an "uncomfortable" transition to the post-PC era. The chief executive said he believes the transition away from the traditional PC as we know it is inevitable, but it's a question of how long that change will take.
"The transformation of the PC to new form factors like the tablet is going to make some people uneasy because the PC has taken us a long ways," Jobs said. "The PC is brilliant... and we like to talk about the post-PC era, but it's uncomfortable."
Jobs also said that he views the Apple TV as a hobby because there isn't a viable market for set top boxes, he admitted there could be an advantage to a multi-carrier U.S. iPhone, and revealed that Apple made changes to its iPhone software development kit to protect user privacy.
The video can be seen in at the D8 Conference website, or embedded in its entirety below:
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Was looking for this all over the place.
Hmmm. All I see is a broken link on my iPhone. This video must be a (gasp) flash video.
Guess I'll need a real Mac to watch Steve Jobs talk about Flash.
Sorry. Couldn't resist. I know, flash is bad. Bad Flash!
Was looking for this all over the place.
I don't know if this is a problem with the site or a bug in iPad's Safari, but after watching about 15 mins of any video on there, it reloads the page and the video starts from the beginning. Obviously you can scrub to the last place, but it's a little annoying.
It doesn't do it on my Mac, so wonder if it's a memory thing. Anyone else had this? It only occurs on long clips, not the 6 minute ones. I was watching the 2005 interview with Jobs and it happened twice.
Hmmm. All I see is a broken link on my iPhone. This video must be a (gasp) flash video.
Guess I'll need a real Mac to watch Steve Jobs talk about Flash.
Sorry. Couldn't resist. I know, flash is bad. Bad Flash!
No, all the videos work on the iPad and iPhone... aside from the problem I just mentioned.
I wonder if it will be on iTunes. I downloaded the last All Things Digital he attended.
"The transformation of the PC to new form factors like the tablet is going to make some people uneasy because the PC has taken us a long ways," Jobs said. "The PC is brilliant... and we like to talk about the post-PC era, but it's uncomfortable."
If Steve is going to forsake the personal computer, computer using people are going to forsake him.
Microsoft and Adobe would be very happy to fill the gap of his niche market share.