Before speaking at the Silicon Valley 4.0 conference, Sculley was interviewed by CNET in October 2003, where he explained the mistakes he made at Apple concerning the Apple Newton and HyperCard. Sculley had cancelled Apple's first hand-held mobile tablet PenMac led by Paul Mercer with applications by Samir Arora and instead signed an agreement to work with Sharp Electronics on the Newton technology. Also in 2003, Sculley was interviewed by the BBC for the television documentary "The World's Most Powerful" episode "Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates", discussing his time at Apple during the 1980s as CEO. In 2010, he was interviewed for "Cult of Mac" on the topics of Steve Jobs and design.