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I bet they rehearsed a dozen times and never failed as bad live. Got to give them props for keeping the live demos. Apple has neutered its demos so much it's no

I bet they rehearsed a dozen times and never failed as bad live. Got to give them props for keeping the live demos. Apple has neutered its demos so much it's now basically 2 hr long commercials.

donkyrf 1y ago
The new Apple presentations are much more information dense, and tailored to the main (online) audience. They’re clearly better.
- sampton 1y ago
  More dense but less trust worthy. I don't think they would have pushed apple intelligence the way they did if there was a live demo.
  - crooked-v 1y ago
    Live Apple demos were always held together with duct tape in the first place. That first "live" iPhone demo had a memorized sequence that Jobs needed to use to keep the whole phone OS from hard crashing.
    - suriya-ganesh 1y ago
      Even with that, Live demos are incredibly more better than hour long demos.
      - kridsdale3 1y ago
        They also force the developers to make it work, under threat of being fired, and in the ire of Steve Jobs case, being yeeted in to the sun along with their ancestors and descendents.
    - ajcp 1y ago
      During that first iPhone demo they also had a portable cell tower (cell on wheels) just off-stage to mimic a better signal strength than it was capable of. NYTimes write-up on the whole thing is worth the read [0]. 0.https://web.archive.org/web/20250310045704/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250310045704/https://www.nytim...
      - deadbabe 1y ago
        There was one demo where Steve Jobs told everyone to turn off their WiFi.
        zuhsetaqi 1y ago
        It was the demo of FaveTime with the iPhone 4 IIRC
      - Barbing 1y ago
        That _was_ worth it indeed--thanks :)
- jeffgreco 1y ago
  They are boring infomercials now. The live audience used to keep it from feeling too prepackaged.
  - arduanika 1y ago
    You gotta keep your infomercials engaging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ Microsoft really nailed the genre. (Although I learned just now while looking up the link that this one was an internal parody, never aired.)
- asadm 1y ago
  and so boring. I would take Jobs presenting a live demo than any of this heavily-produced stuff.

I bet they rehearsed a dozen times and never failed as bad live. Got to give them props for keeping the live demos. Apple has neutered its demos so much it's now basically 2 hr long commercials.

donkyrf 1y ago

The new Apple presentations are much more information dense, and tailored to the main (online) audience. They’re clearly better.

sampton 1y ago
More dense but less trust worthy. I don't think they would have pushed apple intelligence the way they did if there was a live demo.
- crooked-v 1y ago
  Live Apple demos were always held together with duct tape in the first place. That first "live" iPhone demo had a memorized sequence that Jobs needed to use to keep the whole phone OS from hard crashing.
  - suriya-ganesh 1y ago
    Even with that, Live demos are incredibly more better than hour long demos.
    - kridsdale3 1y ago
      They also force the developers to make it work, under threat of being fired, and in the ire of Steve Jobs case, being yeeted in to the sun along with their ancestors and descendents.
  - ajcp 1y ago
    During that first iPhone demo they also had a portable cell tower (cell on wheels) just off-stage to mimic a better signal strength than it was capable of. NYTimes write-up on the whole thing is worth the read [0]. 0.https://web.archive.org/web/20250310045704/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250310045704/https://www.nytim...
    - deadbabe 1y ago
      There was one demo where Steve Jobs told everyone to turn off their WiFi.
      - zuhsetaqi 1y ago
        It was the demo of FaveTime with the iPhone 4 IIRC
    - Barbing 1y ago
      That _was_ worth it indeed--thanks :)
jeffgreco 1y ago
They are boring infomercials now. The live audience used to keep it from feeling too prepackaged.
- arduanika 1y ago
  You gotta keep your infomercials engaging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ Microsoft really nailed the genre. (Although I learned just now while looking up the link that this one was an internal parody, never aired.)
asadm 1y ago
and so boring. I would take Jobs presenting a live demo than any of this heavily-produced stuff.