Steve Jobs Talks MSFT, Google, and Foxconn. Steve Jobs was at the Wall Street Journal's All Things D conference yesterday and the soundbites are almost as good as the ones from Carol Bartz's interview last week. Steve Jobs took to the stage yesterday at the All Things Digital D8 conference. During his interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the Apple CEO had plenty to say regarding tablets, iPhones and the PC industry. However, one of the more interesting things discussed was Apple's ongoing rivalry with Google and the great platform war with Microsoft. Steve, Kara and Walt were yesterday talking about how Steve spent a great deal of his career fighting Microsoft and discussed all the platforms around today. Aside from Microsoft and Apple, they hightlighted Android, Chrome OS, even Facebook. Mossberg said that they see it as sort of a platform war and asked Steve if he agreed. Steve replied, "No. "So you just woke up one morning and heard about Android?
" D8. D Conference. Photo: Asa Mathat/All Things D What better way to kick off Stevefest than the release of the full video from D8? If you have the time for more than highlights and an inter… Read more » photo: All Things D / D8 Conference If you don’t like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), odds are you won’t find much to like when Steve Ballmer talks. Photo: AP Images The end of May is a memory and AOL (NYSE: AOL) has yet to announce the fate of Bebo, the $850 million bet made by previous management. The End of the PC? I'm a Neanderthal sitting in the audience at the Wall Street Journal D Conference. It's a sea of iPads and I have a MacBook Air in my lap. Steve Jobs is talking about the end of the PC era. "When we were an agrarian nation, all cars, were trucks. But as people moved more towards urban centers, people started to get into cars. I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. One of the people most responsible for giving birth to PC's and to the personal computer industry, was saying: "It's over.
" That question was answered a few hours later. "I've switched to the iPad. Incredulously, I asked, "You can type an entire book on an iPad??! " "Watch me! " In the morning, Katzenberg took the stage, and enthusiastically proclaimed that he'd given up his laptop and was only using an iPad. A million iPads sold in the first thirty days. Lisa Gold, a Seattle-based researcher familiar with my work on email apnea, told me recently, "With my iPad, I don't have email apnea. DTA: NPRs VivianSchilleron:FutureofMedia. « Israeli Innovation: Vardi, Harde, Ditzler & Lichtman | Main | Justman & Maxwell Recap Highlights: The Israel Conference 2010 » June 04, 2010 NPR's Vivian Schiller on the Future of Media President and CEO of NPR Vivian Schiller, the only female interview on the D Conference stage (D: All Things Digital Conference) this year, was both articulate and refreshing about her views on where the media industry is heading.
She says that the broadcast side of the house at NPR isn't being cannibalized - digital content is all supplemental for them and it's obviously growing. NPR has been tapping into the developer community more and more and plans to expand their API in the near future. They apparently get over a billion requests for the API and the hope is that by extending it, it will lead to more creative forms of expression and distribution. Says Vivian, "The sky is the limit. There are guidelines of course. "The power of what we have is the combination of national and local. TrackBack Comments. DTA: eBays Donahoe: Future of eCommerce. « Bob Rosenschein: Israel the Startup Nation | Main | Israeli Innovation: Vardi, Harde, Ditzler & Lichtman » June 04, 2010 eBay's John Donahoe on the Future of eCommerce & BTW, He Loves the iPad eBay's John Donahoe was on the D Conference (D: All Things Digital) stage this past week....after the talk, a common thing I heard over and over again from attendees was that it has really become a site for sellers not buyers, or rather one that favors sellers over buyers.
In addition to learning what their core focus areas are today and where they're heading in the future (for example - who knew that fashion/retail/accessories was so big on eBay?) , they spent a lot of time discussing the role of Paypal. Walt Mossberg asks "why do you need them? " Most people I know avoid Paypal if they have an option for a number of reasons, including phishing. He reminds that eCommerce is only 5% of all retail. In the future, more and more devices will be part of our online purchasing experience.
TrackBack Comments. DTA: The Faces of D8: All Things Digital. « Facebook's Zuckerberg On Privacy, Plug-Ins & Personalization | Main | Have We Discovered Evidence for Life on Titan? » June 05, 2010 The Faces of D8: All Things Digital This year, the annual D: All Things Digital Conference, now in its 8th year, was alive and kicking. Last week, D8 attracted some of the most powerful and interesting people in the technology and media industries. Below is a sample of some of the faces and energies I came across in my path at this year's event, which was held at a new venue this year - Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California. A very passionate James Cameron (Canadian Film Director) says Avatar was the most powerful film and cites childhood, "I always liked nature and describes his connection to it.
Google's David Krane and Yossi Vardi Klaus Schauser, Michael Miller Ev Williams, Jen Limm Natasha Benningfield sings on opening night Jill Sobule, Renee Blodgett Claudia Cineceros from Cisco, Quentin Hardy from Forbes Qualcomm's CEO Paul Jacobs John Donahoe of eBay. How To Follow D8 LIVE. All Things D's D8 conference kicks off June 1 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
It's sold out, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out on the latest news from the D conference's stellar speakers, including such tech luminaries as Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and director James Cameron. Want to watch D8 live? All Things D will be keeping a blog with live updates and video from the conference. Attendees will be using the hashtag #D8 to tweet from the event (see Twitter feed below), and the All Things D Twitter account may also be posting updates (the account's avatar has been updated for D8, but, at the time of this post, the last tweet seems to have been in September 2009). D8's first session takes place at 6PM PT on June 1. Keep an eye out for posts by HuffPost bloggers Larry Magid and Andy Plesser (of Beet TV), who will be blogging from the event. GeekyGadgets:Jobs Says iPad Came Before. Yesterday Apple’s CEO talked about Apple and the iPad at the Annual D Conference, which was hosted by the Wall Street Journals Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, and one of the things he mentioned is that Apple had the idea for the iPad before the iPhone.
