Steve Jobs 1997 WWDC fireside chat

This is a great look back at Steve, freshly returned to Apple. This video is from June of 1997, just a few months after Apple’s purchase of NeXT was finalized.

Steve is sitting on stage, taking questions from the audience of developers.

The whole thing is great but, if your time is short, jump to 4:30, where the questions start. The first one, “What about OpenDoc?”, is a perfect opener. OpenDoc was a much ballyhooed architecture that Apple sold hard. When Steve came back, well, just watch the video.