Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

Apple Macintosh premiere with Steve Jobs and the Mac team, Boston Computer Society General Meeting, January 30, 1984. Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh, followed by a panel including Steve Capps, Andy Hertzfeld, Randy Wigginton, Bill Atkinson, Bruce Horn, Burrell Smith, Owen Densmore, and Rony Sebok.
Recorded: January 30, 1984
Catalog Number: 102739983

[@nickadams7696]

the applause for the eraser at 30:44 almost brought a tear to my eye. the shit we take for granted today.

[@xzavierhamilton1131]

okay but, 1:18:43 almost brought a tear to my eye, me not realizing those checkered vans came out in the 80's

[@MarkFlieger]

I actually attended this Boston Computer Society meeting when Jobs and his team introduced the Mac to the East coast. The atmosphere was electric because we all could tell we were witnessing history. It changed my life and pointed me in a career direction that I could not be happier about. Steve Jobs had a profound impact on a lot of people's lives. 🙂

[@debv.c]

Wowing wish I was there! Of course I wasn't born at the time but it just feels amazing just reading your comment, surely a once in a lifetime experience.

[@christianmoreno7390]

Wow, awesome!!

[@addin8585]

Ppl in 2023: i dont want a career

[@Indestructibly97]

It's great to be witnessing such a moment and realising it on the spot. May I ask you how exactly it affected your life, career, and any other aspects of it?

[@I.Micha_Verny]

The greatest inventor ever is Steve Jobs

[@GrayCatbird1]

Jobs is so eloquent he can make me excited about a 30 year old computer. It feels like this is a fresh, new, exciting machine.

[@jherrera3058]

That's because easily marketable brain dead sheep have always been easy to sell to and in the same way.

[@aboutthiscomputer]

@@jherrera3058 who hurt you

[@enderfluke4257]

rip. Jobs was a marketing genius and a visionary.

[@aboutthiscomputer]

@@davidpoland2313 I hope your family did alright

[@enderfluke4257]

@@davidpoland2313 David, I understand you so well. MACs have always been expensive, never cheap. For this reason, AMIGAs were rightfully loved. Because they had everything, they were sold at reasonable prices. It could connect to the TV, it might sound strange, but that means a lot for the poor.

[@harshitaseeja3290]

Who's here after reading Steve jobs by Walter Isaacson. How this event was described in the book, I thought Damn I had to see it

[@alexkoshythomas7835]

Same here 😁

[@pthompson240]

@@alexkoshythomas7835 That's exactly what brought me here! I said, I bet this is on you tube!

[@vsegdavseti8847]

Yeah

[@enjoyablemusic3369]

Meeee, After reading, I am also watching the presentation!

[@cesara.gutierrezpedraza9421]

Chapter 15 min 8:04 audiobook

[@NDakota79]

How incredibly proud he is. Like a father seeing his child doing his first steps.

[@cancel5015]

Pathetic when you think about his older daughter...

[@GamingBoyColor]

The kids: Iphone iPad Imac AirTag Apple watch

[@Applefan7197]

@@GamingBoyColor maybe not the air tag

[@jhonjhon1740]

@@Applefan7197 or the Apple Watch

[@Applefan7197]

@@jhonjhon1740 yup

[@ravenger2445]

This mans microphone in 1984 was better than most small KZbinrs' microphones today.

[@zunwang2214]

You don't need a full series of lessons to teach you how to be a good presenter, just watch a few Steve Jobs Video

[@shubham8130]

Who is here after reading Steve jobs

[@joejoey7272]

ShuBham ✋🏻

[@harshitaseeja3290]

Meeee

[@guisanfe]

Watching all videos as the book goes..

[@robertisham5279]

Me

[@kanyisoncapai8378]

Quarantine and read.

[@PatrickLipo]

30:14 Somehow this makes me happy. These people were witnessing history, ABSOLUTELY GOBSMACKED over features we take for granted like an eraser tool, zooming in, and region cut and paste. Listen to them gasp! It was a stunning thing to experience for the first time as a consumer raised on text interfaces.

