Macworld Boston 1997-Full Version

[DPCB01]

what happened 3 years later with microsoft? what happened to the board of directors?

[ChadMichaud]

"...the rest of the prior board has resigned." LOL idiots!

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

Ahhhh....Bill Gates is a real god.

[themangodess]

Bill Gates is up there via satellite saving the fucking company and the audience still boos him

It's people like that that make the Apple fanbase sound like a bunch of faggots

[BillieBonse]

wow!

[nathanlaro]

We will miss you, Steve.

[dandmarcus]

They had a dream team for the board of directors

[bradsitzer]

Gates stole from Jobs like Jobs stole from Xerox!

[8UP1977]

@bradsitzer "Rich neighbor" and "Already stolen" the TV.

[srapy0877]

My assumption of "Stealing" is referred to the way windows was developed by copying the graphic user interface perfected from Apple but invented from Xerox.Apple saw the potential of GUI and the mouse and knew how to implement it in a PC.

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@srapy0877 No, they didn't know how to implement it, Xerox gave them the information HOW to implement it.

[bluedude34]

Poor Bill Gates.... all those boo's

[8c4e]

The beginning of the Jonathan Ive era...

[srapy0877]

Bill finally payed for what he was stealing years before.They are both so great

[tlink166]

@srapy0877 You need to be careful about that word stealing.

[msufandan]

OMG.... Steve has someone from IBM on the board.

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@msufandan Hilariously, he hated IBM immensely, but don't tell Apple users this.

[reNightlife]

Colin Crawford what a loser thank f they gt Steve back

[IDStatic]

Mapplesoft

[yourdad30]

Can't believe apple is the biggest company in the world

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@yourdad30 Except they're not.

[idelta777]

soo apple fanboys also hate Oracle?

[Phexyn]

A genius at work ...

[jebug29]

If I was Steve or Bill, I would have been extremely mad at that audience. First of all, you don't laugh right in an executive's-via satellite face. Second, that probably embarrassed Steve, because Steve was the one who probably planned that out for Bill to come on there live.

[Zoidbercules]

@jebug29 I read in the Steve Jobs biography that Bill actually couldn't hear the audience in that situation, nor did he know he would be projected as such a big picture / big brother type of view.

[clarence569]

Is larry ellison still part of the board?

[pote2639conan]

8:39 in a nutshell.....lol

[philipweissman]

Haha I'm watching this on an iPod touch

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@philipweissman Hah i'm watching this on a tablet with beta version of windows 8. 16:9 ration never looked so good.

[Turbo200X]

@splendid1000 Then watch some other video :3

[desiboi2007]

The whole place seems packed with Apple "Fanboys". Any mention of Microsoft and they BOO!!.. And guess what, most of this hasn't changed. Mac users still feel the need to put Microsoft products (espiecially Windows) down. I am a Windows 7 user; I like it, but I also think Mac OS X is very good also. Ask majority of Mac users their opinion of Windows - most respond with some "fanboy" answer.

I don't understand their way of thinking!!!

[kingcartwright]

@desiboi2007 I like Microsoft and Windows I even liked Windows Vista, I love Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7. Xbox kicks PS3 ass and I even had a Zune and preferred it to the iPod and i'm Mac User.. MacBook Air on OS X 10.7 Lion.... Were not all like that lol

[desiboi2007]

@kingcartwright glad to hear it!! I know its wrong to generalise but its definitely true for a large amount of Mac users, well at least most of the ones I've come across - just don't like that 'fanboi' mentality.

[wogfun]

It was very generous of Bill to help Steve and that shit hole Apple get back on their feet in 1997. Gates is a gentleman, Jobs is an abusive bully. Watch "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" if you want the whole story.

[sarek1701]

Thanks for uploading. :-) great memories

[quest8899]

Jobs drastically improved apple from 1997 to present day

[djtunerz]

@quest8899 No shit Sherlock.

[wittenberg5]

@quest8899

nah really? You lyin! LOL

[CutControlPunk]

Watching keynotes kinda feels like he is alive still.

[memo4148]

apple is SJ...SJ is apple...

