Since the close of the eighth D: All Things Digital conference, we’ve been inundated with requests for a downloadable version of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s opening night session with co-hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Given their number, we’ve decided to oblige. The full Jobs session is now available on iTunes as both a video and audio podcast.

Here’s the entirety of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ D8 interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. Google, Flash, iPad and everything else, for more than 90 minutes.

Here’s a fun alternative history exercise: What would have happened if AOL-Time Warner had bought Apple and put Steve Jobs in charge of the giant mess?

Apple finds the recent spate of suicides at its Chinese manufacturing partner Foxconn “very troubling.” So said Apple CEO Steve Jobs last night during his opening session interview at D8, adding that the company is “all over” the issue. Foxconn, said Jobs, is “not a sweatshop.” Video of Jobs’s remarks after the jump.

Sometimes it makes sense to ask a simple, direct question. Like this one, from a D8 attendee to Apple CEO Steve Jobs: When can we start making phone calls with our iPhones?

Three years ago at D5, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described Apple TV as a hobby. And since then, the company has continued to describe the digital media receiver that way. Indeed, COO Tim Cook referred to it that way at a Goldman Sachs conference this past February. Today Jobs told us why: Apple has no interest in a market that precludes it from rolling out a viable go-to-market strategy.

We’ve heard Gizmodo’s version of the 4G iPhone saga. And we’ve heard the San Mateo County Sheriff’s telling of the tale. Here’s Steve Jobs’s take.

Does Steve Jobs really want to shut out other ad networks from the iPhone and the iPad? No, says the Apple CEO. But he is very intent on locking out third-party analytics firms.

Apple and Google used to work together. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat on Apple’s board. Now they’re locked in a fierce battle. What happened? “They decided to compete with us and got more and more serious,” Steve Jobs says.

Apple’s iPad may have followed the iPhone to market, but it preceded the smartphone conceptually. During a Tuesday evening interview at D8, CEO Steve Jobs said the idea for the iPhone was born of a very early tablet prototype that would years later become the iPad.

Steve Jobs insists that he isn’t out to crush Adobe. But at the opening session of the D8 conference, the Apple CEO explained at length why he’s done with Adobe’s Flash: It’s a technology that’s outlived its usefulness, much like floppy disks and serial ports.

Steve Jobs kicked off the D8 conference on Tuesday evening. Here are the session photos from our conference photographer Asa Mathat.

Will Apple ditch AT&T for Verizon or another carrier? Steve Jobs wouldn’t address that directly tonight at D8. But he did say that AT&T’s well-documented trouble handling calls made with his iPhone should improve soon. How soon? “By the end of the summer.”

Here’s the pitch Steve Jobs is making to media companies: Cut your prices, and I’ll help you move a lot of product.

Speaking at the D8 conference, the Apple CEO said he wants to help save journalism because “I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers myself. I think we need editorial more than ever.” Ahem. Regardless, “What we have to do is figure out a way to get people to start paying for this hard-earned content.” Okay. So how to do that? “Price it aggressively, and go for volume.”

Will Apple’s rivalry with Google lead to the search company disappearing from iPhones and iPads?

Nope, says CEO Steve Jobs, though asked if he’ll feature a rival search offering–say from Microsoft–he demurs.

One search engine Apple won’t be featuring, Jobs says, is its own. That’s because the company is not getting into search, despite speculation that it would: “It’s not something we know about. It’s not something we care deeply about,” he says at the D8 conference.

Last year, for the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, we wrote an essay titled “Welcome to Web 3.0″ in which we made a prediction that raised some hackles in the blogosphere. “So what’s the seminal development that’s ushering in the era of Web 3.0? It’s the real arrival, after years of false predictions, of the thin client, running clean, simple software against cloud-based data and services,” we wrote, specifically referencing the growing popularity of Apple’s iPhone as the harbinger of this important trend.