[@bierundkippen720]

They could have experienced this at Xerox Parc years before.

[@PatrickLipo]

Yes, I've heard it a million times, I was in CS in the 80's and saw a lot of early GUI features that eventually made their way into mainstream OSes as well. Many of us are well aware of Xerox Parc's groundbreaking work. However, but to claim that there's nothing special about this moment, when the general public was brought into the world of computers, when they ceased being scary boxes with a black screen and flashing cursor, ignores what really happened to the world *at that moment*, and the army of people who contributed to it.

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

I absolutely loved watching that demo. It also reminded of watching people gasping at the first iPhone keynote when Steve showcased pinch to zoom and flick to scroll gestures. Apple with Jobs always had this magic about them. From Mac to Macbooks to iPod to iPhone. It’s this magic that Tim Cook’s Apple is missing (not his fault, it’s a tough act to follow Jobs).

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

@@bierundkippen720 here we go again with “xyz did it first”. No one is denying this. What Apple is good at is taking existing tech and implementing it in a way that makes sense and life easy for everyday customers. Multitouch technology did exist before the iPhone but not on a screen. Apple was the one that took that tech and integrated it with a display. Also touchscreen phones did exist before the iPhone but iPhone was revolutionary not because it did it first, but the execution was superb. So much so that it didn’t matter if the OS at that time was missing so many basic features like copy and paste.

[@bierundkippen720]

@@PurushNahiMahaPurush Tim Cook does it better.

[@mooreel]

I just love how they instantly nailed the paint program in example. That was basically the standard for a decade

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Note how Apple back then had a good quality, innovative product... and didn’t feel the need to sell you “services” at all. Good times.

[@ForViewingOnly]

What an incredible time this was: To see the first demonstrations of features that we have taken for granted for years. And to see such a slick presentation by a team that were totally switched on. Fantastic piece of history here.

[@kiran-thetributechannel]

The most moment in software history

[@synclavier123]

Genius move to have the soft-spoken software engineer who designed the paint program actually demonstrate it. The audience is completely smitten, and now all the digital artists are fantasizing about how they will use these new features.

[@scan4707]

12:23 "There are about 235 people in America"

[@trivet1970]

oooops

[@MuhammadIlhamuodd254512]

idk what 1984 of USA population looks like ?

[@paper2222]

Muhammad Ilham definitely more than 235

[@stefan-ls7yd]

paper2222 not sure. Need proof

[@lauranicole9479]

what does he mean by this?

[@StereoBucket]

1:05:55 OMG, He hinted at the easter egg they left in the ROM chip, the picture of the team that built the macintosh. This feels so special.

[@lightlyfluffedcopypasta8572]

I noticed this too!!

[@fitradical]

yeah!!

[@harshsharma9322]

Yoooooo!!

[@wicklow4905]

The elegance and charisma of this guy is flawless

[@StephenKing-wb2ve]

40 years later, it was still a extremely touching moment watching that video demo on Macintosh. And I'm watching this video on the newest MacBook. How technology has evolved, I mean, I'm now able to train my own GPT on my MacBook.

[@JB-kx9bx]

Steve Jobs was the GOAT of product release presentations.

[@bierundkippen720]

And you are the GOAT of simple minds.

[@notoriousfly9260]

@@bierundkippen720 And you are the GOAT of snakes🐍

[@Aurora12488]

​@@bierundkippen720 LOL, nice one little bro. You can acknowledge the endless flaws of Jobs while also absolutely recognizing how charismatic, influential, and forward-thinking he was. People aren't black-and-white, but enjoy your feeling of superiority by being the most basic-ass contrarian.

[@bierundkippen720]

@@Aurora12488 "enjoy your feeling of superiority" Thanks. "how [...] forward-thinking he was" Well, he didn't even recognize the meaning of the app store. He didn't know what the iPhone meant for the future. What he wanted was to make a product which was superior to all other products. He pushed forward technology for the sake of technology, but he didn't know what it meant. He only realized it shortly before he died.

