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CNET News - Steve Jobs predicts iPad and App Store in unearthed speech

2012-10-04
a year has passed since Steve Jobs's death but his star has hardly faded so what I'd love to do now is show you the stuff in fact it's the opposite his legacy is probably increased because people now that he's gone reflect on some of the things that he did and realize what a genius he was a newly unearthed speech given by jobs at the International Design Conference in Aspen in 1983 offers a glimpse at his uniquely futuristic vision in it the Apple CEO describes what sounds like an iPad what we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you if you can learn how to use them 20 more and we really want to do it with a radio link what Jobs goes on to say that software should be sold electronically with customers getting samples just as radio stations offer a taste of a record album we'll give you 30 seconds of this program for free or we'll give you five screenshots we let you play with it for a day and if you want to buy it just type in your visa number you got it I don't know how we're gonna do it but we need a radio station that may have been the genesis of the iTunes and App Store ideas that Jobs helped shape and create still fill apple's product pipeline we're gonna see innovation in new products that still have Steve's stamp of approval for at least another three years the iPhone 5 has already sold millions globally a pint-sized version of the iPad is rumored to be unveiled in mid-october and Jobs revealed to his biographer that Apple had quote finally cracked the television beyond Apple's products will continue to see Steve Jobs as vision in other places this is the future site of Apple's new campus jobs described it as looking a bit like a spaceship that had just landed we've seen these these office parks with lots of buildings and they get pretty boring pretty fast the four-story ring with its curved glass shuns standard Silicon Valley architecture unconventional and elegant the hallmarks of a Steve Jobs design in San Francisco I'm samhitas cnet.com for CBS News you
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