[ordersol80]

thanks Steve the world is a better place thanks to your devices and computers

[rejuco]

Steve Jobs: "The competition between Apple and Microsoft is over!"

Ten years later the PC-bashing-commercials came out...

[chug20]

@rejuco At the time, they needed to forget that competition and worry about pulling themselves out of the fire. Once the flames were extinguished, and they had the power and money to do so, they were able to compete against (and beat at phones, PMP's, and tablets, plus total company value) Microsoft.

[dragan0405]

@rejuco and then again, after another ten years Apple and Microsoft bought together, or with other partners Novell patents, Nortel patents...

[amonxxx2]

like a boss!!! RIP STEVE

[subrenaud]

I bought my first mac in 1997. A PowerMac 8600... I wasn't sure about what i was doing. I did not regret it.

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@subrenaud Bought the same computer, went to win98 pLuS! when it was released. Built my first gaming computer also.

[keysersoze2k1]

Too smart, too brilliant.

[ptysnz]

Love it. If they all only knew what the future held, it wouldn't be an over statement to say beyond anyone's expectations.

[wkhlam]

When most people talks about Steve Job's Stanford speech, I always think this keynote is most important among all keynote - He's back to Apple and get Apple healthy again.

[nvidia20082008]

This video alone is worth more than an MBA

[gremista]

wow. great.

[frederico179]

An Apple a day keeps Microsoft away ;-P

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@frederico179 At least Microsoft didn't bite into the worm.

[Haplotype0]

He had matured enough to know, keep your friends close and your enemies closer by this point. His strategy was perfect. Revenge. Step one, let microsoft think they'd won. Step two, focus on your strengths and make them even better. Step three, create new markets for apple as a lifestyle brand. Perfect plan, perfect execution. The proof is in the pudding.

[1maxroman]

IE - default browser on the Macintosh :D

[1maxroman]

visionary :)

[sachinbadiani]

@urrutia86: no you are not the only one. It is to do with the waistcoat that he's wearing. It's so chandler! Rip jobs.

[Arjetube]

stay realistic: Bill Gates Saved Apple

[sicpher]

Steve Ballmer - the one clapping at 7:00  ..lol

[garys1255232]

商場上沒有永遠的敵人,jbos 的氣度令人敬佩

[sootmann]

2:51 - "There's certainly no shortage of pundits to give advice" -- LOL, some things never change.

[ReliabilitySuccess]

"I'm not going to be talking about products. I just need you to know we have some wonderful ideas on products" - Understatement of the century.

[TomCampOH]

Bill Gates comes into play at 27:00

[urrutia86]

Am I the only one that thinks Steve Jobs here looks like Chandler from Friends??

[KikoBarahona]

@urrutia86

funny, because Chandler appeared reading Macworld in one of Friend's shows in 1997, and on the cover was the headline "What's NEXT for Apple?"

Apple had just bought Next and brought Steve Jobbs back with it.

[FortNorge]

nice end speech ;)

[optikalefxx]

Steve's intro + IE as the default browser with choice + the last quote at the end made this video amazing.

[adirucio96]

R.I.P. Steve [*]

[shatanikmukherjee]

An awesome presentation- its almost 40 minutes long but did not feel a sense of irrelevance in the whole length for a single second !! A true leader.. After all- who else can think of collaborating with the largest competitor to revive the company ??!! Not only that-- put the CEO of the biggest competitor live on screen.. What a persona SJ-- we all miss you..Wherever you are-- be happy !! love from India..

[Kvndugan]

Watching this on my MacBook Pro, on a college campus where I haven't seen a non-Apple computer in weeks; you done good, Steve. We'll miss you.

[warex3d]

29:41 Microsoft gives apple 150 Million Dollars to rescue apple.

[dragan0405]

@warex3d w ww.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/2­9/microsoft_paid_apple_150m/

[MixtureMakeup]

god, bill gates looks and sounds like a mule.

[Water4Jeremiah]

Thumbs up if you came to see THIS video after Steve Jobs died.

[HBK1337]

@Water4Jeremiah i traveled back in time to 1765 so i can't, sorry

[Water4Jeremiah]

@HBK1337 That sounds as amazing as trying 'cal sep 1752' on a unix server.

