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a bold move in this pretty sluggish economy. now, the question remains if apple builds them will customers come? >> the common wisdom on the apple retail stores was that it was a stupid idea that would fail. plenty of computer companies had tried it. dell had stores. gateway had stores. nobody went to them. it was just an exercise in vanity. but this concept of open, airy places where they weren't going to try to sell you stuff but instead you could ask questions about your apple products, you could see demonstrations, you could get your hands on them, is just an unbelievably different approach to retail. and once again, steve jobs figured it out. >> what began the process of taking apple from a niche player to a leader that everyone had to race to catch up to, even microsoft, was the ipod. >> boom. that's ipod. i happen to have one right here in my pocket. there it is right there. [ applause ]

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>> the idea is just that we should be thinking of what we're doing all the time and make sure we're doing good, basically. we thought it was really important as google grows in scope and influence on the world to have a philanthropic part of the company. >> the culture of google was very freewheeling. anyone could do anything. >> larry page and sergey brin said let's give them 20% of their time they can work on anything they want. >> we'll put that link there. >> if you come here at 9:00 in the morning, the parking lot's still half empty and it's because it's up to the individual and the teams they work with to figure out what's the best way for them to work together. >> you guys finished work? >> no. we're going to go back. >> you're going to go back and work? >> we're working till night. >> they really worked hard to create a community of people. but where they're interacting and they're spurring each other's ideas. >> if you give them freedom, they will amaze you. they'll surprise you with what they come up with. >> the venture capitalists said you need to bring in a professional ceo.

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friends and i remember there being drama between people about why am i not in your top eight? and everybody, no matter how lonely, had at least one friend. tom. >> how many friends do you officially have now? >> i think we're up to 175 million. >> for your official friends? >> yeah. >> i think because myspace allows people to be anonymous it is also more open to people who are a little bit weird, a little different, a little bit who maybe want to play games with their identity. >> move over myspace. college students across the country are, quote, facebooking their classmates. >> mark, if somebody was to put the question to you about the magnitude of what you think you've launched, how big do you think your product or your service is? >> well, it's impossible to tell. when we first launched, we were hoping for, you know, maybe 400, 500 people. now we're at 100,000 people. so who knows where we're going next? >> mark zuckerberg started this company when he was 19. the culture at facebook was very broey. there were people in the

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charts. >> the idea was that pc was stuck in its old ways and corporate and that was the thing that inflamed you when you watched. i want to be like justin long. i want to be like the mac. i want to be fun and young and hip. i don't want to be like john hodgman. who was hilarious. >> you never saw me. >> never saw who? >> me. pc. >> oh. >> part of apple's marketing success was steve jobs, who cared a lot about advertising and what those commercials looked like. >> so that ad got a certain amount of attention. >> steve jobs turned apple from a computer company into a consumer products company. and the consumer products is what not only saved apple but made it the hottest thing in the history of the world practically. >> all eyes are on apple computers and steve jobs this morning. in just a few hours jobs will make a very big announcement, and that's all we know. >> this is a day i've been looking forward to for 2 1/2 years. >> steve jobs took the stage and said today at the apple keynote we're going to unveil three

products. >> three things. a widescreen ipod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device. >> and the crowd is going yay, three new products. he said, "let me say that again." >> an ipod, a phone, and an internet communicator. >> these are not three products. >> are you getting it? this is one device. [ applause ] and we are calling it iphone. >> i remember my brain was just exploding. i'm like, how -- wait, how can you -- what? explain this. >> let's take a look at a revolutionary phone. >> in decades past technology had moved in relatively predictable generational cycles. so you'd have a good sense of what the next generation of cell phones, what features they would have. >> we call it the pinch to make

it bigger or smaller. >> the iphone seemed like a device that had been beamed into your hands from 10 or 15 years in the future. it skipped an entire generation of technology. maybe even two generations. >> it's the iphone. a new generation of gadget that's a phone, ipod, computer, even a camera, all rolled up in one. i don't know what it is but i want it. >> take a look at this picture. at first blush it looks something like rescue workers being applauded. but as the camera widens out, we see it is simply the apple store. iday finally arrived. and at the appointed hour the faithful streamed into apple stores across the country. >> yeah, he's a winner winner chicken dinner. did you get one, laura ingle? >> not -- >> failure. that's a failure. >> here it is, the object of all the attention, all the affection and all the hype. and those umbrellas behind me, people waiting in the hot california sun to get their hands on one. >> the iphone was so transformative.

it gave people the sense of what they got when they first saw the internet. it was like a magic trick. >> look how beautiful and small it is. >> apple makes it seamless, makes it feel good, makes you feel cool, and that's what this thing is. you can get everything this thing does already, probably for less money, but apple has made it hot. >> it quickly became the category killer for phones. >> 700,000 iphones were sold just in the first week. now, you may think spending 500 or 600 bucks on a cell phone slash ipod is crazy. >> $500? fully subsidized with a plan? i said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. >> microsoft thought the iphone was stupid. they didn't get it. they weren't google. >> the internet is abuzz with word google is looking to expand into the cell phone business.

