I have noticed several posts that questioned exactly what Steve Jobs said during the Keynote. I thought it might be helpful to have a keynote thread that members could search to find the answers to their questions.
Below is a complete transcript of the keynote.
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Thank you for coming. We’re going to make some history together today. So, welcome to Macworld.
You know, it was just a year ago that I was up here and announced that we were going to switch to Intel processors. A huge, heart transplant to Intel microprocessors. And I said that we would do it over the coming 12 months. We did it in seven months, and it was the — it’s been the smoothest and most successful transition that we’ve ever seen in the history of our industry. And it was because we made a beautiful, seamless version of OSX for Intel processors. And our team created Rosetta software which lets you run PowerPC apps on top of OSX on Intel processors. Our hardware team got to cranking out a new Mac with Intel processors every month, and we completed this transition in seven months. But we didn’t do this alone. We did this with the help of a lot of folks. Our new colleagues at Intel really helped us. Thank you very much. Our third-party developers rapidly moving their apps to universal versions to run at native speeds on Intel processors. Thank you very much. And most of all, our users. The minute you saw these lightning-fast machines, you bought ‘em. And we’ve had an extremely successful year, and I want to thank our users very much.
Now, as many as you know, our retail stores have for a while been selling over half their Macs to people who have never owned a Mac before: switchers. Well, I’m pleased to report that now, in the U.S., Macs selling through all channels, over half of them are selling to people who have never owned a Mac before. It’s not just limited to our retail stores anymore. Half the Macs we’re selling in the U.S. We are picking up lots and lots of new members of the Mac family, and we couldn’t be happier. As a matter of fact, here’s one that might be coming on soon. Jim Allchin at Microsoft was quoted recently as saying if he didn’t work for Microsoft, he would buy a Mac, and he’s retiring soon, so I’ve alerted our Seattle stores to keep an eye out for him and give him really good service. You know, Vista’s coming out, and you know our ads with the Mac guy and the PC guy, we made a little ad for Vista, and I’d love to show it to you now, if you’d like to see it.
[Apple ad]
So, 2007 is going to be a great year for the Mac. But this is all we’re going to talk about the Mac today. We’re going to move on to some other things and over the course of the next several months we’re going to roll out some awesome stuff for the Mac. But for today, we’re going to move on.
So, the first thing I like to do is give you an update about our music businesss. As you know, we’ve got the iPod, best music player in the world. We’ve got the iPod nanos, brand new models, colors are back. We’ve got the amazing new iPod Shuffle. The iPod, in addition to being the world’s best MP3 player, has become the world’s most popular video player, and by a large margin. The iPod Nano is the world’s most popular MP3 player, by a wide margin. And the new shuffle is the world’s most wearable MP3 player. So we had an incredible line-up for this holiday season, all refreshed and new products. Now I’d like to tell you a few things about iTunes now that are pretty exciting. Number one, we have crossed a major milestone. We have sold over 2 billion songs on iTunes. It’s amazing. Now, there was an article recently that said iTunes sales had slowed dramatically. I don’t know what data they’re looking at, but this is our data, and what we see is iTunes sales were really up this year. It took us over three years to get to a billion songs. We got our second billion in 10 months in 2006. And growing off an over 600 million song base, we doubled it in 2006. So we couldn’t be happier with the growth rate of iTunes and selling 2 billion songs.
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day. And the last time we talked to you, we said that we were the 5th largest music reseller in the U.S. Now all these other guys sell music on CDs, and of course we sell it online. But if you add up all the music that’s sold, we were the fifth-largest reseller. Because of the growth of iTunes, I am pleased to report that we have now passed Amazon. We sell more music than Amazon, and we are now number four. And you can guess who our next Target might be. So that’s an update for music.
Now I want to talk about TV shows. We’ve got awesome TV shows on iTunes. As a matter of fact we have over 350 TV shows that you can buy episodes from on iTunes. And I’m very pleased to report that we have sold now 50 million TV shows on iTunes. Isn’t that incredible?
Now, let me go on to movies. When we started with television shows, the pioneering partner we had was the Walt Disney Co. They decided to throw in with us and sell TV shows, and boy did it work. Well, when we decided to sell movies, they were right with us there again as our pioneering partner to sell movies. And I am really pleased to announce that in the first four months of selling movies, we have sold 1.3 million movies on iTunes, which I think has exceeded all of our expectations. And today, we have a new partner joining the Walt Disney Co. to sell movies on iTunes, and that is Paramount. We’re thrilled because they have some awesome movies. Let me just show you a few of the titles here that are going up as we speak. All six Star Trek movies. So we are going to be moving up from the hundred movies we’ve offered so far to over 250 movies now offered on iTunes. These are getting up as fast as we can over the next week or so. And we hope to be adding even more movies as other studios throw in with us as 2006 rolls on. So that’s an update on iTunes.