[@akumarus]

Steve was a complete no BS guy! What a legend! We only see someone like him once in a life time

[@JoeDiamond110]

There was actually a ton of BS in this presentation. That demo machine wasn’t even the 128K. It was a prototype 512K. The 128K couldn’t do text-to-speech.

[@kiran-thetributechannel]

@@JoeDiamond110 Dude, Most companies do that. Apple must've suffered with some manufacturing problems, There are so many products from so many companies that deliver what they promised because of some issues. In 2007 iPhone event, it was a phone with a plastic screen but just after the event, they added a glass screen

[@silence8806]

@@kiran-thetributechannel Yes, but the Mac 512K came six months after they sold their first Macs. So yes, a lot of BS in that presentation. I remember, their first Mac-BASIC ran slower than Applesoft BASIC on their Apple][, which was driven by a 1 Mhz 8-bit processor. Quite some things on the first Macs ran totally in the wrong direction for the consumer (it was a closed system, for example). A lot of customers who made Apple big, were disappointed and ran away from Apple because of the Mac. When finally the Apple ][gs came out with amazing color graphics (and Apple's first OS with a color GUI), it was too late. The ][gs was too expensive and crippled down anyways.

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@@kiran-thetributechannel Doesn't change Joe's point that the presentation was full of BS.

[@5metoo]

@@Persun_McPersonson - Well then apparently every presentation of products in development is BS. What a trivial issue.

[@stevecase6168]

A truly historical moment in time regarding technology. Love or hate him, and without being an actual developer, Steve intimately knew the products that Apple was selling.

[@mrdabss]

Who even hates Steve Jobs 😂

[@XXXRIPROACH]

Crazy how their presentations still follow the same format and have the same vibe

[@one_step_sideways]

Unless they didn't and that's just a remake of the presentations (beyond the fact that they're unnaturally high definition)

[@ferrreira]

@@one_step_sideways I think they're making reference to the whole event, not only the slides

[@irixperson]

@@one_step_sideways No, those are what the slides looked like. There's nothing unnatural about the pictures being in high definition when you're viewing them on a computer with a high definition screen because they were likely contained in digital format and exported for this video. Also, the background projection itself was not in such terrible quality that the video of this conference makes everything out to be.

[@itskittyme]

that's doesn't really sound innovative 😲

[@oxewhocares]

@@irixperson Exactly this.

[@albertomartinez714]

Interesting to pair this with his iPhone presentation 23 years later. Even though the technologies are universes apart, Jobs manages to convey how revolutionary and exciting each was.

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

It is so weird how the framework for all subsequent apple keynotes was set here, right here in 1984. It's all here, to this day this is the basic keynote. And just listening to this makes me want to buy a 1984 macintosh... Im not a fanboy but I understand marketing. This is almost like the first Kraftwerk concert.

[@xerzy]

that's EXACTLY what I was thinking as I saw how he explained the hard work behind and how revolutionary making things easy for the masses was and how he showed the graphs (wow they look CRISP!). And it's not only the keynotes! Notice how he focuses on servers, networking, UNIX - he had already planned how to build what eventually became OS X!

[@julienberthelot]

Xerz what eventually became NeXT and then OS X!

[@CManagaka]

Not even confined to Apple keynotes, but keynotes in general as way for companies-usually big techs companies but not only-to showcase their new products. They're exactly doing the same today, even for video games! They go on and on and on about what you will acquire, making sure you think it's over-expensive only to announce a price, yet expensive, but you feel that it's okay. Anyway, check out other conferences, you'll see a lot in common!