>> you guys may have heard also that yesterday we made an interesting announcement about a little phone. so i thought i'd just show that. >> a year later google unveils the android phone, which was google's attempt to capitalize on the success of apple's formula. >> the very first one comes out next week from t-mobile, and it's called -- ah, ah, ah, the t-mobile g-1. so what's it like? well, it's like the iphone. >> they had striking similarities in terms of both use a touch interface. both had a big wide screen on the front there. both had google maps. both had a way to download apps that worked very similarly and some of the apps were the same. >> google hopes it will take over the whole mobile market just as it has done the internet. >> given their relationship steve jobs felt he had been betrayed by google. >> you're on the board of apple. any tension on the board around

the fact you guys are starting to get in each other's business? >> as a board member at apple eric schmidt was privy to meetings where the iphone was discussed, and steve jobs was pissed. >> the battle between apple ceo steve jobs and google ceo eric schmidt getting personal. >> steve jobs simply hates eric schmidt right now. that's how bitter this rivalry has gotten. >> eventually, eric schmidt had to leave the apple board. the competition was on. >> if google did not act, we faced a draconian future. a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. that's a future we don't want. [ applause ] ted. (chuckles) it's a metaphor.

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i were lucky enough to get bill gates and steve jobs on a stage together. it was an interview. >> you know, bill built the first software company, before anybody really knew what a software company was. >> if you were going to pick two people who basically started the personal tech revolution, they were the right two people to pick. >> what's the greatest

misunderstanding in your relationship about each other? the idea of catfight, this idea of -- which of the many? >> we've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now. >> these two people were the most significant forces in technology through our era. and to see them together praising each other and jabbing each other a little in the ribs -- >> i know steve's going to announce his transporter. >> it was really a great moment. and i was lucky to have seen it. >> you are competitors in certain ways. >> we watch the commercials. >> and you get annoyed at each other from time to time. >> i have to confess, i like pc guy. >> he's great. >> i like him. >> the art of those commercial is not to be mean but it's is not to be mean but it's actually for the guys to like each other. >> it was always a tension between them. >> pc guy's great. his mother loves him. >> his mother loves him. >> i'm telling you. >> the companies were always going to be competitors. but when they got on stage, they

were both sweethearts. >> there's that one line in that one beatles song, "you and i have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead." and that's clearly true here. >> it was a great moment for the two of us and for the people in the room and for the people who got to see it. that was really the beginning of the end of the personal computer era. >> when we heard today that the usually unemotional bill gates was in tears when he said his final farewell to microsoft, it wasn't surprising. after all, he was present at the creation. >> i love working with smart people. i love working with steve. i love working with all the incredible people here. we've been given an enormous, enormous opportunity. and bill gave us that opportunity. i want to thank bill for that, and i want you to too.

[ applause ] >> it was the lost decade for microsoft. they just lost a lot of their clout. they still were a big important company, but some of these other companies like facebook or google or maybe amazon just accelerated colossally. >> it is quarterly earnings season in corporate america. today amazon.com, the online book seller, reported that its earnings more than doubled in the last three months. >> the economy seems to be crashing all around us. what can the people who are now trying to fix what's broken learn from your experience at amazon? >> i would say think long term. >> i think the reason that these companies like amazon, apple and google survived was because they unlocked this whole new engine of innovation. >> one of the big motivating factors for us is just creating something that we all want ourselves. >> technology and technology companies became the preeminent force in the business world.

something that had started small really started to fulfill its destiny as a major disruptive change across many different industries. >> now with more than a billion searches performed every day plus google images, google maps, google books, google finance, gmail and youtube, the company share of the market is huge. >> when google bought youtube, it was a big deal, especially for a lot of youtubers because up until this point you were just making stuff for fun. there was no option or even in our heads like a possibility to make money from it. >> it's no secret that americans love to watch videos on the internet. but who knew you could get rich making them? >> with google's power behind it, youtube was able to grow in a way the startup never could. >> youtube's now so influential it co-hosted last night's democratic presidential debate. the questions came from users of the site. >> if you were elected president of the united states, would you allow us to be married? >> i don't think that any of us

could have possibly predicted the role that social networks would play in the u.s. presidential elections. >> candidates are gaining political supporters the way social networkers find friends. the potential voting audience is immense. myspace.com sees up to 56 million unique visitors a month and about 80% are voting age. >> while both campaigns hope their supporters spread the word, obama is friended almost seven times more than mccain. >> the obama campaign happened around the time when social media was experiencing a coming of age. >> barack obama created the movement behind him. he's the first candidate we've ever seen who had an organization that brought together, the internet and the community organizing. >> the obama had the internet. he had myspace and facebook. it certainly changed the way that candidates communicated with their base. it changed the way that we thought about how we could communicate and influence candidates. >> one of the most enduring images of campaign '08 is this

one of barack obama. >> that barack obama image, it's here, there, everywhere it seems this year. >> when i met obama, he said, "i love this image, and how did you get it spread around so fast?" >> seeing the hope poster as a digital phenomenon was pretty amazing. it really made me realize the power of social media to democratize and proliferate. >> we're trying to translate all of that online enthusiasm and energy to success. >> in three simple words, yes, we can. thank you, south carolina. i love you. >> if not for social media, barack obama would never have been elected president. it gave us the ability to connect to a new generation of voters. >> barack obama will be the 44th president of the united states. >> on election night i went to this party and all of silicon