[McRavel88]

@Water4Jeremiah

off course, genious...

[12elpolako]

@Water4Jeremiah

yeah, it was in a book :)

[Ahriman75]

"I found people can't wait to fall into line behind a good strategy". Sums up the whole Apple philosophy.

[JesseBochekTV]

"We're getting IE"

"Boooooooooooo"

Surprised to see so many adults acting like absolute children. Good lord.

[zxcvbnm1256]

Microsoft was an idiot to bail out Apple.

[carlosmashiado2]

@zxcvbnm1256 if they don't bail out Apple they will be the only OS developers out there and it will be a monopoly and that is ilegal in USA so yeah or they bail Apple or they can go out of business too if a court say so

[thedarkone2134]

@carlosmashiado2 No court in the US would ever do that in such a situation.

[carlosmashiado2]

@thedarkone2134 actually they try it back in the day but microsoft said they weren't a monopoly because linux back then linux was like pretty small and apple who was almost dead so yeah they could go out business legally back then for being a monopoly

[dragan0405]

@zxcvbnm1256 w ww.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/2­9/microsoft_paid_apple_150m/

[pachaloft]

Apple shares closed 4.94 (Aug 5 1997)...Next day they open 6.94 (40% up)

[a021692]

Dang tough crowd near the end there...

[sirpillow69]

240p I knew this this day would come again.



[Mcleary316]

"Apple has become irrelevant"... HAHAHA.

[cedric630]

Thank you for these amazing 14 years.

[luyubliyana]

"Apple believes in choice"

[teleny2]

That's me, yipping in the background.

[ScyllaEOL]

Stay hungry, stay foolish

[GoldGollum]

This video must be in the Guiness world records of Facepalm

[sh8ne87]

Rest In Peace ~ Steve Jobs . May Your Soul Rest In Peace

[rkmugen]

Big lessons here: Swallow your pride, ask for help, take your medicine, learn from your mistakes, recover, design, create, improve... and when you're at the top, shit... don't stop there!

[canbuffi]

He must have been unbelievably nervous... His sweater is buttoned up the wrong way throughout the whole keynote :). What an achievement, to turn around the company completely. You were a Genius, Steve. R.I.P

[spooieVAULT]

My uncle gave me his old black and white, 200mb Mac laptop from 1992 or so in early 1998, when everyone else I knew was using a PC. In 1999, I bought the basic tier PowerMac G4. It was the first Apple product I ever purchased. I have never looked back.

This press conference was downloaded not long after that. It was the first time I had seen Steve Jobs outside of brief appearances in "Triumph of the Nerds." I still watch it from time to time.

Good stuff, Steve. Your legacy will live on.

[XxNashNatexX]

R.I.P  :(

[XxNashNatexX]

R.I.P.  :(

[YiJustin558]

Steve Jobs, rest in peace. :(

[AlexTeddy888]

It seems Bill Gates is oblivious to the audience. NO offense, still love Windows.

[Heat3YT2]

@AlexTeddy888 He couldn't see or hear their reaction. He was just talking into a camera. Someone was signaling him when to start and stop. He was surprised afterwards at the whole scene cause he didn't know Apple would put him on the big screen like that. Jobs later regretted doing that too lol, but it was a great moment looking back at it now.

[tiftik]

@TheSluremus By "every single goddamned thing" I think you mean the multitouch interface, which is invented not by Apple, but by many researchers including Jeff Han. Apple just strapped it on a phone. See the pre-iOS TED talk by Jeff.

Android is a totally different operating system. It has a unique Activity lifecycle (only relevant to devs), a unique stack and intent based application interactivity model, a unique VM approach, a notification bar (not unique due to iOS 5), real multitasking, ...

[76ers]

This was when Google was just starting up as a company

[MrCuntyballs2U]

Why don't I want to sleep with Google

[clubhappybest]

Holy cow! I was at Macworld Boston in 97, but I wasn't at the keynote (I was 16 and in high school, ha). Man, it is just completely INSANE how the computer world has changed since Steve's return and the rebirth of Apple. it never ceases to amaze me, but at the same time, I knew it was possible... Apple rules!

