Steve Jobs at D8: On Google, Microsoft, the Stolen iPhone, and What He Does All Day

Thrown by All Things D and hosted by the Wall Street Journal's head tech writer, Walt Mossberg, this year's D conference (the eighth, hence "D8") is the first since 2007 in which Steve Jobs has participated. Given the media attention, you'd think Jobs was the only one speaking, but he lived up to his billing with a forthright and interesting interview.

Jobs began by noting that while Apple surpassing Microsoft in market valuation is "surreal," "it doesn't really mean anything." He batted...