Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital Conference 2010

[4izm0v]

Apple was smart not to invest effort in Flash. Flash for mobile is dead. Steve Jobs had the foresight to foresee it.

[renatoabib]

And he was right all the time... Flash is officially death.

[mariloubrockmann]

fantastic video, I would love to see more! Take Care

[MrSharish1]

2:44 looks like a zombie sucking blood!

[FGRTTRTHTHTH]

R.I.P. Steve Jobs you incredibly great man. He turned a simple idea into the most successfull computing company ever. Congratulations. You deserve it.

[distraction5]

The Apple tree has lost its' gardener

[nealmcb]

I'm glad Apple doesn't include flash. First, web sites that rely on it are simply bad, cutting themselves out of much of the market by requiring technology that has always been more proprietary and non-standard than the rest of the web. So cutting flash out of the iphone and ipad helps those sites see the error of their ways. Second, it is a boost to open technology like Android that DOES find the development resources to make flash an option, and demonstrating that Apple itself is closed.

[turkgamecenter]

he is an arab and good man. rip

[distraction5]

@turkgamecenter is that what you really remembering him by? Being an Arab?!...He was a genius who cared less about his pocket or anybody's ethnicity, and more about people from around the world. That's why people are going to miss him.

[fuaburisu]

@Clarensee: honestly I have an iPad and surfed a lot on it and rarely ever needed flash. Most of YouTube vids are viewable. So you have crappy artist sites that are all in flash which is bad for accessbility anyway, and then the gazillions of mini games on portal sites, all of which exist in the App Store. Save for a few gaming sites that still have flash only videos, you hardly need flash at all.

[Clarensee]

Serious question: how do you work on the Internet without flash support?? I thought everything on the Net requires Flash.

[Stabby666]

@Clarensee Who told you everything on the net requires Flash?

[audioedge]

"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone." Steve Jobs 1985. Amazing.

[96whitels]

RIP Steve Jobs

[TheLAKERSareGodsTeam]

It's stupid that Steve Jobs, after having to learn the hard way that the market wants an open platform, has still thrown in behind the zero-sum philosophy of flash or no flash, Open or closed, managed or walled-garden.

It's not even stupid. Stupid would imply strategy. It's naive. That's why I like Microsoft. Microsoft bets on all the horses and let's the USER be the decision maker rather than some Apple developer.

[tipoomaster]

What song was that at the beginning?

[PlatoTheForms]

@tipoomaster The Beatles-Got To Get You In My Life

[cyberprodigy]

Memory storage device standards develop over time. From 8 inch floppy drives in old days to USB drives nowadays. Same is true with plugins and operating systems. Flash player 1., 2., ... , 10.1.

You can not say technology gets old if it is updated regularly. If you are saying that flash is technological rudiment, that following your logic - memory storage devices are technological rudiment too.

Just let users choose them selves - what platform to use. Stop put restrictions.

[hamzanajib]

@originalxchin did u find out ? i was looking 4 it also

[captainspacehammer]

yay! a video on youtube made on my birthday! wickedly total

[eholame1]

Mac OS X has ZERO virus :-)

In Dec 2006, Apple made $20 B. 2010=$59 Billion dollars! :-)

Apple Stores are pack always!

China will be buying more iPhones & iPads! Buy AAPL stocks before it hits $300 bucks in 2010. I say it will be $400 by 2011 :-)

Apple has ZERO debt!!!!

Apple has $44 Billion in CASH :-)

Apple is the #2 USA company only behind Exxon.

In 18 months from now, Apple will be #1 :-)

Take that msft.

Go Apple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[undertaker0010]

@eholame1 so you think no one is writing viruses for the MAC? The more the mac gets used - the more viruses that will be made for it. The fact that people think they are safe on a MAC is ridiculous.

[ldog1991]

@undertaker0010 prooflink or didn't happen. you know, there were viruses for classic mac os (9 and previous), but where did they all go when jobs returned to apple and made os x unix-based? (as his NeXTStep was)

[4evadunkley]

i wont all work it self out so long as we have fanboys and propaganda

[tastbinho]

VERY,VERY,VERY,COOL

/watch?v=VsGbC94U_eg

[moquiti]

If anyone has footage of Jobs addressing the rejection of Mark Fiore's cartoon iApp during the D8 conference, please post it on YouTube. Thanks.

[kakaka15]

Not her again

[mooseroochy]

Duh: The real reason: flash on iPhone/iPad means the end of the appstore. Most designers/developers won't be able to create games/apps in html5/Ajax for at least another 5 years. Anywayz; the iPhone doesn't have real web acces as far as i'm concerned. 

[ILoveDpu]

"If they like they they will buy them". Or if the advertising, "cool factor", and peer pressure gets people to think their products are the cats meow.

Apple is just starting to get hit with all the complaints they focused on MS back in the day.

No one in this is perfect but it seems as though Apple is getting a taste of their own ridicule medicine. Which makes me believe they are past their "spring".

[Cespur]

@ILoveDpu If "peer pressure" makes you buy a Apple product you have a very weak self-esteem. I buy it because it's better then the competition.

[ILoveDpu]

@Cespur I agree. And statistically the vast majority of new Apple users are people who are not tech savvy and have low self esteem. That is not every Apple user but the majority of new adopters.

And the term "better than the competition" I would point out is opinion. It works great for you and that is all that matters.

