Here's a look back at Steve Jobs' career at Apple, in videos that capture his ability to grab an audience.
Borrowing the idiosyncratic (and some would say infectious) phraseology of Steve Jobs himself, admirers speak of his "insanely great" presentation skills. With Jobs' resignation yesterday as Apple's CEO, we offer a roundup of video clips that capture his ability to grab an audience.
"Was George Orwell right about 1984?" During a keynote speech not long before the debut of the Mac, Jobs offers one answer to that question by unveiling the famous Ridley Scott-directed Big Brother commercial.
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At Apple's 1984 shareholder's meeting, Jobs lets the Mac out of the bag--and the crowd goes wild.
This once "lost" video exists because not all shareholders could get into the meeting and Apple was required by law to broadcast it on public TV. Scott Knaster had his Betamax at the ready and years later converted the tape to digital. Check out Jobs' gigantic smile as he (and the Mac) get a standing ovation. (Prepare to get a little choked up.)
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In this short clip from a documentary called "Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress," Jobs is already sporting the look that would later become a trademark: jeans and a black mock turtleneck.
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While introducing Apple's "Think Different" campaign, Jobs delivers an exemplary primer on branding and talks about Apple's central values. He also underlines his (and Apple's) hippie-humanitarian roots by sporting Birkenstocks.
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Dismissing the traditional PC as "ugggg-ly," Jobs unveils his (and Jony Ive's) translucent, kandy-kolored iMac baby. The look of computers (not to mention staplers, tape dispensers, clothes irons, and just about anything else you can imagine) is never the same again.
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The idea of explaining the virtues of the iPod seems quaint now, but here's Jobs smoothing the way for Apple's game-changing, iconic MP3 player.
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Jobs introduces the then-new iMac and gets into some photographic high jinks with the then-new PhotoBooth app--bulging, squeezing, and Light Tunneling his famous face.
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Delivering a commencement speech at Stanford University, Jobs talks about dropping out of college, getting fired from the company he founded, and being told he had three months to live (an obviously incorrect diagnosis). He also leaves the students with a quote from the last issue of Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth Catalog."
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Long before the Gizmodo-iPhone pother, Jobs takes a playful swipe at the Apple rumor mill as he demonstrates a podcasting feature in the GarageBand app.
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During the D5 confab, All Things Digital brings Jobs together with his old nemesis Bill Gates for some great moments. These guys should have taken this show on the road.
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At Apple's traditional fall entertainment event, Jobs makes his first public appearance after his initial medical leave and his liver transplant.
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Jobs talks with D8's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher about the genesis of the iPad and the coming shift in the computing landscape.
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Praising the iPad at its launch, Jobs and friends unleash the adjectives in this rapid-fire vid from artist Neil Curtis.
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