[mandonov21]

tim will do good

[mubd1234]

I wonder how much Microsoft made off their investment in Apple...

[jcvalenz18]

@mubd1234 They made more than in their own stock ;)

[BigBrightBlueBox]

@mubd1234 900 Quatrillion USD.

What difference does it make to you? You won't see a dime of it douchefuck.

[mubd1234]

@BigBrightBlueBox I was just wondering. I mean, you didn't have to be such a douche in replying.

[BigBrightBlueBox]

@mubd1234 I know I didn't have to be such a douche, but I just can't help myself. You see, whenever I read an idiotic question posted by (I presume) an equally idiotic person, I believe it is my duty to reply to said question sarcastically as a form of protest. Because I would like for future civilizations to perhaps one day find my reply, below your idiotic question, and know that we weren't ALL inane nitwits.

[mwnau]

An absolute inspiration. 

[ilikepsyche]

for anybody who just want to see Bill Gates' appearance.

Scroll over to 30:33 minutes.

[david21979]

...14 years later... Steve resigned as CEO of the most valuable and innovative enterprise of the world... Good Luck to Tim Cook!

Long Life to Steve Jobs!

[fancyasian]

brilliant move putting Bill Gates on the giant screen.

[mrasg1303]

I loved everyones reactions when steve said internet explorer would be default browser XD

[CharlesP2009]

@benforshay Adobe didn't own Flash at the time.

[CharlesP2009]

@benforshay Sure, and Google was hardly in existence at the time, now they'd a bigger player than most of the companies listed in this keynote. Heck, I'd say they're more relevant and important than Microsoft these days.

[thecrazyguy129]

wow, i have never heard about this before.

[Eternu5]

this video should be required viewing for CEOs and business students everywhere. Jobs lays out his brilliant plan to save apple and make it ascendant. Everyone should watch this video once in their lifetime

[CharlesP2009]

@Eternu5 Can Steve Jobs become the CEO of the United States and try to make it healthy again?

[tysonesah]

anybody know what the song is at the end?

[groobz101]

Steve job's appearance 05:37

[TheMeVague]

No blue Levi's come on Steve.

[kamilmytnik]

I didnt know idiot apple evangelical fanboys existed back then. Those boos were an eyeopener.

[SLRok]

Its pretty awesome to watch this and then to look at Apples earnings statement. This is truly a Cinderella story in American business.

[myzel17]

"Bill Gates"

-----> BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

xD

[myzel17]

"STEVE JOBS"

-----> BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

xD

[MaxBearguy1]

@myzel17 why did you say boo to both? to get thumbs up on one of them? comon man you are destroying youtube

[jasonkerryphd]

Was this a surprise to the audience, or did they know?

[iampriteshdesai]

Steve is awesome, i hope he gets well soon.

[delerium2k]

please welcome our main man Billy G

[WolfSnapCom]

Steve missed a button on his sweater.. He missed a button causing the bottom button to be put into the penultimate button hole. Just sayin'. :P

[chriscrk]

I really hate the crowds in these keynotes some times :/ They can be very energetic most of the times, and it's very nice, but they're insanely rude. I find it pathetic, tbh. Do they have such little decency that they feel the need to boo at people? Imagine if you're on stage and they start booing at you, or your name is mentioned and everyone boo's. You'd feel quite bad. It's pathetic, and what's more pathetic, is that then they all cheer, pathetic hypocrites, acting on assumptions.

[NotAYTUser]

"Apple believes in choice"... I cried a little when I heard it.

[mostrochango]

Steve rules!!!

[XxEpiCGaMerZxX]

68 People are PC users

[TheSluremus]

That Apple and Microsoft are fierce competitors is not all that true. Sure, they have always competed in the PC market in a way, but I think there is a reason why people talk about PCs and macs as two different things. Apples real fierce rival is Google, after Eric Schmidt backstabbed Jobs and came up with Android not long after Google had partnered with Apple on delivering software for the original iPhone in '07. Google's the real bitch.

[apickle]

@TheSluremus Oh boo hoo, Apple has to COMPETE? What a fucking travesty. God damn.

