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Video: Steve Jobs at "Let's Rock"


For those who couldn't make it to San Francisco to catch Steve Jobs' appearance Tuesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts, Apple (AAPL) has posted the video here.

Among the highlights:

  • "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"
  • Updated iTunes numbers: 8.5 million songs, 125,000 podcasts, 30,000 TV shows, 2,600 movies, 65 million credit card accounts
  • NBC is back, HDTV content for $2.99
  • Demos of iTunes 8.0, Genius feature
  • iPod classic: 120GB for $249
  • New iPod nano: 8GB for $149, 16GB for $199, eight colors, new ad, "shake to shuffle"
  • iPod touch price cuts: 8GB for $229, 16GB for $299, 32GB for $399
  • App Store stats: 3,000 apps, 100 million downloaded in 60 days
  • Phil Schiller demos Spore Origins, Gameloft, Need for Speed: Undercover
  • iPod touch TV ad: "The funnest iPod ever"
  • iPhone 2.1 software update coming Friday: "It fixes lots of bugs."
  • Guest performance: Jack Johnson

Wie gaht's dir Cynik? Du bist nur ein bischli geisterkrank, aber trotzdem immer noch mini lieblings Spinner.

Ciao

Posted By Dreamdeceiver, Silicone Valley: September 12, 2008 9:38 PM

Today we learn that the iPhone will go on sale in EVIL Russia, confirming the widespread theory that DB Jobs secretly wants to see america fall under the jackboot of radical Islam.

Apple exposed as UnAmerican Europhiles and Putin fans!!

Get your news from cynik and stay ahead of the curve.

Posted By cynik, Switzerland: September 12, 2008 11:06 AM

Apple have Federer syndrome. They have set the bar so high that it has become impossible to keep the rate of growth constant. That is a terrible mixed metaphor, but the point stands. I mean, what are they going to do? They own music distribution, they own music hardware. Unless Steve Jobs releases a number one album, what more can he do?

By the way, did anyone notice the seething anger from the Apple camp with regards US imperialism and the way the USA has developed under the leadership of war criminals?

1. Jobs played American Idiot.

2. Schiller took a massive swipe at the term "soccer", and praised Europe.

3. The guest artist sang a song that essentially condemned war mongering republicanism.

If a journalist grabbed his nuts he could make something of that. You know, suggest that the divine being be dragged before a senate committee and then taken out back of barn and shot for being … well. you know. An enemy of the people. A peace loving, unamerican terrorist.

Who is going to stand up now and say that Putin doesn't own an iPod touch?

Huh? Exactly.

Posted By cynik, zurich, switzerland: September 10, 2008 8:31 PM

yawn

Posted By sjms, Warren NJ: September 10, 2008 9:47 AM

I thought it was 65m credit card accounts.

ex ped: Slip o' the key. Thanks for the catch. Fixed now.

Posted By pk de cville, VA: September 10, 2008 9:21 AM
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Steve Jobs, goes the old joke at Apple, is surrounded by a reality distortion field; get too close and you believe what he's saying. Apple has made believers out of millions of customers — and made a lot of investors rich — but Philip Elmer-DeWitt believes that an ounce of skepticism never hurts when writing about the company. He should know. He's been covering Apple – and watching Steve Jobs operate — since 1982.
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