D8 Conference: Steve Jobs about Apple's future, iPad, laptop, flash and Google

Today at five in the morning in Moscow started the conference D8, which is organized by the influential Wall Street Journal since 2003. Let me remind you that journalists WST ask captains of IT-business on the future of the industry, the company's plans, etc. This time Walt Mossenberg interviewed Steve Jobs. Apple founder told a lot of interesting things. I think the video will appear soon, but for now the main points.

The fact that Apple is now more expensive than Microsoft

It is not very important. This is not something for which we have come to work in the morning.

About the flash

Apple has limited resources. The company must be very cautious, prioritizing. Flush well - aging technology. At the time, Apple for the same reason abandoned the floppy disk in the iMac and from the disk drives in the Macbook Air. You bet on HTML5. Failure Flesch dictated by technical reasons.

In addition, now there is no phone that supports Flash. In Androyd like Flash it should appear, but there he was promised long ago.

About missing iPhone 4G

You can not create a wireless device in the laboratory. It should be tested in the field. Sample iPhone 4G was stolen and then Gizmodo bought the stolen goods. "Someone should make a movie about this story."

About suicides of workers at supplier factories

In total there were 14 suicides among workers. The total number of employees in Foxconn over 400 000 people. The suicide rate in the US higher - 11 per 100 000. the problem looking for a solution.

about Google

Google has decided to compete with Apple and they do it. So far, Chrome OS is not ready. But the rivalry between the two companies is becoming more serious. whether Jobs felt that he had been betrayed, or changed it? "My sex life is not bad these days. And yours?".

"We want to make better product than they are... and we will." Jobs said that the consumer market is so good, as opposed to corporate, that there is every buyer decides himself by voting the dollar (in the companies, as a rule, solutions that use, taking above).

about search

No, Apple will not engage in the search business. Well, what with the fact that the company has bought a startup search? "We're not going to engage in the search business." (Other than a comment on CNET: Jobs often says that Apple is not going to do some business... as long as they do not begin to deal with them).

About Tablets

Apple did not make the Tablet PC as it did Microsoft. From the beginning, Jobs was opposed to the system with handwriting (if a device needs a stylus - it is waiting for a failure).

about iPad

And now the main surprise. It turns out, Apple is first worked to create iPad, rather than the iPhone! "We had the idea of ​​a touch screen, which can be printed. Six months later, the team has shown me the first prototype. This was the beginning of the two thousandth's. When I saw him, I thought - God, and if we can make this phone?! ". Project tablet computer immediately put on a shelf, and Apple has focused on the iPhone. Later, the team returned to the idea of ​​aypada.

About the future of the press

People are increasingly read on the Web. That now needs to be done - to figure out how to encourage people to pay for quality content. And here comes to the rescue iPad. This device allows you to read not trivial static web pages. Publishers, in turn, should reduce the price, the cost of the electronic versions must be printed below. If asking for a lower price, you can earn on the amount more.

About the future of laptops

When the country was predominantly agrarian, it was popular trucks. This is what is needed on the farm. Cars have become popular with the growth of cities. And now popular car with an automatic transmission. Modern PCs become as trucks in the future. They, of course, remain, but will not be at all, and one of X people.

About the iPad the future

Tablets use the convenient right now. If you need napechat great record - You can connect a keyboard and type text on it. But this is only one percent of the time. for iPad software is becoming more powerful. In the future, such machines can edit video, drawing, etc. Only need time.

In the near future on the iPad will be a flexible display. "We do not have this technology. And it is unlikely for the foreseeable future. "

pro platform

"We support two platforms. One - completely free and uncontrolled. This HTML5. Another - this App Store. There are some rules. Application should work, as promised in the advertisement, he must "fly" is not and should not be used unsupported APIs. We endorse the 95 percent of the applications. It is a few thousand a week. "

About the future of television

People watch TV for free, or pay $ 10 per month. In this business, not so much innovation, because no one wants to pay for a set-top box to the TV. "Ask the TiVo. Ask the ReplayTV. Ask the Roku. Just ask us. Just ask Google in a few months, when will Google TV ».

How does Apple

Apple is organized as a startup. "We are the biggest startups on the planet." There are no committees. "What we do every day, so it is meet with teams of people who are discussing the idea." Apple for the past 10 years has become more "but the values ​​remain the same."

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Still, Jobs - a very charismatic leader. We look forward to WWDC 2010

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