Steve Jobs at D8 in Los Angeles on 1 Jun 2010
Steve Jobs kicked off the 8th annual All Things Digital Conference in Los Angeles on 1 Jun 2010. The three-day tech event will feature other industry leaders including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, AOL Chief Tim Armstrong and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg. Steve Jobs last appeared in the series of conferences in 2007 alongside Bill Gates.
Here are Steve’s main bullets from his one-and-a-half hour interview with hosts Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
- Passing Microsoft in valuation was “surreal”.
- Flash is a technology that’s waning.
- HTML5 is starting to emerge as a rival to Flash.
- Gaps on iPhone/iPads caused by HTML5 are getting solved.
- The market will decide whether iPhone/iPads without Flash is viable.
- There’s a debate about whether the lost iPhone prototype was left behind at the bar or stolen out of the Apple engineer’s bag.
- The Foxconn suicides are troubling but the 400,000-employee Foxconn factory is not a sweatshop. Apple is trying to address the situation.
- Apple has no plans to go into the search business because others do it well.
- Google started the competition with Apple by moving into the mobile platform with the Android OS.
- The iPhone OS was conceived for a tablet but the iPhone was rolled out first.
- Consumers are likely to migrate away from the PC to tablets within the next 5 years due to the evolution of demographics and demand.
- Rules for approving/rejecting an iPad App:
- It has to do what it’s advertised to do
- It has to not crash
- It can’t use private APIs
- It can’t defame other people
- 95% of Apps are approved within 7 days.
- The current Ad delivery system in the industry sucks and iAd hopes to do it better