[@sanwal8]

This day changed the entire computers industry

[@cjeelde]

Yes and no... people almost always forget Lisa 1983. It was a Mac, kind of, but in another shape. Mac had a better design and a lower price. It all started with Lisa. It was too expensive. That was a big problem. The history: Jobs had a mission to develop two new computers: Lisa and Mac. Jobs believed most in Lisa. It all started before the Xerox PARC visit. Lisa and Mac was planned to have a command line interface like Apple II and MS-DOS. But after the Xerox PARC visit Jobs changed everything! Both Lisa and Mac must have that GUI and mouse and everything! The main difference between Mac and Lisa was that Mac could not run Lisa apps and vice versa. Apple rebranded a later Lisa into Mac XL with some Mac compatibility. Then they ended Lisa. But it all started with Lisa. Easy to forget Lisa. And why that black & white display? Why not color? Because black & white gave a higher resolution at that time. Even the first NeXT computers had black & white displays. Later on those color displays with good resolution popped up. This is why Mac became the leader in DTP, because of WYSIWYG. You couldn't have that on PC in 1984. So Aldus PageMaker came to Mac. Adobe bought Aldus some years later, ended PageMaker after a while and released InDesign. PageMaker was amazing! So much better than Word, WriteNow and all those apps if you wanted to create a magazine/newspaper. Crazy that the flrst Mac OS could fit into that 64 kB ROM! I've never ever used that first Mac 128k... wonder how many or few units of Mac 128k that still exist today and still working...

[@brianbarcus5853]

It's amazing to see the beginnings of everything we take for granted in basic computing these days like the mouse, text and graphics editing, fonts, and on and on! You can see the tremendous skills Steve Jobs has in leadership, marketing, and summing up the fabulous features the Apple team is striving to produce in a computing market stagnating in an older corporate-driven world lacking fresh new ideas of the younger generation. I didn't realize the Apple computers brought so many innovations that were later claimed by Bill Gates as new features of Windows.

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

and i woukd loke To say we also buyed many mouses of LapTops ....

[@RachelDavis705]

He's claiming they are new features because this is a marketing event. People are so obsessed with giving Steve Jobs credit for things he didn't do lol

[@aniket385]

Ya but his talent was spotting in what ways it could be used. Xerox realeased first GUI with mouse in 1981.... and it failed...same with apple Lisa... it's Macintosh where the art was bigger than technical specifications

[@miniroll32]

54:53 Is this the first time SJ mentioned a Mac and a 'book' openly? Fascinating comment. Just goes to show how far ahead he was thinking, and that the eventual MacBook branding was true to the original vision.

[@kiran-thetributechannel]

MacBook

[@kiran-thetributechannel]

Fun fact : if you read his biography, he planned dumping intel and making their own ARM chip 15 years before M1 macs

[@JaredConnell]

​@@kiran-thetributechannel Don't you mean power book?

[@SirClerihew]

One of the few companies that can deliver on their promises

[@Electronic424]

These guys at the end can really see the future it's amazing.

[@michaelchalkley5484]

I had the privilege of meeting Steve twice in my lifetime: once in 1980 at the Monterey Tech Fest where he and Steve Wozniak pushed their Apple 1. Then in 1994, I was working for Quadrus in Menlo Park, California, on Sand Hill Dr, where our clients included Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield, and Beyers, SDG, Pilkington Vision, Sierra Ventures, Kolberg Kravis Roberts, Informix, and NeXT. We set up for a Steve Jobs luncheon and he comes out to see what we're doing, invites us to stay and watch their meeting. He was truly a personality to reckon with. But super friendly.

[@RetroSho]

Always the showman. Steve was amazing. Demons and all.

[@curtcarlson8312]

This is terrific. It is modeled after what Doug Engelbart at SRI did in 1967 when he demonstrated in San Francisco most of the key features Jobs and his team put together for the Mac. Engelbart's presentation is called the "Mother of All Demos." It is on KZbin and it is still astounding after all these years.

[@IanValentine147]

Thank you for having this historic event online

[@PetsoKamagaya]

Why am being mesmerized by the original Macintosh presentation NOW? I never knew about this presentation. What a find!

[@NytronX]

Still using my 1984 Macintosh as my daily driver for my computer. Great machine..

[@redraiderrider3289]

Why?

[@NytronX]

@@redraiderrider3289 So NSA, CIA, and Mossad can't spy on me.