Now, as I said, we had a very strong lineup of music players for this holiday season. We always have stiff competition. That’s just part of this businesss. And we had a new competitor this past holiday season, which was, of course, Microsoft’s Zune. So how’d they do? Well, we don’t have data for December yet, because it’s not out till next week or the week after, I forget. But we have data for November, which was their launch month, should have been real big. And they garnered 2 percent market share. Two percent market share. iPod had 62 percent market share, and the rest had 36. Again, we don’t have data for December. We know we went up quite a bit in December in terms of market share. And we’ll find out how they did. But 2 percent in their launch month. So, no matter how you try to spin this, what can you say? So that’s an update on how we’re doing in the new music businesss, and we’ve got a few new ads for iPods. You know, we work with some of the greatest folks to create advertising. And they created this wonderful ad that I’d love to show you right now, so let me go ahead and roll it.
[Ad plays]
Now, just to let you in on our process a little bit, these guys are incredibly creative, they couldn’t stop, and they took the same song, which is an up-and-coming British pop group, and they took the same dancers, and they did some different animation, and they came up with what you’re about to see.
[Ad plays]
Isn’t that great? So, those will be running shortly. And that is an update to our music businesss.
Now, I’d like to talk about a product we introduced in September. The code name was iTV. We have a new name for it. It’s called Apple TV. But you should either go with your code name, like we did with the Mac, or you should pick a code name quite a bit — a real name quite a bit different than your code name, so I’ll probably stumble and call this iTV five times today by mistake. I apologize. So Apple TV.
Apple TV is a way to enjoy your media on your big screen TV. So let’s backtrack and talk about what we did when we previewed this in September. You can buy great content on the iTunes music store. Movies, TV shows and music, of course. And you can download it to your computer, be it a PC or a Mac. I’m going to use a Mac here. You can put other content on your computer from other places, of course. And you can put that content on your iPod, right? Now, you can go out and buy a wide-screen TV, hook up an Apple TV to it, and wirelessly transmit that content from your PC to your Apple TV and watch it on your big screen TV. It’s that simple. Right? It’s that simple.
Below is a complete transcript of the keynote.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you for coming. We’re going to make some history together today. So, welcome to Macworld.
You know, it was just a year ago that I was up here and announced that we were going to switch to Intel processors. A huge, heart transplant to Intel microprocessors. And I said that we would do it over the coming 12 months. We did it in seven months, and it was the — it’s been the smoothest and most successful transition that we’ve ever seen in the history of our industry. And it was because we made a beautiful, seamless version of OSX for Intel processors. And our team created Rosetta software which lets you run PowerPC apps on top of OSX on Intel processors. Our hardware team got to cranking out a new Mac with Intel processors every month, and we completed this transition in seven months. But we didn’t do this alone. We did this with the help of a lot of folks. Our new colleagues at Intel really helped us. Thank you very much. Our third-party developers rapidly moving their apps to universal versions to run at native speeds on Intel processors. Thank you very much. And most of all, our users. The minute you saw these lightning-fast machines, you bought ‘em. And we’ve had an extremely successful year, and I want to thank our users very much.
Now, as many as you know, our retail stores have for a while been selling over half their Macs to people who have never owned a Mac before: switchers. Well, I’m pleased to report that now, in the U.S., Macs selling through all channels, over half of them are selling to people who have never owned a Mac before. It’s not just limited to our retail stores anymore. Half the Macs we’re selling in the U.S. We are picking up lots and lots of new members of the Mac family, and we couldn’t be happier. As a matter of fact, here’s one that might be coming on soon. Jim Allchin at Microsoft was quoted recently as saying if he didn’t work for Microsoft, he would buy a Mac, and he’s retiring soon, so I’ve alerted our Seattle stores to keep an eye out for him and give him really good service. You know, Vista’s coming out, and you know our ads with the Mac guy and the PC guy, we made a little ad for Vista, and I’d love to show it to you now, if you’d like to see it.
[Apple ad]
So, 2007 is going to be a great year for the Mac. But this is all we’re going to talk about the Mac today. We’re going to move on to some other things and over the course of the next several months we’re going to roll out some awesome stuff for the Mac. But for today, we’re going to move on.