[alsimplicio]

@ILoveDpu Are you serious?? Apple is in its best age...since,,,EVER....

[ILoveDpu]

@alsimplicio I agree to this as well. But I think it's the peak. As is the history with all these tech companies. As Apple pointed to so many other companies that they were at their peak. As Steve jobs just described Flash at. Once you get this big you have to change your game. Because all the attention is on your company and more scrutiny is applied. How long is it before every Apple user stops taking the like that Steve Jobs knows what is best for you but you don't"?

[G58]

@ILoveDpu This comment has all the logic of a sponge. M$ get criticised because they have absolutely no imagination, no originality & no taste. They are only successful because Gates bought DOS, conned IBM, then the PC got cloned. So businesses bought cheap PCs & made everyone use them.

Apple is successful because people choose to buy Apple products that they discover work better than M$ products. No amount of advertising can make that happen. It's user experience and user choice.

[ILoveDpu]

@G58 Speaking of logic:"all the logic of a sponge". So it soaked up a lot of logic? Are you claiming that sponges are illogical? Did you proof read your comment?

MS got where it is because of strict business models. That means creativity suffers.

Creativity and innovation come from research and experimentation. Right?

MS spent $9 billion in R&D last year. Apple's total revenue = $9.87 billion.

Continued..

[ILoveDpu]

I'm not sure if anyone else here watches tech history as much as I do but I'd like to point out that each year at CES Microsoft (Bill Gates) would demo their vision of technology of the future. And even in 2007 Gates himself sat down next to Steve and described the future. There were all technologies MS pushed and helped develop the ideas for. Apple has followed by creating some of the very devices Gates talked about.

This is not a competition. MS works to enable. Not fight. Apple is the same.

[G58]

@ILoveDpu I've been studying both technology and business for over 30 years.

M$ is headed by a carpet bagger, a snake oil salesman who inherited from a greedy rich geek with a personality and imagination by-pass. M$ business philosophy is profit at any price. All they've achieved is to peddle an utterly flawed system designed for geeks, and enabled the masses to the lowest common denominator.

Business and technology is all about competition. You're very naive even for 27.

[G58]

@ILoveDpu I was referring to the aquatic animal, not the porous cleaning tool. For "strict business models", read: narrow minded and short sighted. If MS spend $9 billion in R&D a year, what have they got to show for it? Another prediction about the future that Apple [with far far fewer resources] manages to develop and release? A poor copy of an iPod? The loss making Xbox? Vista? You may watch tech history, but you've failed to learn anything from it.

[ILoveDpu]

@G58 you must be right. I assume you have spent a couple of hours on all the MS R&D project websites from around the world? Maybe Fuse labs? Maybe all the free software development tools that range from the minority report like control systems and robotics operating systems? Or the list of devices that windows embedded runs on? From servers to fuel pumps? Apple and MS don't compete the way you think they do. If you only look at a few products how are you to know how "narrow" a company is?

[ILoveDpu]

@G58 you must be right. I assume you have spent a couple of hours on all the MS R&D project websites from around the world? Maybe Fuse labs? Maybe all the free software development tools that range from the minority report like control systems and robotics operating systems? Or the list of devices that windows embedded runs on? From servers to fuel pumps? Apple and MS don't compete the way you think they do. If you only look at a few products how are you to know how "narrow" a company is?

[G58]

@ILoveDpu Ah, sarcasm. Here's some irony then: If M$ is involved in all these areas, and making a profit from it all, how come Apple, a small computer company, has just passed them in overall worth? Despite a near 30 year monopoly in the computer business, and all these other projects, they are incapable of sustaining their net worth. That's the very definition of a failing company. The future will not include any innovation from M$.

[albertogazzani]

@ILoveDpu Probably MS spent his R&D money in a bad way! Because Microsoft alway appers like a follower not like a first comer.

[iPadDifferent]

@ILoveDpu Dude , who spends $500 + out of peer pressure and believe when I say that I must see hundreds of ads for KFC a week, but you wouldn't find me any where near one. Besides I'm pretty sure I would have to be doing some heavy drugs to envision my iPad as a meowing cat, just sayin...

[ILoveDpu]

@iPadDifferent <-- I'll assume you are a big fan. I respect your opinion that you would not spend $500 bucks solely on peer pressure. And I don't think most people would. I do however believe that people not savvy in tech and who like toys will certainly be influenced. In combination with the advertising Apple gives. As well as frustration using windows, because they are not tech savvy, it's high chance they would have problems.

I'm not saying everyone falls under one rule.

[iPadDifferent]

@ILoveDpu

1:Apple has been working on the iPad since before the iPhone was even being planned, hence pre Gate's comments

2:The design of apple products is made in a way that appeals to "people not savvy in tech and who like toys", because in the end Apple knows they are the majority of consumers. This doesn't mean that they limit their devices on purpose, but that instead of focusing on many many features they focus on doing a few very common every day tasks better.

[ILoveDpu]

@iPadDifferent The tablet race started in 1989 by a company Pencept.

1987 Apple started work on the Newton

1992 MS released it's first tablet OS.

2001 Bill Gates coined the term Tablet PC and released Windows XP for Tablets. Since MS has been pushing tablets.

9 years later Apple releases the iPad.

I concede that Apple started work on this before MS.

You point out that Apple focuses on a small list of features while MS does not. But doesn't that point change the argument completely?

[mdeleon1969]

"try to make the best product we can" wish everyone else in business had the same business strategy.