[@HamburgerHelperDeath]

and yet you're on the Internet@@NytronX

[@realRichHunting]

I'm watching this video on an 8 core, 4GHz, 32GB DDR4 RAM workstation with a 43 inch 4K UHD monitor and all can think about is how damn bad I want one of these old Macs.

[@clementhilty7239]

55:27 Random Audience Member: "Animation!" (the Macintosh didn't have animation features) Steve jobs: "Animation, that's a great word." Steve jobs is the master of presenting

[@SimonGrayDK]

"What about OpenDoc?" "Yeah? What about it?"

[@marcfield1234]

" Hello I am Macintach. It sure is great to get out of that bag." The two greatest sentences ever spoken by machine or man. Thank you Steve Jobs. Rest in peace.

[@Sonictrainkid]

They knew what the were doing. That song that begins at 8:38 has the feeling of freedom. They made the crowd feel like there free from IBM and living a happy life after. Apple knew that the song would make the crowd happy.

[@MySpace202]

10:46 Stephen hawking: “hello i am macintosh it sure is great to be out of this bag”

[@DaryxFox]

Anybody: *uses any early voice synthesizer* Me: It's cool to listen to and compare to modern synthesizers to see how far we've come. Everybody else: it SouNdS LiKE StePhEn HaWkiNg!

[@MySpace202]

@@DaryxFox k

[@martiananomaly]

@@DaryxFox k

[@blukester7994]

@@DaryxFox bro calm down

[@zandadoum]

OMG the Q&A part and that "afterparty" or whatever it was... just a bunch of techs talking about their passion and stuff... no marketing involved. no money... so RAW... I love it

[@BlahBleeBlahBlah]

What a fantastic piece of history! The demonstration and panel Q&A session was fascinating to watch. This group of people managed by Steve Jobs did an amazing job with such limited hardware. It's such a shame that the Mac was so expensive and the progress over the next several years was so limited.

[@Menahem488]

Yes

[@BlahBleeBlahBlah]

Saiyam I’m late to reply, but you’re spot on. What did they do through the late 80’s to mid 90’s other than charge exorbitant amounts to only piss money up the wall on “research” that never saw the light of day .

[@harshitaseeja3290]

Initially priced at $1500 but Scully increased the price

[@valley_robot]

Apple computers were cheaper than IBM PCs and they were more powerful , people do your research

[@Degenerate76]

@@valley_robot Cheaper than IBM's own PCs, yes, but in the mid to late 80s a large number of much cheaper IBM-compatible clones came to market, which made Apple's products look expensive by comparison. Around this time Microsoft was also producing the early versions of Windows. By the time Windows 3 came out in 1990 a similarly easy-to-use GUI experience was available for much lower cost on IBM compatibles, with a much wider range of available software. The Mac user interface was still second to none, and Macs found their niche in certain tasks, in particular Desktop Publishing using Quark Xpress, which was basically the industry standard though the 1990s. That alone is likely what kept Apple afloat in it's dismal period of lacklustre products in the early 1990s. (Until Steve came back in 1997 - everyone knows the story from there.)

[@JoeMama-tl4tr]

This must have been mind blowing seeing this in 1984

[@PeterHerget]

Steve Jobs had such a strong stage presence. I glad he was able to save the "Apple" company for I sure do enjoy using my Apple iPhone nearly 14 years later after it was launched. And yes, I wish I still had the Macintosh from the 1980s...

[@vimalcurio]

Do you have iPhone 12 max pro?

[@Eli_Naturinda]

And some random android fanboy will be triggered by this comment😂

[@perfectstudents8361]

I still remember using a Macintosh for the first time in the 1980s. Its graphical interface were very unique and revolutionary, compared to anything that text-based IBM computers had to offer.

[@daitedve1984]

So called "very unique and revolutionary GUI" was unscrupulously stolen from Xerox.

[@weizheng673]

I wrote my PhD. thesis using Mac draw to draw graphics. In the end, I think that only the graphics got much attention!

