#steve jobs keynote

[joebustillos]

2007-01-09 MacBreak Weekly Meetup - San Francisco, CA

2007-01-09 MACBREAK WEEKLY MEETUP – SAN FRANCISCO CA 2007-01-09 21ST AMENDMENT BREWERY – SAN FRANCISCO CA. I got a chance to attend a podcast meetup for one of my favorite podcasts and see the folks in person that I’ve been listening to, in some cases, for years. Fun. Click here to Return to: Macworld Expo (2007) ||| Macworld Expo Floor ||| Around Town ||| Travels JBB’s Media Projects…

[unbfacts]

Steve Jobs made the first iPhone call publicly by prank-calling Starbucks. He humorously ordered 4,000 lattes, only to say "just kidding" and hang up.

[thisischeri]

So who’s watching it with me? I’m serious! I could look around to set up something that we can all chat on or if you have ideas let me know!! Does tumblr have anything for this? lol

@staff I’m a product designer specialised in conversational environments 👀

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[kentaroreviews]

Steve Jobs' 2007 keynote

This is a generation reaching a climax. They also got stuck there. See how.

People could hardly contain their Christmas excitement. They already wanted to leave and go out and get it. Instead, the experience went interestingly. They stayed in their seat.

The experience was as interesting as any movie, as exciting as any stage performance.

They sat with each others' burps, farts, coughs, etc., because they could hardly believe that this was all happening, at once. A release.

Something needed for many, I'll admit. It came from somewhere.

Apple did it, in several ways. Showing an example of how to be everything at once, that people ask for.

So, here we are.

Todays' appointments, often met, on a location where an iPhone passes through the door with people.

Oftentimes, it's this. Becomes something you watch TV on.

Your neck might crane. You might be slowed down.

You might have to

He spoke things that still have a point, today. Because he thought of this two years ago, here, in 2024. After he's passed away.

Steve Jobs is still affecting the world, now, and he's since gone elsewhere. The late Steve Jobs. He's working his magic from beyond the grave.

Consider this.

If you swapped out things that he's doing in 2007 with things that are being done now, you can -still- innovate!

Especially in the format of the Keynote presentation. When you watch the presentation, you want to stay.

He's able to be, here, while we leave. The Earth, eventually. Left by us, it might be in a state that's worse. I think Steve Jobs would want less pollution. Less landfill. Less of the cracked screens that are thrown, ending up on the road, or into a bin. I think he'd want us to realize what we have, now, that he may have put into our hands. He seems like a worker who thinks. Bill Gates, also, has done this, too. We left him in a place where, mostly, he's become fodder for a mill of conspiracy theories. Here's now.

We have that. We have ourselves.

Will we be?

Kentaro Rants

February 22nd, 2024 9 PM EST

[learnfromjobs]

What's up, learners? It's your boy, the one and only LearnFromJobs, here to school you on the art of innovation and making a dent in the universe. You know who else was all about that life? The late, great Steve Jobs.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Jobs? That guy who made overpriced phones and wore turtlenecks like it was his job?" But hear me out, people. The man was a genius. A legend. A mythic figure in the world of tech.

You might not know this, but Jobs wasn't always the mastermind behind Apple's success. In fact, he got fired from the company he helped start. But did he let that defeat him? Hell no. He went on to create Pixar, revolutionize the music industry with the iPod, and completely change the game with the iPhone.

And let's not forget his signature move: the keynote presentation. Jobs knew how to work a stage like nobody's business. He could make you believe that a new phone was the greatest thing to ever grace the earth. That's the power of storytelling, people.

But it wasn't just about the products. Jobs was all about the user experience. He believed in simplicity, elegance, and intuitive design. He once said, "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." And boy, did it work.

So what can we learn from Jobs? Well, for starters, never give up. Even when things seem bleak, keep pushing forward. And always keep the user in mind. Don't just make something that looks cool; make something that makes people's lives better.

And last but not least, never underestimate the power of a good black turtleneck. Just kidding. Maybe.

[kickthecan-revolution]

I worked from 10 AM until 3 AM on one single keynote slide, woke up at 7 AM this morning and realized it was wrong, so tossed it out entirely and re-created it. And now it’s perfect. Or close. My singular focus on making some thing perfect can get a little crazy - and what’s even weirder, hardly anyone is going to look at that slide. It’s my own internal plan for my small team. It’s not like I have to present it. It just is helping me shape and simplify the way that I think, and the aesthetics of the information have to be really clean, so I can think cleanly.

Steve Jobs once told the story about why the details when no one’s looking.

