Found Footage: Steve Jobs interview on CNBC
After all the excitement and iPhone-ness of yesterday's Keynote, Steve sat down with Jim Goldman of CNBC to talk iPhone. Goldman asked Steve about the conspicious lack of an iPhone intro date for both Russia and China, which are pretty big markets. Steve says that we should look for some announcements later this year on those fronts.
Goldman also asked why Wall Street has such a love/hate relationship with Apple. Steve responding by noting that Apple has had record quarter after record quarter, and Wall Street usually comes out at the right place.
Thanks, John.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
artifex said 4:44PM on 6-10-2008
Do Russia and China have 3G networks?
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Klang said 11:02AM on 6-11-2008
3G is available in St.Petersburg Russia for half a year already with two different providers. Suspect that if there is a Russian branch of Apple (which I'm not sure, but most likely). They are just not doing their Jobs well. A huge market is flooded with unofficial iPhones without contract and other apple products that are sold by resellers almost twice the price.
Rowdehaj said 5:09PM on 6-10-2008
Kinda worried about how he looks. Does he look skinnier to anyone else?
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jf said 5:36PM on 6-10-2008
My sister was talking about the same exact thing. His weight looks pretty unhealthy, but I'm not doctor so I don't know.
Linz said 5:27PM on 6-10-2008
I thought the same thing when watching the keynote. However, after seeing a clip from MacWorld I think it's just because he's shaved his beard off.
John Pastor said 5:56PM on 6-10-2008
Turns out Steve has a "common bug" according to an Apple spokeswoman.
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/06/10/steve-jobss-appearance-grabs-notice-not-just-the-iphone/
Argent said 6:54PM on 6-10-2008
I noticed the same thing, so I pulled up video of the Macworld keynote from January, and yes, the beard does make a bit of a difference. However, if you go back to the January 2007 Macworld keynote, the differences are a lot more striking. Steve Jobs has lost a noticeable amount of weight in the last year and a half.
Michael said 5:29PM on 6-10-2008
artifex,
yes they do have the infrastructure for it, but the bigger question is will it be pushed out. Currently everyone is using edge for the iPhone in Russia (unofficial of course). Just as a quick sidenote, WiMax mobile is against the law in russia. Only WiMax stationary equipment is permissible. Not sure how 3G plays out in all of this.
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Jason Hung said 6:14PM on 6-10-2008
China Mobile （中國移動通信）and Apple left the negotiation table in January. I suspect they'll resume talks when either China Mobile or Apple starts to bend backwards for each other. Having done business in China, Chinese negotiators will initially be stubborn, but it won't be long before they'll start working with you.
Apparently, China Mobile started rumors that it was going to carry Blackberries, and Apple didn't take to it too kindly: "(China Mobile) knows that Apple is talking to all the Chinese carriers," Blackfriars' Carl Howe speculated a few months back. "So it spreads rumors that the talks have broken down and seeds another rumor that it is bringing in Blackberries for its customers instead." (http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/china-mobile-an.html)
Like everyone else has stated, China is too big of a market to miss, especially given the large number of illegal iPhone sales going to China. The rich/upper-class Chinese have an appreciation of brand names, and Apple would be wise to not miss out on this opportunity.
I'm surprised they didn't enter a deal with Taiwan telecom providers, given that they brokered one with Hong Kong. Maybe because its economy has been doing so poorly the last few years...
Seth A said 5:50PM on 6-10-2008
I like that stab at investors. I mean its true, people said the iPod would ruin Apple too, stock dropped. I think we just need to trust Apple knows what they are doing, seriously. Nobody believed me in 2000 when I said buy AAPL, I am rolling in the dough now. :-) Well, not really, I kinda spent it all already. But still have some stock left. I think I will keep it though college.
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DistortedLoop said 6:04PM on 6-10-2008
AAPL's a large cap that trades like a small cap. Pretty predictable patterns if you watch it around events.
Big traders love to push it around and play the volatility. They make a killing on the MOVES, not the long term holds.
Phelim said 8:01AM on 6-11-2008
Still calling it Apple Computer.... what happened to news that was researched before it went out?
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