Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave to show off Apple Inc's latest innovations
Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave to show off Apple Inc's latest innovations and sustain the hope that he eventually will return to dream up more ways to reshape technology.
The highlight, as usual, came at the end of Jobs' presentation. He was onstage for less than 30 minutes during a nearly two-hour event that primarily featured his subordinates.
Ever the showman, the Apple CEO announced that the company had struck licencing agreements with all the major recording labels on a new music synching system.
It will allow people to put all the songs they have ever bought from the company's iTunes store on up to 10 devices at no additional charge. Apple is offering to do the same thing with all books and applications previously purchased through its online stores.
All future iTunes purchases also will be automatically sent to all the devices, too. None of the transfers will require devices to be plugged into a single computer. It will automatically happen over wireless connections.
"Keeping all those devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said.
Jobs' address marked his first appearance onstage since the launch of the iPad2 three months ago in March.
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