[@weizheng673]

@daitedve8581 No. Xerox let them have the technology but did not know what to do with it. Apple negotiated a deal with Xerox to acquire the technology for a certain amount of shares of Apple shares for Xerox. Apple improved the technology. They did not

[@simonvmiller]

@@daitedve1984Stone cold idiot, Xerox charge them to license their research! Get your facts straight meatball because those kind of accusations can get you used! 😂

[@aniket385]

Xerox Star released in 1981 the first GUI PC was a failure....so was Lisa...it's with Macintosh that things change

[@sgauntt]

It’s hard to wrap your head around just how amazing the imagine editing that shot was back then. People look at it now and laugh, but there was nothing like before.

[@bandersnatch6546]

It's amazing how fast that Macintosh started up. I mean, he took it out of the bag and had to plug in the power. It wasn't already powered up. And he stuck that disk and boom, music and graphics started playing.

[@BillHarlowHarlowsKorner]

As I sit here watching a man whom I hold as nothing less than a genius who without him our world would never be the same today. I also sit here watching on its great great great grand son the MacBook Pro while running apps for work on my iPad Air desperately checking my time on my Apple Watch as my iPhone lights up with my schedule telling me my times about up. We love you Steve Jobs you will never be forgotten

[@Apple-xt4vp]

I am remembering when I first used a APPLE Computer I was in School. I loved the experience . I am honored that I was chosen today to share this video thanks to everyone involved.

[@paulj0557tonehead]

My mom, a newspaper journalist, got one of the first two Macintosh computers in Columbus, Ohio. 256k memory , upgraded a month or so later to 512k. Then in December 1984 my dad bought a 20meg hard drive Block that sat under the Mac. It cost $500...for the hard drive.

[@uli8327]

What a great presentation that was, I wish I was alive back then!

[@zaneroote5798]

"it does all the things no personal computer has ever done before" wow it can flip a fish

[@rommix0]

and it can talk.

[@GregoryWilnau]

The speech Jobs put together here is so brilliant it’s ridiculous

[@theKeshaWarrior]

"Ethernet never really took off," wow that sure as hell changed pretty quick in a few years lol.

[@toxiclovept]

He later said they would wait for the standards to take off. It did later

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Jaden Rosencrans Time stamp?

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Jorge Rosa Time stamp?

[@FD00CH]

@@QuarioQuario54321 21:17

[@devaraft]

well because at the time it was IBM who made it and it's not that good. It was proprietary. He did say will wait for the standards

[@evanscarce8206]

That “ahhhh” sigh of relief after the ‘hello’ voice demo says it all

[@evanscarce8206]

FIX IT

[@mgscheue]

Amazing what they managed to do with 128KB of RAM and 64 KB of ROM. Fun seeing Woz and hearing about plans for the II and the III as well. Sadly, the III wasn't the success Jobs painted and was discontinued a little over a year later. (Watched this on my beloved Mac mini.)

[@greatmcluhansghost7134]

Watching on my 4th iPhone

[@alanvonweltin6820]

it is mind blowing to think of the genius that small mac team was to pull off the magic they did with such increadibly constrained requirements they had to work with (ram, storage, cpu). Interesting to think of the alternate time line in a world where Steve never leaves and the Mac team continues to innovate. Apple had at least an 8 year head start in 1984 on Microsoft in terms of having a fully realized GUI.

[@FredroStarr12]

How small was the team?

[@bennysanchez96]

Steve Jobs would be blown away to see what the Mac Studio can do in todays time

[@dancnkc]

I own this computer which I purchased in 1986. Mine, however, is the Mac SE black and white. I fire it up from time to time to see if it will startup and run.... Lots of great memories with that little computer.

[@virdi1992]

i'm in Toronto Canada, born in 1992. I remember in Grade 1-5 we had the Macintosh in the computer Lab. Looking back i'm so glad i had the opportunity to play Math Circus on it. Made learning so much more fun.

