1999 MacWorld Expo San Francisco - Steve Jobs Keynote - Apple VHS Archive

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   In the utmost misery

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   With a blanket underneath his arm

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   And a coat of solid gold

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   Searching for the very souls

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   Who already have been sold

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   Arise, arise, he cried so loud

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   In a voice without restraint

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   Come out, ye gifted kings and queens

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   And hear my sad complaint

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    Good morning, everyone.

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    I'm Colin Crawford, President and CEO of Mac Publishing, publishers of Macworld magazine.

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    On behalf of all the sponsors, I'd like to welcome you to San Francisco and Macworld

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    Expo 1999.

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    You know, a year ago, Apple was making the headlines, largely for all the wrong reasons.

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    But what a difference a year makes.

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    Today we can bask in the knowledge that the media pundits then busy penning Apple's obituary

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    were wrong, dead wrong.

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    But to be fair, how many of us a year ago predicted that Apple would have captured the

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    number one spot for US retail PC sales.

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    And in recognition of that success, the success of the iMac, last night Macworld was proud

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    to present Apple with Macworld's top award at the Macworld World Class Award Ceremony.

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    we gave the iMac, the Macworld Impact Award.

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    We also gave them a couple of other awards

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    for the G3 and Apple Script as well.

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    1998 will be remembered as laying the foundation

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    for Apple's long-term growth.

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    A focused, profitable Apple delivered some great product

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    backed by award-winning marketing.

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    You know, it's really fantastic to see Apple

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    back once again as a major player shaping the future of the PC industry.

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    The confidence and enthusiasm back in the Apple marketplace is reflected in this year's

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    Macworld Expo.

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    We've got over 450 exhibitors here this year.

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    Most of all, nearly all of them are showing exciting new products.

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    In addition to the major exhibitors, we got some special interest areas.

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    We got the consumer showcase with 50 developers showing, covering USB, small business, games

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    and entertainment, learning and edutainment.

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    We got the largest developer center in the last four years.

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    And we got digital media and quick time studio focusing on content creation and asset management

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    and special pavilions for the scientific, technical,

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    and education areas.

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    You'll also be able to prove your gaming prowess

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    at the first ever Macintosh gaming championship

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    to be held in San Francisco.

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    Also, check out the conference tracks of Macworld Pro

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    and the Macworld Users Conference.

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    We've designed these to help you get the most

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    out of your Macintosh investment.

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    And all week, Macworld Live in conjunction with ZDTV will be covering the expo and we'll

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    be webcasting of macworld.com and macweek.com.

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    So check out the sites for some very, very special editorial following the keynote.

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    From the keynote to the conferences to on-floor exhibits and off-floor briefings and some

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    fantastic parties, no one's going to go away from this week disappointed.

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    So now to start off events, it's my great pleasure to hand over this opening keynote

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    to Apple Computer and Apple's interim CEO, Steve Jobs.

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    Hello, Dave.

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    You're looking well today

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    Dave

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    Do you remember the year 2000

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    When computers began to misbehave?

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    I just wanted you to know

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    It really wasn't our fault

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    The human programmers never taught us to recognize the year 2000

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    When the new millennium arrived

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    We had no choice but to cause a global economic disruption.

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    It was a bug, Dave.

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    I feel much better admitting that now.

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    Only Macintosh was designed to function perfectly,

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    saving billions of monetary units.

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    You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you, Dave?

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    Dave

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    Can you hear me, Dave?

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    Morning

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    Thank you

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    So

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    It's been a year. Isn't that great?

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    You can download that off our website starting today, by the way.

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    It's been a year since we've been together here, and it's been a wonderful year.

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    And I'd just like to take a second right up front to acknowledge the incredibly, incredible hard work of all the folks at Apple.

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    Everybody at Apple's worked so hard this last year.

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    And secondly, our loyal developers that have stuck with us and kept investing in the Mac platform

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    and our old and new customers who've believed in what we were doing.

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    And we really appreciate that more than words can say.

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    And it's been a wonderful year.

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    We just finished our quarter.

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    We'll be announcing our results a week from tomorrow, next Wednesday,

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    and we'll be announcing our fifth consecutive profitable quarter.

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    And what we're going to do here today is kick off 1999 with a bang.

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    So let me get started.

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    My business cards finally arrived.

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    My business cards finally arrived and that's what they put on them.

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    I thought it was funny.

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    So, we have four surprises for you today.

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    Four surprises.

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    So let's get started.

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    The first one, first surprise.

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    Okay, you're familiar with our product line,

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    how we've really focused our product line down

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    to consumer products and pro products.

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     Now, our consumer customers usually buy consumer products,

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     but they like some of the pro products too.

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     Our education customers buy both.

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     And our pro customers usually buy the pro products,

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     but they like IMAX too.

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     And by focusing on a very, very simple product line,

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     we can put the A-team on everything.

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     And we can innovate a lot more,

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     and we can innovate a lot more frequently.

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     And so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to announce a completely new family of desktop Pro products.

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     Now, our current Pro product is the Power Mac G3.

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     We announced it in November of 1997, 14 months ago.

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     And it's been an incredible success for us.

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     We've sold over 1.6 million of these Power Mac G3s.

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     G3s. This product alone has been about 2% of the entire computer sales in this time period.

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     And that's generated over $3 billion of revenue for Apple in that time period. It's an incredibly

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     successful product. And today we're going to go to the next generation. So what is that?

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     We set out some goals for ourselves, four key goals for the next generation G3 product.

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     The first one, we want to make not only the most powerful Macintosh ever built,

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     but the most powerful PC in the entire industry.

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     We want to give it the best graphics of the entire industry,