So, the first thing I like to do is give you an update about our music businesss. As you know, we’ve got the iPod, best music player in the world. We’ve got the iPod nanos, brand new models, colors are back. We’ve got the amazing new iPod Shuffle. The iPod, in addition to being the world’s best MP3 player, has become the world’s most popular video player, and by a large margin. The iPod Nano is the world’s most popular MP3 player, by a wide margin. And the new shuffle is the world’s most wearable MP3 player. So we had an incredible line-up for this holiday season, all refreshed and new products. Now I’d like to tell you a few things about iTunes now that are pretty exciting. Number one, we have crossed a major milestone. We have sold over 2 billion songs on iTunes. It’s amazing. Now, there was an article recently that said iTunes sales had slowed dramatically. I don’t know what data they’re looking at, but this is our data, and what we see is iTunes sales were really up this year. It took us over three years to get to a billion songs. We got our second billion in 10 months in 2006. And growing off an over 600 million song base, we doubled it in 2006. So we couldn’t be happier with the growth rate of iTunes and selling 2 billion songs.
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day. And the last time we talked to you, we said that we were the 5th largest music reseller in the U.S. Now all these other guys sell music on CDs, and of course we sell it online. But if you add up all the music that’s sold, we were the fifth-largest reseller. Because of the growth of iTunes, I am pleased to report that we have now passed Amazon. We sell more music than Amazon, and we are now number four. And you can guess who our next Target might be. So that’s an update for music.
Now I want to talk about TV shows. We’ve got awesome TV shows on iTunes. As a matter of fact we have over 350 TV shows that you can buy episodes from on iTunes. And I’m very pleased to report that we have sold now 50 million TV shows on iTunes. Isn’t that incredible?
Now, let me go on to movies. When we started with television shows, the pioneering partner we had was the Walt Disney Co. They decided to throw in with us and sell TV shows, and boy did it work. Well, when we decided to sell movies, they were right with us there again as our pioneering partner to sell movies. And I am really pleased to announce that in the first four months of selling movies, we have sold 1.3 million movies on iTunes, which I think has exceeded all of our expectations. And today, we have a new partner joining the Walt Disney Co. to sell movies on iTunes, and that is Paramount. We’re thrilled because they have some awesome movies. Let me just show you a few of the titles here that are going up as we speak. All six Star Trek movies. So we are going to be moving up from the hundred movies we’ve offered so far to over 250 movies now offered on iTunes. These are getting up as fast as we can over the next week or so. And we hope to be adding even more movies as other studios throw in with us as 2006 rolls on. So that’s an update on iTunes.
Now, as I said, we had a very strong lineup of music players for this holiday season. We always have stiff competition. That’s just part of this businesss. And we had a new competitor this past holiday season, which was, of course, Microsoft’s Zune. So how’d they do? Well, we don’t have data for December yet, because it’s not out till next week or the week after, I forget. But we have data for November, which was their launch month, should have been real big. And they garnered 2 percent market share. Two percent market share. iPod had 62 percent market share, and the rest had 36. Again, we don’t have data for December. We know we went up quite a bit in December in terms of market share. And we’ll find out how they did. But 2 percent in their launch month. So, no matter how you try to spin this, what can you say? So that’s an update on how we’re doing in the new music businesss, and we’ve got a few new ads for iPods. You know, we work with some of the greatest folks to create advertising. And they created this wonderful ad that I’d love to show you right now, so let me go ahead and roll it.
[Ad plays]
Now, just to let you in on our process a little bit, these guys are incredibly creative, they couldn’t stop, and they took the same song, which is an up-and-coming British pop group, and they took the same dancers, and they did some different animation, and they came up with what you’re about to see.
[Ad plays]
Isn’t that great? So, those will be running shortly. And that is an update to our music businesss.
Now, I’d like to talk about a product we introduced in September. The code name was iTV. We have a new name for it. It’s called Apple TV. But you should either go with your code name, like we did with the Mac, or you should pick a code name quite a bit — a real name quite a bit different than your code name, so I’ll probably stumble and call this iTV five times today by mistake. I apologize. So Apple TV.
Apple TV is a way to enjoy your media on your big screen TV. So let’s backtrack and talk about what we did when we previewed this in September. You can buy great content on the iTunes music store. Movies, TV shows and music, of course. And you can download it to your computer, be it a PC or a Mac. I’m going to use a Mac here. You can put other content on your computer from other places, of course. And you can put that content on your iPod, right? Now, you can go out and buy a wide-screen TV, hook up an Apple TV to it, and wirelessly transmit that content from your PC to your Apple TV and watch it on your big screen TV. It’s that simple. Right? It’s that simple.