It sound more like he is describing Chrome OS, actually.
Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
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Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#32Fascinating to see how much more technical vocabulary he uses when speaking in '97. I don't remember any recent keynotes where he used so much tech jargon onstage. I guess this is because now, every word he says is analysed and reported by mainstream media. He has to communicate to the entire world because of Apple's popularity, and not just a room full of WWDC developers.
It's more of early adapters (1997) vs. mainstream (2012).
The first is much more techy. And the latter is much greater in numbers.
Apple wasn't even a blimp on the radar screen back in 1997. Now they are a continent.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#33Spooky to hear Jobs speak so well of Rubenstein ("I trust him with my life"), knowing that Palm will hire him away for WebOS a decade later.
afaik palm didn't hire him away. He quit and after few months of break in mexico, he decided to join palm.
It seems like he didn't really quit either but was let go gracefully. As head of iPod division it seemed as though he was more protective of the iPod's role as Apple's superstar product then of the big picture Jobs wanted to push. Rumor was he wanted to use the iPod OS for the phone and then he gave an interview about how converged devices were lame and 3 weeks later they announced his "reduced role" as a consultant and shortly after that he was out.
Granted that's mostly based on rumors but it gives an interesting contrast to Microsoft's failure in tablets because of things like the Office division's execs refusing to make it touch friendly.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#34This was Sun Microsystems' vision of computing in 1982, 15 years earlier.
He was even using NFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_(protocol)
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Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#35At the time, Larry Ellison was on Apple's board, and Oracle was pushing the "Network Computer" concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#36What's especially interesting in this video is when he's insulted by someone during the Q&A. How differently he handled that than what stars, politicians, and many business people would do and do! Amelio was also still in charge of Apple, yet it seems Jobs already had his plans worked out for what he would do with Apple if he was in charge.
Where in the video is this?
Sorry, I watched it several days ago and didn't note the time. I'm thinking of watching it again to extract that bit.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#37What's especially interesting in this video is when he's insulted by someone during the Q&A. How differently he handled that than what stars, politicians, and many business people would do and do! Amelio was also still in charge of Apple, yet it seems Jobs already had his plans worked out for what he would do with Apple if he was in charge.
Where in the video is this?
It's at around 50:20.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#38Fundamentally, the idea is the same to the end user, but this is true about a lot of ideas that started on the desktop, then were recreated in the web, and are now being recreated in mobile.
Like anything, ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is everything. Building network storage for tethered devices on reliable connections and building network storage for untethered devices on unreliable connections are two different problems.
The way this post is titled gives him credit for the idea, which is a silly thing. If iCloud works as advertised, kudos for the execution.
But I have no doubt in my mind that the architecture under the hood would be very different if it were 1997 and Apple was building cloud storage in the pc era.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#39This was Sun Microsystems' vision of computing in 1982, 15 years earlier.
I would love to watch a video of Bill Joy or whomever giving a talk about that.
Bill Joy spoke of this at the Institute for Advanced Study, circa 1999. I don't know if anyone took a video of his talk, but he did it (and I was there.)
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#40What's especially interesting in this video is when he's insulted by someone during the Q&A. How differently he handled that than what stars, politicians, and many business people would do and do! Amelio was also still in charge of Apple, yet it seems Jobs already had his plans worked out for what he would do with Apple if he was in charge.
Where in the video is this?
At around 50:10, someone asks him sarcastically to use his cloud to make sure than when TV commercials are made, they're good ones. Steve Jobs smiles, nods and thanks him.