Steve Jobs and Other Top Tech Execs Rock the Red Chair at All Things D8.

| Jun 02, 2010 | 6 comments

D8. All Things Digital, the an annual conference where the worlds top tech gurus come to discuss the state of the digital world was created by the Wall Street Journal’s renowned tech journalist, Walter Mossberg, and his colleague-in-crime, Kara Swisher. This year the conference is in it’s 8th year, first year at the new location, the Terranea Resort, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California,  south of Los Angeles.

Check out this and rockstar billing:

Look at this list, it’s a veritiable who’s-who of technology executives. I think it may just be missing a twitter c-level.

So, Steve Jobs took the stage tonight with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg and was asked a ton of questions about the State of Apple, the genesis of  iPad & iPhone, Gizmodo, Foxconn suicides, the death of the PC, Future of TV and much more goodness.

There was so much talked about, where do you begin?

According to Jobs, the iPad was thought of before the iPhone.  He envision a glass tablet and had his top UI guy develop something for it, and he thought, “holy shitballs!”  This could become a phone.  The rest is history.

He also mentioned that they reimagined the tablet, whereas Microsoft tried to put the Windows OS on the tablet.   It had the battery life, the weight, but it needed a cursor like a PC. Without a stylus, you have no precision with your finger, so you really can’t use a PC OS. Thus, Apple created a new mobile OS from scratch.

These conversations are amazing.  They are candid and very informative.  In my opinion, the Wall Street Journal should make All Things D, a Pay Per View event… Certainly, Ruppert Murdoch could find some way to stream this great content and charge for it.  Seems like a wasted capitalistic opportunity.

I’d love to watch this conference.  It’s sold out, but you could have made tons of money by offering this to the public.  If this were on television, the ratings would have been through the roof.

They should stream the keynotes like Google did for their I/O conference, but I digress.  Once these videos are out in the next few days/months… check them out.  They will still be relevant.

In parting, here is Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at All Things D 5 in 2007.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/17s149w 17s149w

    Who makes those red chairs? They look uber comfy. I've got an Ekornes Stressless, in red by the way, and it is uber comfy but I can't use it for my desk chair.

  • Fareed

    It would be nice to find out who makes the D8 red chairs?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/mobloso Travis Wright

    Good question… I have no clue, but I just sent a tweet to Kara Swisher, so perhaps she will respond with an answer!

    Thanks for the comments, guys.

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/17s149w 17s149w

    I searched around and think I figured it out. I believe they are the Steelcase Leap WorkLounge chairs. It would be nice to get confirmation though!

    Thanks.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/mobloso Travis Wright

    Kara Swisher got back to me… they are indeed Steelcase… And I think you are right about the model, 17s…

    Kara Swisher's verification tweet back

  • http://www.titaniumearrings.org Titanium Earrings :

    the desk chairs that our mom use are always leather based instead of using cloth covers:.*

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