[@unleashedfx7220]

Love how he had to read off a piece of paper with generally average presentation skills before he became the master of presentations.

[@markchambers8932]

I'm amazed at how much has essentially remained the same since 1984. Photoshop today functions largely the same as MacPaint did. Even cats were already jumping on keyboards. This is truly a historical year in desktop computing.

[@ahmedo7875]

Yep hein sight is crazy man people back then said this was stupid but now it’s literally part of our everyday lives

[@barbarik1942]

Watching this on my iphone 12 mini. I was not even there when this keynote happened. It’s beautiful how time flies ❤️

[@ArmoredMexican]

Watching this on my new 14" M1 Pro MacBook Pro. How time and technology fly. Thanks Steve!

[@WindowsGG]

8:17 When That Went RIGHT Out The Bag, Apple Changed Forever 8:28 When That First Ever Macintosh Startup Was Heard, Apple REALLY Changed Forever 8:39 When That Macintosh Presented Itself, Apple Will Never Forget This Day (& the iphone one)

[@johnstorm9314]

It's the last Apple product I owned, but I loved my Mac back in the day. I've since turned it into a Macquarium.

[@brettvictory4606]

This is a great snapshot in time. I used the Mac for three years at work. From 1989-1992. However, most consumers couldn’t afford a $2,500 Mac. So,i it was originally used in schools and colleges. The release of Windows for IBM type pc’s killed Apple from being a leading hardware company. Of course, the iPhone is what really made Apple into the company it is today.

[@spavatch]

Most consumers couldn't afford the Mac at $2500, a mainstream price point he claims, so they continued to push Apple II simultaneously for $1400. No wonder Commodore sold more computers for home use than Apple & IBM combined, snatching over one third of the market in the process, if by 1984 they charged just $215 for it. So Mr Jobs acted like an elitist he was by saying there were just two milestones in the industry. Commodore did much more for the home computer market than those two.

[@sanderdejong66]

In The Netherlands it cost 10,000 Dutch Guilders, which made it far too expensive for normal people. Only rich people or institutions/companies could afford it.

[@bierundkippen720]

Wasn't the tiny screen bad to your eyes?

[@jjk087]

iMac and ipod did. It was gradual, by the time iPhone came around apple was more loved than ever. I think the iPhone is the last apple product. It wont be long before someone with vision like Steve, usurps the borefest that currently works for apple

[@repairtech9717]

Highly doubt it, Apple is making huge waves with its Apple silicon processors with more profits and credibility than ever

[@RetroBreak]

For some reason, Mac paint still seems really impressive today!

[@jamontoast1414]

its got so many of the tools still used in photoshop today. truly amazing

[@bierundkippen720]

@@jamontoast1414 Come down. It's just the obvious tools.

[@devoidbmx1]

Yes the thing that impressed me is how fast it is and intuitive and simple.

[@bierundkippen720]

@@devoidbmx1 LoooL. It's as intuitive as MacOS: not at all.

[@bierundkippen720]

@Jdrocco You have other stuff on your hands, bro.

[@johnpenner5182]

one of the more momentus moments in computer history. i will never forget how that lil box talked out of the bag! truly a pandora's box of magic! ✨

[@eiddi]

I have never seen this keynote before I so happy I found it , but I have seen the ad for the Macintosh, cool to see it in context.

[@erikmirzoyev1297]

I’m watching this on an iPhone. Steve would be proud of what his dream accomplished. Who else is using an iPhone watching their daddy lol

[@youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904]

I'm using a Google phone.

[@manishgowda7761]

Steve is no longer alive to see the success of apple

[@IceMaster-wj7ur]

@@manishgowda7761 Yes, sadly

[@manishgowda7761]

@@IceMaster-wj7ur 😭😭😭😭

[@somebodyontheinternet1127]

@@manishgowda7761 *”success” of apple

[@user-gf6mf7ku7c]

Гений маркетинга и компьютеринга! The genius of marketing and computing!

