Yesterday, at D8 conference Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal interviewed Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. The interview lasted for more than one and half hour in which Steve talked about origin of the first iPhone, Adobe Flash, restrictions on analytics, Television, Gizmodo controversy, Google and AT&T. Some of the highlights of his interview along with videos are as follows.

iPhone Origin: While talking about iPad and iPhone, Steve revealed that it all began with the tablet. He said, “I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on with your fingers. I asked our people about it. And six months later, they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys. He got [rubber band] scrolling working and some other things, and I thought, ‘my God, we can build a phone with this!’”

AT&T’s Service: When it came to poor AT&T service, Steve said, “Remember, they deal with way more data traffic than anyone else. And they’re having trouble. But they have the fastest 3G network and they’re improving. I wish they were improving faster…. I’m convinced that any other network, had you put the iPhone on it, would have had the same problems.”

Adobe Flash: For Flash, Steve simply stated “We don’t think Flash makes a great product, so we’re leaving it out. Instead, we’re going to focus on technologies that are in ascendancy. If we succeed, people will buy them and if we don’t they won’t…. And, so far, I have to say, people seem to be liking the iPad.”

On Gizmodo Controversy: Steve said the “story is extraordinary it’s got theft, buying stolen property, extortion and there is sex in there somewhere. So somebody should make a movie out of this.”

Relationship with Google: Steve was straightforward about relationship with Google. He said, “Well, they’re competing with us. We didn’t go into search. They decided to compete with us and got more and more serious.” He also added, “Just because we are competing with somebody doesn’t mean we have to be rude.”