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i wouldn't know a twitter from a tweeter. but apparently it is very important. >> i don't know what that is. twitter, what does it mean? >> tell me exactly what twitter is. >> by the end of the decades there were a lot of companies trying to be the next big social network. >> it allows users to text thousands of other users at once. messages by tweets asks the question what are you doing. >> when i joined twitter it was all about eating lunch. i was on it for three days and saying i don't want to know how much. >> is there such a thing as too much information? >> why are you a tweeter? >> trying to cut out the middleman. getting the cans to know the real me.

>> the 140 limit. it was attractive. >> in the past number the twitter users grew 343% with nearly 2.5 million people on the site. i'm one of them. >> twitter became dominant platform are for communication day in and day out. that's part of the magic of working on the internet. you really know how this stuff is going to play out. >> big news in the computer world. steve jobs who turned apple from a boutique computer company into a technology be helm mouth say he's taking a leave of absence due to health issues. >> steve was a lot sicker towards the end of his liechltd than he wanted to acknowledge. >> it's frankly been a battle with investors where he said it's none of your business. i'm doing fine. then when he does give updates, even ten days ago, he says he'll be staying on at the company for the foreseeable future. ten days later that changed. that's the real concern on wall

street. >> there was national economic importance tied to the health of steve jobs. and at that point stockholders were beginning to ask what was going on. >> in the city of san francisco today, apple, ceo steve jobs, returned to the spotlight. he appeared on stage at a company event after a six machine month medical leave. >> when he came back to work, his voice wasn't weak or anything. he was drinking more water, but seen hally it was just as it was when he looked physically normal. >> [ applause ] >> thank you. >> he has wowed the world time and again with his bold inventions. and this week he did it again. >> the ipad. [ applause ] >> to be at the front of the line at the san francisco apple store, you had to camp out starting at 10:30 last night. and that's just what max ackerman did. >> the ipad. and i was first. >> and recommendly impressed by

it. i haven't let it out of my hands pretty much for the entire time. >> the ipad wasn't the first tablet. but it was the best. >> steve jobs turned a dying company into possibly the greatest company america has ever seen. >> where do you fit in the american family of thinkers and inventors? >> you know, i don't -- i don't really think that way. >> steve jobs is kind of like the thomas edison crossed with pablo picasso with a touch of pt bar none. he has the style. he has the flare. he has the genus and creativity and vision. >> a few weeks ago we sold our 2 250 millionth ipad. >> if you have a couple of the machines that steve jobs created, you have access to actually everything in the world. that takes a brand of vision nary who was always asking why not.

>> somebody once called me the iceo a year ago and i liked that so i'm going to choose that as my title if that's okay with you to remind myself of what's really important, which is course the internet. >> when the internet first became available to the public, i think a lot of people could easily see that the possibilities were so vast that your brain just went into sparks. >> i think facebook is it actually more valuable as you get older. you've interacted with more people. maybe you've lived in more polices. >> we all grew up in the same neighborhood and we found each other again on facebook. >> it makes me feel connected. i go on that site and i'm home. >> the technology existed. what we needed were vision narys who understand how technology could be put to use for the consumer. >> what is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? always work hard on something uncomfort bly exciting. >> the people who could connect the can-do of technology and the want of consumers, they were the

people that we would be talking about for years afterwards. >> no problem. >> if you would ask someone what's the greatest innovation in the world? silicon is the answer. what's the second? >> people would say you. >> i don't know. >> during the 2000 there was an explosion of ideas. >> this is the new ipad max. >> we had acceleration of evolution that just kept going faster and faster and faster and faster. and in a course of a decade, the world was changed forever. >> i assumed you had nothing, you were just people sitting by a phone. >> yeah. >> or a computer and people would be like i want a bicycle then it would come to amazon, we need to find a bicycle, then you would run out lan get a bicycle and write amazon on it, then you would send it to people's houses. i didn't know you actually made things. >> well, we started working on this four years ago. mostly we do pretty much what you described.

>> thank you. >> let me ask you this, why is it if i wanted it delivered in three days, it's $1.50 but if i want it delivered in two days it's $85? why is that? what's going on there? >> it's amazing that there was a time what you said could get you locked up in prison. >> actually, accrued a reputation for being a rev and. >> i cuss gratutiously, but subject matter is another story. >> this will ab good show. >> are there any subjects that are never appropriate for humans? >> people say a good comedian doesn't have to cuss. i thought that's [ bleep ] rubbish. >> why is that so funny? >> i don't know. what you are going to hear is going to shock and disgust you. >> if you go blue, you have to do it