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Steve Jobs: Let the post-PC era begin (live blog)

Editor's note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component below. Replaying the event will give you all the live updates along with commentary from our readers and a few CNET editors. For those of you who just want the updates, we've included them in regular text here.

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--The D: All Things Digital conference kicked off Tuesday night with an appearance by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. CNET's Ina Fried covered the event live, with additional coverage from Josh Lowensohn and Apple watcher Erica Ogg.

In a wide-ranging chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at D8, Jobs told why PCs are like trucks, shared a secret of the iPad's birth, and said the story of a missing iPhone would make a great movie. Jobs' talk comes just as Apple has passed Microsoft to become the most valuable tech company and takes place on the eve of Apple's developer conference.

We'll also be covering the rest of All Things D, which runs through Thursday and includes appearances by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, HTC CEO Peter Chou, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, and many others.

6:01 p.m. PDT: We're all seated, just waiting for Jobs, Swisher, and Mossberg.

6:03 p.m. PDT: News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch will kick things off, with Jobs likely to take the stage around 6:10 or so.

6:04 p.m. PDT: Despite the fact that this is a crowd full of big wigs, folks were lining up to get a good seat. A sign of just how big a draw Steve Jobs really is. I saw him earlier, he's in his standard uniform.

6:05 p.m. PDT (Josh Lowensohn): Hello readers, thanks for joining us. I'll be keeping an eye on your comments and adding some to our stream. Also, some of your questions will be answered by Ina, Erica Ogg, and myself, if we can squeeze them in. Please don't get too frustrated if we don't include yours, as we tend to get quite a few of them during one of these events. Thanks! … Read more

Steve Jobs to keynote WWDC 2010

Apple on Monday confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs will deliver the opening keynote address at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month.

Jobs' keynote will kick off this year's conference on Monday, June 7, at 10 a.m. PDT. Typically, the event is held in Moscone West in San Francisco, the same place Apple holds the developer conference.

It's widely expected that Jobs will talk about iPhone OS 4, the new mobile operating system unveiled in April, and perhaps give some details on the next-generation iPhone 4G. Last year Jobs was out on medical leave and … Read more

Adobe fights Apple with pro-Flash ad campaign

Adobe Systems may not have a chief executive with Steve Jobs' high profile, but it does have money. And on Thursday it began spending some of it on an effort to rebut the Apple CEO's criticisms of Adobe's Flash technology.

The campaign includes a Web site promoting choice, an accompanying "truth about Flash" page rebutting some Apple criticisms, and a letter from Adobe co-founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock that brings a personal answer to Jobs. They don't mention Jobs or or Apple by name, but there's no mistaking the target.

"The genius … Read more

Printing coming to iPad?

An e-mail reportedly from Apple CEO Steve Jobs answers the question of whether printing will come to the iPad, according to MacRumors.com. A customer apparently wrote on Friday evening:

Dear Steve,

Why no printing on the iPad? What gives?

About 15 minutes later, Jobs apparently responded in his typical, terse style:

It will come.

Sent from my iPhone

MacRumors does acknowledge that such e-mails are "difficult to authenticate." However, it's not unlike Jobs to respond to customers via e-mail. He recently answered questions about iPad data plans and about MacBook Pro updates.

While consumers wait for … Read more

Friday Poll: What's your stance in the Flash fight?

As you've probably heard by now, Steve Jobs this week posted an open letter on Apple's Web site outlining the company's reasons for not adopting Flash on i-products like the iPad and the iPhone.

Jobs outlined six points of contention Apple has with Adobe over Flash. They are, in order: that Flash isn't an open platform; that it's not needed because H.264 works fine for streaming video; that it kills a mobile device's battery in short order; that the Flash interface was designed for mousing, not touching; and that with HTML5 and the … Read more

Adobe CEO rebutts Jobs' Flash comments (video)

Flash fight! As we reported earlier Thursday, Steve Jobs released an open letter discussing Apple's stance on the controversy surrounding the lack of Flash in Apple's mobile products. Following this letter, The Wall Street Journal interviewed Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe, who discussed the letter and offered his rebuttal.

Narayen describes Jobs' letter as an extraordinary attack, following with descriptions of Apple as a company that's using the idea of open standards as a smokescreen to legitimize its restrictiveness and closed nature. He describes every one of Jobs' statements as false.

The Journal has a small article highlighting the interview, … Read more

Steve Jobs' letter explaining Apple's Flash distaste

Editor's note: Here is the full text of the open letter from Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs explaining why Apple won't let Flash or Flash-derived applications onto the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. By mousing over the yellow highlighted portions of Jobs' letter, you can read comments related to that text from CNET readers and others around the Web that we found insightful.

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe's founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter … Read more

Jobs: Why Apple banned Flash from the iPhone

In a rare open letter published Thursday, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has detailed the technological reasons behind his company's refusal to let Adobe Systems' Flash Player onto the iPhone: he thinks it's a relic, not the future.

"Flash was created during the PC era--for PCs and mice," Jobs said in the letter. "New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.&… Read more

Steve Jobs to be interviewed at D Conference

Steve Jobs doesn't submit to many interviews, so when he does, it's pretty big news.

Tech blog AllThingsD on Tuesday announced that Jobs will headline the eighth annual D: All Things Digital conference, scheduled for June 1 through 3 in Palos Verdes, Calif. He is scheduled to be the main interviewee on opening night.

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and AllThingsD's Kara Swisher will be conducting the interview.

Jobs last appeared at the D Conference in 2007, in a joint interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, in which the two reflected on each other's … Read more

Steve Jobs: If you want porn, get an Android

Pornography, like disappointment, is a hard thing to avoid.

As both production and access have become easier and cheaper, there seems an endless number of (free) opportunities to discreetly partake of the same scenes over and over again played by different actors with different surgical histories.

However, if the latest e-mail purportedly sent by Apple CEO Steve Jobs to a customer called Matthew Browning is, indeed, genuine, then Apple seems to be reaching for some moral high ground, which may or may not be virtual.

Browning wrote to Jobs because he was concerned that Apple was choosing to become something … Read more