A Tribute to Steve Jobs

Hi, I'm Steve Jobs.

Every once in a while, a revolutionary product

comes along that changes everything.

Today-

we're introducing three revolutionary

products of this class.

And I would like to take the privilege

of showing you what they're going to look like.

But before we get to that

[laughter]

I want to go back to 1977-

Apple, a young fledgling company on the West Coast

invents the Apple II, the first personal computer

as we know it today. IBM dismisses the

personal computer as too small to do serious computing

and unimportant to their business.

1984-

Now I'd like to show you Macintosh in person.

[computer speaking]

In 2001-

The choice we made was music,

now why music? Well, we love music

and it's always good to do something you love

and that product is called iPod.

Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.

You gotta see this thing in person,

but I'll do the best I can with video.

This is iMac. The whole thing is translucent

you can see into it. It's so cool!

And we'd like to show it to you today for the first time.

And we call it, the iPad. That's what it looks like.

Very thin.

It's so thin, it even fits inside

one of these envelopes that we've

all seen floating around the office.

This is the new MacBook Air.

A few weeks ago we announced a user

downloaded the 3 billionth application

from the app store. Now something very exciting.

It's my pleasure today to announce Mac OS X.

[cheering and clapping]

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love.

I skate to where the puck is going to be,

not where it has been.

And we've always tried to do that at Apple

since the very, very beginning

and we always will.

So thank you

very, very much for being a part of this.

[cheering and clapping]

But, we're not done yet because-

I'd like to let Macintosh speak for itself.

[computer speaking]

[cheering]

[cheering continues]