Apple had the idea for the iPad back in early 2000, and when Steve Jobs saw a prototype of an early Apple Tablet, he decided that they would be able to make a phone based on the platform and the iPhone was born. “I thought, ‘My God we can build a phone out of this,’” said Steve Jobs, Apple then shelved plans for their tablet device and began devolpoing the iPhone, which was launched in 2007. Steve Jobs also talked about Adobe’s Flash and compared it to floppy disks and serial ports, and he also talked about the lost iPhone protype which turned up in a bar. Jobs acknowledged that the next-generation iPhone photographed by Gizmodo was circulating as a part of the normal testing of wireless products.
Via Macworld. Zuckerberg On Privacy, Plug-Ins & Pe. « Justman & Maxwell Recap Highlights: The Israel Conference 2010 | Main | The Faces of D8: All Things Digital » June 04, 2010 Facebook's Zuckerberg On Privacy, Plug-Ins & Personalization People were anxious to see Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on the D Conference stage this past Wednesday night, where Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interviewed him in front of several hundred movers and shakers in the technology industry. The eagerness was no grave surprise given the recent surge of media attention around Facebook's privacy policies. At the end of the day, it's not just about whether your privacy settings are in place, it's about ensuring consumers know about them and prompting them to proactively set them up in a way where they feel their privacy is protected.
Kara asks Zuckerberg, "is there a level of privacy that applies to everyone? " Zuckerberg reminds the audience that simple privacy control has always been part of Facebook from the beginning. Another dodging of the bullet. TrackBack. Jobs on Flash, Mobile, Platforms, Sex & D. « Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk Gets Santa Cruz Moving | Main | Answers.com Announces Support for Smartphones » June 02, 2010 Steve Jobs on Flash, Mobile, Platforms, Sex & Developers Steve Jobs is not only entertaining when he's front of a live audience, but he's engaging, passionate and you feel what he feels 'in the moment' when he speaks - at least that's how it is for me.
For someone who cares more about delivering amazing products than quite possibly anyone in the technology industry, you can't help but have deep admiration and respect for the man, even if you disagree with his policies at times. For those who have attempted partnerships with Apple in the past, you know that it's not an easy place to navigate through from the outside, yet one point where it's hard not to agree - Steve Jobs has high standards and he doesn't deviate. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interview Jobs together, starting with the flash controversy.
"We didn't start off to have a war with Flash," says Steve. Steve Jobs: A Master... …and I mean that. Watching Jobs work his way through nearly 90 minutes of interview and audience questions, I really felt, for the first time, a sense of how strongly the guy feels for his work and his products. Then again, I found myself angry, several times. Angry when he championed the press as crucial to democracy, and implied the iPad would save our country from “descending into a nation of bloggers” (my view: we started as a nation of bloggers – pamphleteers like Thomas Paine).
Angry when he defended Apple’s data practices – to an investor in Flurry, no less – as protecting users’ privacy, when in fact it’s clearly about controlling data to Apple’s benefit to win advertisers, developers, and market share (you can certainly protect privacy AND share data. But I was also inspired. Read my Twitter stream for real time thoughts, but two things aren’t in there that are worth noting: one: Jobs said he was not going to do search, and two, Jobs said TV was too complicated to get into.
Slashgear:SteveJobs at D8: Flash, iPhone HD. The Wall Street Journal's annual "All Things D" conference kicked off tonight, and it started off with a presence that's all too familiar in the technology industry. A presence that actually hasn't made an appearance in a few years. And, above all, a presence that's a welcomed entity on any stage, in any location. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, sat on the D8 stage tonight with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, talking about everything that involves Apple. Of course, they took the time to talk about everything else, too; including Adobe, the next iPhone, casual gaming, and even security and the App Store.
After the break, take in the comprehensive coverage, from start to finish, noting all the important parts. The interview with Steve Jobs opened with some recent news regarding Apple surpassing Microsoft in market capital. Steve Jobs was quick to comment, saying, "It's surreal, but it really doesn't matter. " Of course, the lost iPhone came up. [via All Things D] City Brights: Zennie Abraham : Steve Jobs Apple iPad will not sa. At the All Things D Conference on Tuesday, Steve Jobs was asked the now all-too-familar question: “Will the iPad save journalism.”
Rather than chuckle or make the All Things D interviewers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher look stupid, Jobs gave an answer that was essentially feeding them catnip. Jobs said: We have a lot of goals for it, but one of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press…I think we need editorial now more than ever,” he said. One way to overcome the economic hurdle is for people to pay for content, he added, and the iPad offers a way to have applications rather than just static web pages.”
Those statements prove Steve Jobs himself is so in love with his elegant creation the iPad, he thinks it can stop a tidal wave and keep Charlie Sheen out of jail. It’s no wonder Apple had this awful iPad video I mentioned before: And Old Media expects to survive in that process? OK. Why does an iPad media app have to be a paid affair? Stay tuned.