[@randbarrett8706]

Crazy that $2500 really was the ‘mainstream’ price point, that ish was so expensive

[@sandraferrington2159]

I could set heat and listen to him all day.

[@ajones747]

The gasps over MacPaint is amazing.

[@dr.buzzvonjellar8862]

The whole archetype is there. It’s beautifully realized.

[@djdarkside1983]

The best part of this is the casual interview with Woz at the end. What a contrast of men between Woz and Jobs.

[@trevorkobilo2480]

An Amazing Marketer! Well articulated proposition!

[@TieDef]

They loved MacPaint.

[@keirandcarlshow]

56:04 Stan Lee always has to make a cameo

[@aaronujah5883]

I thought I was the only one that noticed

[@gyratgoldenwing1637]

Those were some expensive buggers. I am amazed Apple even made it out of the 80's alive.

[@mtn9272]

They almost didn't.

[@144wychwood]

Fascinating to look back to 1984 and see just how far we’ve come. I was too hyped up for upcoming Super Bowl Probably first time I heard of Apple was because of that famous commercial which appeared during the game. It would be another decade before I saw an actual Mac in person. It had to be exciting time in the compter industry.

[@5metoo]

I had a crush on the hammer girl.

[@k1lkenny]

Holy hell, that MacPaint demo (its truly timeless, we still use the same basic functions today) - man try doing that without bitmap graphics and a mouse, the audience having been used to the command pompt and character based graphics seeing that was rightly impressed.

[@mgscheue]

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. He nailed the interface. It's pretty much the same one used by every graphics program since.

[@sumithrasumi6561]

He knows everything about the products he created

[@TulleyAndMe]

I wish they still did this

[@yeahlikewhatever]

Now that Apple is scanning user’s images, the roles are reversed. APPLE is Big Brother.

[@hgjhgjhgification]

There's even a front side camera

[@twobraincells4364]

So cool. Respect to all these people.

[@syedmisbah2378]

*5:32* Astonished to hear, Macintosh was really that expensive even in that era. *$2495*

[@ce-lz5jw]

If you didn't know the introduction was Jobs narrating in the same way as George Orwell's 1984 book. He thinks in everything.

[@eugeneeugene3313]

Simply great! Greatness in simplicity. I remember how excited was I, 15yo at the time, walking to the exhibition "Информатика вжизни США" just 10 min from my home in Leningrad...

[@pasttimer27]

I wonder what would happen if a time traveller walked up to jobs at that point and presented a 2020 Apple iPad Pro or a MacBook Pro?

[@stevejobs9091]

I would've been like "lol cool"

[@jnthepassenger347]

Remember when tech was exciting? Everything felt like it was the most amazing thing in the world, and it was easy to watch the progress of the world just by the things that we had. Nowadays the only way you can figure out how far ahead we are is looking at spec-sheets and other crap. It’s never just… better. I think that it started around the time that Jobs passed away. This man had a way with his marketing, and when he passed he took a lot of it with him, as well as a lot of the magic of computing.

[@clowncarqingdao]

Thank you. This was odly exciting.

[@lavacharam1346]

Thanks a lot for this wonderful video

[@MrDeanGr]

Imagine go back in time with a USB 3.0 1.TB in your hands in this meeting and show it to him

[@kefrensmegademo]

Jobs was just a marketing guy, not a visionary! That was Wozniak. Long live Wozniak !

[@dgodiex]

1:06:49

[@davyroger3773]

Lol the cult of Wozniak

[@dante_unoxx]

i´m watchin this on my MacBook, Steve Jobs was a such brilliant mind

[@mrswinterfrost]

Love this! Thank you Bassman \m/

[@Oh-VerDrive]

Honestly this is remarkable

[@s3340985]

29:41 - this mac paint presentation is amazing! People are apllauding to tools that we are so used to today.

[@techcube7291]

35:11 I swear that my PC running Windows 10 2021 still chooses the ball and the white around it😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@HIDlarissaTERRY]

I am here! He’s great!!!!

[@tnterror8085]

So exited to try it out