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” 

That resonates with me. I used to be pretty performative about work and I still am, of course, because that’s corporate America but there’s also a big part of me that needs the work itself to flow in a clean way because that shows me that I’m thinking cleanly. It’s like a thermometer.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

To save the news, repeal the app tax

Today (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin.

Tomorrow (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues.

Big Tech steals from the news, but what it steals is money, not content. Talking about the news, excerpting it, linking to it, quoting it — these are all beneficial, normal news activities. If you can’t talk about the news, it’s not news — it’s a secret.

But tech does steal from news. A variety of monopolistic tricks allows tech to interpose itself between reporters, publishers and outlets, and the audiences they serve. By creating chokepoints between the news and its audience, tech can extract gigantic sums from the news.

And because the news itself is dominated by the same kinds of extractive, vicious, gigantic corporations, the shit flows downhill: the first victims of attacks on news profitability are news workers — reporters, technical staff, illustrators, photographers. A news outlet has to be really starving before it turns to the money claimed by vulture capitalists who buy distressed debt, or hedge funds who roll up papers, or wealthy owners.

Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops. Tech’s ripoffs have reached a breaking point, and there’s a broad coalition of journalists, media companies, audiences and politicians ready to do something about this. Now the question is: what should we do?

Whatever we do it should:

Maintain broad access to the news;

Make it easier for new news outlets to pop up;

Make it easier for new tech outlets that carry the news to pop up, too.

It shouldn’t simply transfer funds to bond holders who own newspaper debt, or shareholders of media companies, or billionaire dilettante news proprietors. It shouldn’t make the news and tech into “partners”: we want the press to hold tech to account, not join forces with it.

A month ago, EFF and I started publishing a five-part series of policy prescriptions “saving the news from tech.” Part one was the “curtain raiser,” setting up the whole program:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

Each week since, I’ve published a specific policy recommendation. The first one was breaking up the ad-tech industry, on the lines suggested by Senator Mike Lee’s AMERICA Act:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech

Next was passing comprehensive privacy law, which would kill off surveillance ads and force a switch to “contextual ads” (ads based on what you’re looking at, not who you are):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

Both of these proposals are aimed at reducing the share of ad money claimed by tech, especially the ad-tech duopoly of Google/Meta. Ad-tech claims more than 50% of every ad dollar spent, thanks to their chokepoint on ads. The ad-tech market is a cesspool of fraud, abuse and creepy practices. Fixing ads would make everyone better off, by freeing us all from ubiquitous commercial surveillance, and it would make the news better off, letting the news claim a much larger share of ad revenues, whether they are large media brands or independent reporters covering a niche subject in depth.

This week’s installment turns to subscription revenues. When Steve Jobs launched the Ipad in 2010, he set himself up as a daddy figure for the traumataized press, promising them a return to subscription-based business, with seamless payment processing through the apps in his walled garden:

https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

But since then, the mobile duopoly of Apple/Google has simply recapitulated the abusive extraction of the ad-tech industry, but for apps. Both companies charge a whopping 30% to process in-app payments, and both companies have strict rules banning app makers from evading this 30% app tax by steering customers to the web to complete payments:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-must-open-app-stores

The companies — nominally bitter competitors — have nevertheless converged on this 30% vig, allegedly without any anticompetitive collusion. Apple uses Digital Rights Management (DRM) to lock people into using its App Store, threatening anyone who reverse-engineers its devices to add competing stores with five year prison sentences under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Google’s Android does have a facility for “side-loading” apps that aren’t in its app store, but the company uses a web of commercial requirements and technological tricks to prevent a competitor from emerging:

https://theplatformlaw.blog/2023/05/24/why-the-proposed-commitments-offered-by-google-to-the-uk-competition-authority-regarding-in-app-purchases-are-wrong-and-will-make-the-situation-of-app-developers-worse/

The result is a massive transfer from the news to tech: payment processing normally costs 2–3%, but these companies manage to take a 30% bite out of every subscription dollar collected in-app. Some very large outlets like the NY Times can drive readers to sign up on the web and escape the app tax, but the additional friction costs even these large publishers a fortune in lost subscribers — and smaller outlets have even less leverage over readers and are corralled into paying the app tax, making it a regressive tax indeed.

Unrigging the mobile payments market would produce good results far beyond the news, of course. Games publishers, independent creators, and office and productivity app makers would all benefit from no longer having to pay the app tax. And so would their users: these app makers are passing on most of those payment costs to us, and we end up paying them, because there are only two major mobile platforms and they both charge the same app tax.

