Steve Jobs' greatest Macworld video hits, 1998-2008
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The news that Steve Jobs will no longer give the keynote speech at Macworld disappointed everyone from casual consumers of Apple gadgets to die-hard Mac fanatics. His annual appearances weren't merely corporate product demonstrations – they were masterful personal appeals that highlighted his fantastic talents as a showman.
The Industry Standard has put together a YouTube collection of the many highlights from Jobs' Macworld keynotes since his return to the company in the late 1990s. While Jobs spoke at Macworld Boston in 1997, he didn't really hit his stride until the following year. That's where the videos start – the July 1998 Macworld expo in New York, in which Jobs demonstrated the iMac. The videos end with his 2008 keynote in San Francisco, where he unveiled the MacBook Air. Other highlights include the iPhone announcement at the 2007 Macworld, and his "one more thing" moment in 2006, when he showed off the MacBook Pro for the first time. However, there are a few other products that didn't fare nearly as well, such as the big hardware announcements from the 1999 and 2000 expos. These videos are included as well.
Follow the links below to see all of the videos.
Image: Apple Keynote
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"Oh, and one more thing..."
Oh, i want to buy one again, with this presentation.
Are there some on the stock still?
:-)
is this slide show working for anybody? all i get is a whitescreen
Me too, sigh.
Wow, talk about speaking a lot of rubbish on that first iMac! The mouse and the keyboard were possibly the worst designed objects I've EVER seen Apple release onto an unsuspecting marketplace. The keyboard was cramped, and the mouse - oh man. If you grabbed it and thought you were moving the mouse upwards then you'd find the mouse cursor move to the side. And the a hockey puck shape? That's totally unnatural and completely bad for your hand.
Interesting how he doesn't mention that the mini has a hard drive, not a flash chip.
Also, the mini was replaced by the nano, not renamed.
The iBook clip left out the best part, the introduction of the first built-in Wi-Fi networking an any laptop. Jobs showed everyone a bunch of websites, then slowly everyone realized that he was surfing wirelessly. He brought out a hula hoop like a magician to show there were no wires. The place erupted in applause. Classic showmanship.
yes.
It is youtube embedded(flash)
@Ian, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Too bad that the era of Apple keynote in MacWorld will come to an end in the next few days.
Boom.
I still think the cube is very sexy.
Whoa!
Let's not rewrite the history of the iMac. The "keyboard" was the exact same size as any other keyboard built since the 1960's, you are referring to the plastic border "around" the keyboard which had no effect on usability. As for the iMac mouse, nobody complained until years later. One quick glance told you where the button was, then you were fine. It seems the only people that complained were people that had never used it.
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Nah, you mean Macworld "magazine" based Keynotes will end, but Apple Special Event and WWDC Keynotes will continue as usual.
This is history... no, this is even more... this is how the history was created!
I hope to see more and more from Apple because they really pushed the old, slow, corporate monsters to the wall.
At my IT dept at school I had the task of picking up 25 of these bad boys from a computer lab and disposing of them. I dropped on on the sidewalk, made the coolest noise when the tube shattered and the vacuum equalized.
I liked when he introduced the iphone!
Vladsinger: I stand corrected. You are right that the flash-based Nano replaced the disk-based Mini in 2005. But the form factor and UI of the two devices were very close: The 4GB iPod Mini he showed at that keynote looks almost exactly like the 2GB iPod Nano that I own.
Using a new name for the Flash-based device also helped avoid confusion with Apple's Mac Mini product launch the following year.
Ian Lamont
Managing Editor
The Industry Standard
I never met anyone who liked the hockey puck mouse. I used it and it was pretty bad.
no, but lots on ebay, and occasionally a batch from a school lab (http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/sys/973152583.html)
and there's quite the following by clamshell lovers...i've put dvds & cd burners in several & given them to my nephews & nieces...they're great 4 kids, & helps break microserfdom;-)
and that 800x600 display can be replaced w/a 1024x768...apple always overbuilt;-) check out http://community.livejournal.com/ibookmod
oops: my #comment-8986 was in reply to #comment-8922
why have individual reply links if there's no threading or even referencing?
I agree. The world was introduced to wireless networking because of this keynote. Here's the long lost video of the hula hoop and the iBook:
http://thinkingbricks.com/1/macworld-new-york-1999-keynote-address/steve...
Another missing gem from the legendary keynote was when Phil Schiller took a "dive of death":
http://thinkingbricks.com/1/macworld-new-york-1999-keynote-address/phil-...
I wish the keynote was today, January 5, not Tuesday. (SIGH!) There seem to me more rumors rapped around this keynote than any in recent memory. At least the news today from Steve is good. Totally made my day.
the very old original imac keyboard was correct.
the very first mouse was bad, tough. and they changed it for a lot nicer one.
hey! what happened to waving your hand over it like some mystical sage to start the cube like they promised???!!!???
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