Steve Jobs, Interim Apple CEO, spoke at the Seybold Publishers Conference in San Francisco yesterday. Jobs talked about

Steve Jobs, Interim Apple CEO, spoke at the Seybold Publishers Conference in San Francisco yesterday. Jobs talked about Apple's overall support for the publishing channel in contrast to Bill Gate's infomercial which hawked Microsoft's product, Windows NT, on Tuesday. Jobs didn't specifically announce any new Apple products but did hint about those due out over the next 90 days and mentioned Apple's new directions expressed at Macworld-Boston in August. He said that he was sorry for the poor handling of the licensing issue but reiterated that the shift was essential to Apple's survival. Here are the takes by NEWS.COM and PC Week.

Victor Wong, CEO of POWERtools, personally told me last night that POWERtools remains an ardent supporter of Apple Computer and is on "great terms" with Apple. In addition, he responded yesterday to issues raised on Eric Belsley's Macintosh Resource Page regarding POWERtools' X-Factor PowerPC 750 (or G3 or Arthur) CPU computers. [Disclosure: POWERtools is a sponsor of Macs Only!].