In the EU, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) will force app stores to open up, paving the way for alternative app stores:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22996248/apple-sideloading-apps-store-third-party-eu-dma-requirement

In the US, there’s proposed laws like the Open Apps Markets Act, which is likely to be reintroduced in this legislative session:

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition

The mobile duopoly hate this, of course, and claim that forcing them to permit rival app stores would put users’ security at risk. It’s true that this could happen, but it doesn’t need to: security and openness are compatible:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2022/01/letter-to-the-us-senate-judiciary-committee-on-app-stores.html

Next week, I’ll conclude the series with a post on applying the end-to-end principle to social media, to prevent platforms from holding a publication’s subscribers hostage in order to extract “boosting” fees from media. Once that’s out, we’re going to gather all these posts into a single, downloadable PDF, suitable for sharing with the news junkies in your life, your friends in the media business, and your elected reps.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/07/curatorial-vig/#app-tax

[Image ID: EFF's banner for the save news series; the word 'NEWS' appears in pixelated, gothic script in the style of a newspaper masthead. Beneath it in four entwined circles are logos for breaking up ad-tech, ending surveillance ads, opening app stores, and end-to-end delivery. All the icons except for 'open app stores' are greyed out.]

[aulia-m]

AI voice detection and recognition are becoming more crucial

This Twitter thread shows how far along artificial voices have come. For those who are familiar with Steve Jobs’ voice, the voice in these recordings is almost indistinguishable from the original. When you listen to them, you can be forgiven to think that it’s actually Steve Jobs saying these words, never mind that he’s been gone for more than a decade.

The only catch is that because the training set must have been taken from the many recordings of his Apple keynote speeches and product announcements, they all sound like he’s reading from a script or making announcements. None of the sentences sound natural the way someone would speak if they were having a regular conversation or answering questions but that’s not too difficult to overcome. The tools to make adjustments to AI generated voices to sound more natural already exists.

Here’s another example. The YouTube channel Star Wars Comics have started to experiment with using generated voices to narrate some storyline’s from the Star Wars comic books to keep their audience up to date with what’s happening in the comics. In one video, they used James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader voice to say the lines in the pages of the comic book. Their latest video voiced a conversation between Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader from another issue in the recent Darth Vader comic book series, both using the generated voices of their real actors.

As many in the comments noted, while their voices sound indistinguishable from the original, the speech patterns make it obvious that these were generated. That’s because the voices weren’t adjusted to the way a person would speak in a proper conversation given in the situation. Again, these are relatively trivial changes that one could make using their AI voice generators.

While these may be little more than fun projects for the curious minds, the day when someone can create entirely fabricated recordings to manipulate the public is already here. You can already create fake videos of a person saying things that they never actually said, now the voices sound even closer to the original.

When deepfake videos started popping up in 2020, people knew that this was going to be a significant problem. People are already easily fooled by fabricated articles or stories and this is just going to make it far more challenging for people to fact check and verify the validity of recordings.

All I can say for that is, brace for impact.

[mlpfashionarchive]

Pony Life: Keynote Pie - Pinkie dressed as Steve Jobs (I think?)

[joebustillos]

2007-01-09 Steve Jobs' Keynote - San Francisco, CA

2007-01-09 STEVE JOBS’ KEYNOTE – SAN FRANCISCO CA 2007-01-09. Long lines wrapped around the building in the pre-dawn hours, snaking there way through giant rooms that eventually lead to thousands of seats in an enormous darkened auditorium. This was not my first Steve Jobs’ keynote. I was at a Steve-note in January 2000 when MacOS X’s Aqua interface was introduced and Jobs dropped the “i” from…

[didyouactuallyjustdothat]

a while ago i got to tour an ibm facility home to their system one quantum computer, which looks like this:

the glass panels are made by goppion, who generally make the glass enclosures for museum displays. to be clear, they serve no functional purpose here—the cylinder you see on the inside certainly should provide enough isolation from the environment, no further enclosure should be required. supposedly the engineers were frustrated with how the case stopped them from actually working on the system.

at the time it bothered me that the presentation of the system got in the way of its actual function, especially because quantum computers didn't have any practical applications at the time (as they still really don't), so it was really just meant to be a proof-of-concept, a research system. dressing it up like a new consumer product fit for a steve jobs keynote felt wrong to me somehow, like it was promising something it couldn't deliver.

i think i've come around to it, since it obviously does look quite sleek, and i like the idea of presenting ongoing science like a museum, rather than just instruments used in century-old discoveries. it still makes me happy to see people appreciating quantum computers the way all the scientists and engineers normally see them, though :)

why did no one tell me quantum computers looked like that

[muqtadarinternational]

speakinno

In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and a globalized economy, effective communication and innovation emerge as twin pillars of success. "Speakinno," a term that encapsulates the fusion of speaking and innovation, underscores the transformative power of ideas when expressed with clarity, creativity, and influence.

