GigaOM: Live blogging Apple CEO at the D interview
Here in my favorite quotes of Steve Jobs and oh by the way.. Youtube is coming to AppleTV:
Apple is in two businesses today and we will be the three busienss soon. We love our mac business, and there is the music business. Those are two $10 billion business. And we will be in the phone business soon.
Market Share of Mac Business: We are steadily trying to improve things, we make the best notebooks and desktops in the world. We sell more notebooks than the industry. Notebooks will be 80 to 90% of what we will sell. That time is going to come.
Switch to Intel was the big transition, and we did it very well. Growth that we have seen over last several quarters has been three times the market growth. If you parse out the US numbers, we are five times the market growth. Worldwide our market share is 3%, and US is between 5-to-6%. US retail we have double digit market share.
Cingular, the new AT&T, like the old AT&T. Cingular has been great to us. They have a done deal, which they haven’t done a deal like this before. They broke a lot of rules. We didn’t show them the phone. Cingular invested in us, and took a gamble on us. And we took a gamble on them. I will never forget that.
Why they did it? Music on phones hasn’t been successful, and they wanted to do something good about that. iPod on the phone can do that. They are spending a lot on 3G and people haven’t vote with their pocket. I think the Internet experience is bad. You get baby internet, mobile internet, or something bizzare. We want to deliver the real Internet experience.
Right now its EMI an there is thousands of independents are coming on board, as quickly as we can encode their music. You can upgrade to iTunes+ song for additional 30 cents. We can do it automatically. The music companies ship all their music DRM free - in CDs. People are willing to pay more for DRM free, and we were successful in persuading EMI an hopefully we can persuade others to offer DRM free.
iPhone is the best iPod we have made. It is a great cell phone we made. We have revolutionzed the cell phone. And it is internet on your pocket. If it was anyone of the three, we would sell a lot. Its all three, and they play off each other.
If you want to hire bright and creative people, you can’t over rule them. You can do that once or twice a year.
What we are going to do today, introduce something we announced in the morning. Incredible things is YouTube. It would be great if they can get YouTube on your living room TV. We worked on them, and we are announcing that YouTube as an add-in to AppleTV, and it is a MENU ITEM. (LOOKS GREAT)
Source: GigaOM
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
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