Steve Jobs kicked off the D8 conference and though he did not reveal anything substantial about the future endeavors, he did spill a few things about the stolen iPhone fiasco, why couldn’t they adopt Flash, Foxconn suicides, Google as a competitor and more. Few notable quotes from the interview are below:
On Flash – “Sometimes when we get rid of things, people call us crazy….But sometimes you just have to pick the things that are going to be the right horse to ride forward….And Flash has had it’s day…We don’t think Flash makes a great product, so we’re leaving it out. Instead, we’re going to focus on technologies that are in ascendancy. If we succeed, people will buy them and if we don’t they won’t….And, so far, I have to say, people seem to be liking the iPad. We sell like three iPads a second.”
On the lost iPhone – “To make a wireless product work well, you have to test it. And one of our employees was carrying one and there’s a debate about whether it was left in a bar or stolen.”
On iPhone and iPad — “I’ll tell you a secret. It began with the tablet. I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on with your fingers. I asked our people about it. And six months later, they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys. He got scrolling working and some other things, and I thought, ‘my God, we can build a phone with this!’ So we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the iPhone.”
Here are some video highlights from the interview.
AT&T Network Woes:
Adobe Flash:
Apple TV:
Lost iPhone:
iPad:
Google and Android:
iAds:
[Via AllThingsD D8]
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