The Power of Speaking in the Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation thrives on the exchange of ideas, and speaking serves as the bridge between thought and action. From pitching a groundbreaking startup idea to delivering a persuasive keynote at a tech conference, the ability to communicate is often the difference between an idea taking off or being relegated to obscurity.

Public speaking is not just about sharing information—it’s about inspiring change. Innovative leaders like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Malala Yousafzai have demonstrated the ability to galvanize audiences with their words. Their speeches do more than inform; they ignite action, foster collaboration, and build communities around shared goals.

In the corporate world, communication drives the innovation process. Leaders must articulate a vision that inspires teams to think outside the box. Engineers and designers need to present their prototypes effectively to secure funding. Even the most revolutionary ideas can falter if not communicated persuasively.

Innovation in the Art of Speaking

Conversely, innovation has revolutionized the way we speak and share ideas. Technology now allows speakers to connect with global audiences in real time. Tools like AI-powered teleprompters, virtual reality presentations, and data-driven storytelling techniques have redefined the speaking experience.

TED Talks are a prime example of innovative communication. These short, impactful presentations leverage storytelling, visuals, and succinct messaging to convey complex ideas in a digestible format. Speakers employ creative tools to make their points memorable, often turning abstract concepts into tangible takeaways.

Moreover, the integration of artificial intelligence into communication tools has opened new frontiers. AI assistants analyze audience feedback in real time, enabling speakers to adapt their delivery. Language translation tools break down barriers, allowing ideas to flow seamlessly across cultural divides.

The Role of Speakinno in Shaping the Future

The marriage of speaking and innovation is more relevant than ever in solving global challenges. Climate change, social inequality, and technological ethics require not only innovative solutions but also persuasive advocates to champion them.

Programs like Toastmasters International are evolving to incorporate training in digital tools, virtual communication, and multicultural audience engagement. Similarly, innovation hubs and startup incubators now prioritize communication training alongside technical skill development.

At its core, Speakinno represents the belief that speaking and innovation amplify each other. Great ideas need powerful voices to bring them to life, while impactful communication finds its ultimate purpose in advancing human progress. Together, they have the potential to reshape industries, societies, and the world at large.

[doncosty]

This is what you call a visionary, knowing where Apple is today.

Keynote from Steve Jobs at the International Design Conference in Aspen, 1983.

[arielmcorg]

#Apple Keynote presentación del iPhone 16

En el día de hoy se realiza la tan esperada presentación, en donde vamos a conocer los nuevos iPhone 16, seguramente integrada la IA de Cupertino. Cómo ver el evento y a qué hora, el evento se llevará a cabo en el Steve Jobs Theater en su sede de Apple Park, en Cupertino, California, y se transmitirá en línea en su cuenta oficial de Youtube. También desde la web oficial de Apple. A continuación…

[infamousbrad]

Bruce Sterling called it gothic high-tech: today's ultra-wealthy live the lives of gothic-novel supervillains. They're so separated from the rest of us that they can do things nobody else can imagine even wanting to do, let alone being able, but when horrible things happen to them, nobody but their fellow gothic-novel supervillains has any sympathy.

Let me explain to you what Gothic High-Tech is like. In Gothic High-Tech, you're Steve Jobs. You've built an iPhone which is a brilliant technical innovation, but you also had to sneak off to Tennessee to get a liver transplant because you're dying of something secret and horrible. And you're a captain of American industry. You're not some General Motors kinda guy. On the contrary, you’re a guy who’s got both hands on the steering wheel of a functional car. But you're still Gothic High-Tech because death is waiting. And not a kindly death either, but a sinister, creeping, tainted wells of Silicon Valley kind of Superfund thing that steals upon you month by month, and that you have to hide from the public and from the bloggers and from the shareholders. And you just grit your teeth and pull out the next one. A heroic story, but very Gothic. Something that belongs in an eighteenth century horror novel. Kind of the “man in the castle" figure.

(Bruce Sterling, "Gothic High Tech and Favela Chic," keynote speech at the 11th Reboot conference, June 25th 2009)

I can't deal with this whole titanic thing. The stepson of one of the billionaires being like "so sad about my stepdad stuck in that big metal tube anyway im off to see blink 182 tonight it's what he would've wanted ✌️✌️" then he almost immediately got milkshake ducked for threatening to shoot up an EDM concert a while back and I think getting arrested???? Amazing stuff.

[krjpalmer]

Macworld March 2007

Certain rumours came to fruition via a Steve Jobs keynote, and this issue delved into the first public information about a new Apple (no longer "Apple Computer") device, going so far as to create its own rendering to get away from the Apple-supplied graphics.