The presentation, mostly a Q&A session really, was hosted by a Jobs newly installed as Apple's interim CEO in the place of Gil Amelio. The tone of the event was an interesting one. Jobs had the job of convincing the developers in the Apple ecosystem that this new regime would bring a return to form and that the software technologies of NeXT, an essentially failed hardware company, were the key to this. The agent (single console) model of computing was dying and Jobs knew it. He knew that convincing developers to investigate and integrate network connected software was going to be key.