During the bustle of MacWorld 2006 there were reports coming form any and every source attending, and even some not attending the event. One report seems to have slipped through however; the NewsWeek MSNBC exclusive interview with Steve Jobs. Steve had some interesting answers to questions which his staff were not obliged to retort on the show floor. For example, when asked about the similarities between the PowerBook and the new MacBook Pro, Steve responded:

The form factors [the physical design] are perfect, we don’t know how to make them any better. And now we’ve got Intel processors in them so obviously they run a lot faster.

When questioned about Apple Stores reaching saturation point (following a first billion dollar quarter at the end of 2005) Steve replied:

We tend to build 30 to 40 stores a year. We know we can control the quality that way, both in terms of the real estate selection and in terms of the build-outs. We have many years to go at that rate.

The most interesting answer however, one which we have all been looking for Apple to release seemed to just slip out of Steves mouth before he realized what he was saying:

[The MacBook Pros battery life is] About the same—this with a dual processor! Each processor is as fast as a G5, and the battery life will be the same as [the previous PowerBook’s] G4.

Some interesting quotes and more over, the final question of this interesting if short lived interview refers back to a theory I have made public many times, so perhaps I wasn’t so wrong after-all.

[Note: I publicly announced that my estimate for iPod sales, Q4 2005, was 12-14 million. So there you go.]