[TheSluremus]

@apickle Competition is all good, but Google's using dirty tricks. They're just copying every single goddamned thing! Android is basically the open sourced version of iOS, with all the pros and cons that comes with it. The point is that it's exactly the same fucking thing, with practically nothing really new! Google should concentrate their efforts in areas where they actually do innovate themselves. Like that self driving car, I mean, that's just great stuff!

[shady777]

@TheSluremus that's true it was an asshole move but the market is better because of the fierce competition. Rooting for iOS though. And hey Google's software runs great on my iPhone ( =

[Flashwar]

@TheSluremus Sure, but how 'bout the decades before Google even existed...come on...off course MSFT en AAPL are competitors. How about you make this statement to the Windows Phone group or to Apples' MAC group. This video is from 1997 after all...Google did not yet exist and Schmidt was still at Novell.

[tmckenney7]

@TheSluremus This is not entirely true. Android has been in development since around 2003 before Google bought Android, Inc. Even then Google Acquired them around 2005. While it was released in 2008, a year after the iPhone, and has a lot of similarities (Which may or may not have been borrowed), This wasn't a simple knock-off of iOS. It was meant to be a new approach to mobile operating systems. It was just stuck in dev hell. Look it up.

[plasma4ce]

@TheSluremus O.o they're watching!

[ithakra]

@TheSluremus very true good sir. excellent comment. google might stomp apple post steve jobs. we will see. :)

[jackel2072]

@ithakra Google + Amazon

[djtoontk]

I thought Jobs was running NeXT between the time he left apple and came back

[AppleTechHelper]

@djtoontk he did both.

[joeljrichards]

@djtoontk he was. Although NeXT was never a financial success.

[freddyr0]

Questions is...where would apple be without Microsoft investment? :) Steve Jobs is incredible, but Microsoft hand was a life saver. They are great friends...and I hate that developers are so ridiculous.

[Molo9000]

@freddyr0

150million USD really wasn't a lot.

Apple back then had a annual revenue of around 7 billion USD and had just survived a loss of almost 2 billion USD over a period of 2 years.

What made Apple profitable again was better management and products.

[iampriteshdesai]

@Molo9000 what made apple profitable was the return of jobs and gil amelio

[whewmancool]

what apple can do without steve jobs? apple fail, Steve Jobs Pwns them all

[intelcore2duo43]

I just love how the whole crowed goes crazy when Steve stated that all of the board members have resigned form Apple lmao. Boy, Apple must have been in such bad shape back then for that to happen.

[Marcianow]

You see Steve Jobs having some problems saying that Apple needs help from partners (26:30) :)

[Marcianow]

@jcgtubez Even though I can't wait for Lion, I can surely see enough (millions and millions) of people buying (pirating) Windows 8.

[nfaswimboy]

pretty sure steve jobs was like "i'm back, bicthes"

[Vitruviux]

They could've made Steve a janitor at Apple and he'd still be the leader of Apple and the face of the company.

[rquader]

What a speech

[Gunner3210]

WTF. SJ is NOT wearing his black turtle neck with blue jeans. 

[rivercraig]

@Gunner3210 In 1997 Steve was a white shirt and vest guy, the turtle neck came in 1998

[judenihal]

This is probably what the Spice Girls used (whoever made their music) to produce their tracks, they used a Macintosh with Pro Tools III. It was probably as good as Sony Acid Pro today.

[judenihal]

I don't like Apple computer in my opinion. My Uncle Desmond is a Mac fan but I like PC's the best.

[JeremyL1983]

@judenihal i used to think like you, i love PC still because of all the awesome games and software availability. But after working in a company that uses Mac, i discover how awesome and innovative Mac work apps in iWorks really are. Makes Windows look like a half baked OS

[judenihal]

@JeremyL1983 I prefer the MAC OS to Windows because Windows NT kernel it just makes me feel its an incompatible operating system compared to the MS DOS Kernel but if you think about it, the UNIX kernel is a million times better, but I hate Mac because it is very proprietary and I have been using Windows all my life. I know my way around Windows. Macs are just harder to use. Once I go into a technical school, they will teach me how to use Linux and Mac but right now, I have no idea how to use it.