Steve Jobs Interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher

Just watched All Things Digital D8 interview with Steve Jobs where Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher is supposed to interview him. There where a lot of interesting stuff in there, but a complete lack of any tough follow up questions.

Walt Mossberg looked extremely uncomfortable. He was sugar-coating every question he asked Jobs, more or less over-explaining why he asked the questions. Instead of asking quick straight questions it often took minutes, at least it felt like it, before he let Jobs answer.

Kara Swisher was much more to the point, asking more direct questions. Unfortunately she didn't really get her chance that much.

A lot of topics, such as the Gizmodo iPhone prototype, Flash, Microsoft, Google and so on was talked about. They gave Jobs plenty of time to answer, or basically making speeches about how great Apple is.

There where follow up questions, but they all stopped short when it was time for the though ones. The part about Flash for example, Jobs was able to portray Apples side of the story very believable. He even said that he told Adobe that if they put together a player that is good enough they can come back to Apple with it.

If that was the case, then why did Apple change their rules about how apps for the iPhone has to be developed banning Adobe's generation of iPhone native code in CS5? Where was that question?

For us who actually been following that story, this feels like an after construction with the goal to make Apple look like the good guy that haven't done anything wrong.

The whole interview was clearly heavily scripted, where Apple had veto on what topics and questions was allowed.

Don't take me wrong. I admire what Jobs have accomplished and agree about a lot of what he is saying and his vision. For me though, it seems like his new found power position is getting a bit too big for him to handle correct.