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Steve Jobs had to follow a very narrow happy path in his first iPhone demo because the product was still very buggy. It still amazes me that the iPhone shipped
by macintux 5y ago
Steve Jobs had to follow a very narrow happy path in his first iPhone demo because the product was still very buggy. It still amazes me that the iPhone shipped so (relatively) soon after.
Failing to prepare for a business-critical demo was absolutely the CEO’s fault.
- mst 5y agoYeah, the demo malpractice was the thing that stood out to me as peak idiocy. I mean the general toxicity was awful, but even in a functioning company with sensible timescales and staffing that's 100% how to end up with a mid-demo disaster.
- i0nutzb 5y agoYou only had to hold it differently and you'd have no issues ^_^
- k12sosse 5y ago"Everybody gets a case." - Oprah Jobs, Humility Inc.
- deregulateMed 5y agoThere's nothing wrong with the keyboards.
- brokenmachine 5y agoYou're kidding, right? Google "macbook butterfly keyboard"
- smoldesu 5y agoIt's a shame you're getting dogpiled for echoing something Jobs himself suggested. Let it live in infamy, "you're holding it wrong"
- throwawayboise 5y agoI saw Jobs give a demo of Enterprise Objects (when he was at NeXT) at a trade show. He wasn't actually operating the keyboard and mouse, but he was on stage directing and explaining and suddenly the whole demo crashed with a kernel panic on the big screen. He handled it pretty smoothly, just said "oooops!" and waited for the reboot and then continued.
- ilrwbwrkhv 5y agoHe was also Steve Jobs. Not some random entrepreneur.
- jldugger 5y agoWhen Jobs demoed the original iPad, half of the NYT front page failed to load because it used Flash, and Flash was not supported (and in the end, never was).
- macintux 5y agoThat was clearly a deliberate choice on his part to emphasize Apple’s decision to not support Flash. He lingered over the blank content.