I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours any more.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Get a call, again, just really great call management features, just scroll through contacts with your finger. All the information at your fingertips here. Favorites, last century, visual voice mail. Calendar, SMS texting, incredible photo app, the ability to just take any picture and make it your wallpaper. It's pretty unbelievable, and I think when you have a chance to get your hand on it, you'll agree, we have reinvented the phone. OK.
And if I want to pick somebody, let's say I want to pick the Beatles, I just tap them, and here's the Beatles songs with their albums right here. If I want to play Sgt. Pepper's I just hit Sgt. Pepper's right there, and "A Little Help From My Friends." Look at this gorgeous album artwork here. Of course, I've got a volume control. Now, I've got a little button up in the corner right here, you can see in the upper right-hand corner, I can hit that and flip the album art around. There's all the other songs back here. And I can play "Lovely Rita" if I want to. Flip back around. Very simple. Right, I can set some stars back here just by setting the arrows. That's a five star album. Isn't that cool? Yeah, it's pretty nice.
You know, I was showing this to somebody -- I was giving a demo to somebody a while ago, who had never seen this before, inside Apple. And I finished the demo, and I said what do you think. They told me this, they said, You had me at scrolling. So, the iPhone with the most amazing iPod ever. You can now touch your music.