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Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks lik

Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more. Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.

krackers 5mo ago
It helped that he actually used and believed in the products he was pitching.
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itsafarqueue 5mo ago
This is AI-maxing bleeding into everything. “Make me a great conference presentation”, and this is roughly what you get. AI-nshittification writ large. It’s sad to watch.
tomwheeler 5mo ago
I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.
- philistine 5mo ago
  I'm proud to announce this little blue box, with a single button on it. You press it and you get all the value you can get out of AI. Let's press it. Fart noise
nunez 5mo ago
People have definitely tried. Like Sinofsky when he announced the Surface Laptop several years ago. Or countless founders announcing their stuff. Steve was an absolute natural at the keynote and tech demo. Some people are just born like that, I think.
- junofan 5mo ago
  He had a point of view. “I discovered Gemini could help me with xyz” is too passive.
- thewebguyd 5mo ago
  Jobs understood sales in a way that no one else running these tech demos/keynotes seem to. Specifically "show, don't tell." Look at the MacBook Air launch. Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was, or list product dimensions on a spec sheet. He just pulled it out of an envelope. Likewise with the iPod. "1,000 songs in your pocket" not "It has a real hard drive with 5GB of storage."
  - weikju 5mo ago
    > Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was "What is the MacBook Air? In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook". [1] Then goes about listing product weight and dimensions of competitors. Granted he then visually compared the thinness, but still listed numbers. THEN he mentioned the envelope and pulled it out... Then more specs (in the Apple style like it looks good, has a multi-touch trackpad, etc, followed by actual HDD/SDD size, and CPU spec available). Masterfully done and well-presented regardless! AND the product was right then and there and he could demo it and use it live [1] https://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M?si=jRquaJCUw4Gng7GJ&t=35 https://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M?si=jRquaJCUw4Gng7GJ&t=35
- dbbk 5mo ago
  Panos Panay too, I would never use a Surface laptop but boy did he sell it to me
- ksec 5mo ago
  It is not simply just born like that. Even though he was extremely talented. Steve practice his speech and keynote way more than any others. Once you have talent + hardwork it is hard to replicate. But even taking out the talent itself, none of the keynote are prepped to the details of what Steve would do. In Steve's view. They probably don't give a damn about product marketing.
dbbk 5mo ago
There was genuinely a moment in this presentation when I get kept saying how it was incredible that "Gemini put together a todo list for me"
throwa356262 5mo ago
Google IO is for developers not consumers
- arionmiles 5mo ago
  sure.. WWDC also has "Developers Conference" in its name.

krackers 5mo ago

It helped that he actually used and believed in the products he was pitching.

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itsafarqueue 5mo ago

This is AI-maxing bleeding into everything. “Make me a great conference presentation”, and this is roughly what you get. AI-nshittification writ large. It’s sad to watch.

tomwheeler 5mo ago

I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.

philistine 5mo ago
I'm proud to announce this little blue box, with a single button on it. You press it and you get all the value you can get out of AI. Let's press it. Fart noise

nunez 5mo ago

People have definitely tried. Like Sinofsky when he announced the Surface Laptop several years ago. Or countless founders announcing their stuff. Steve was an absolute natural at the keynote and tech demo. Some people are just born like that, I think.

junofan 5mo ago
He had a point of view. “I discovered Gemini could help me with xyz” is too passive.
thewebguyd 5mo ago
Jobs understood sales in a way that no one else running these tech demos/keynotes seem to. Specifically "show, don't tell." Look at the MacBook Air launch. Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was, or list product dimensions on a spec sheet. He just pulled it out of an envelope. Likewise with the iPod. "1,000 songs in your pocket" not "It has a real hard drive with 5GB of storage."
- weikju 5mo ago
  > Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was "What is the MacBook Air? In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook". [1] Then goes about listing product weight and dimensions of competitors. Granted he then visually compared the thinness, but still listed numbers. THEN he mentioned the envelope and pulled it out... Then more specs (in the Apple style like it looks good, has a multi-touch trackpad, etc, followed by actual HDD/SDD size, and CPU spec available). Masterfully done and well-presented regardless! AND the product was right then and there and he could demo it and use it live [1] https://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M?si=jRquaJCUw4Gng7GJ&t=35 https://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M?si=jRquaJCUw4Gng7GJ&t=35
dbbk 5mo ago
Panos Panay too, I would never use a Surface laptop but boy did he sell it to me
ksec 5mo ago
It is not simply just born like that. Even though he was extremely talented. Steve practice his speech and keynote way more than any others. Once you have talent + hardwork it is hard to replicate. But even taking out the talent itself, none of the keynote are prepped to the details of what Steve would do. In Steve's view. They probably don't give a damn about product marketing.

dbbk 5mo ago

There was genuinely a moment in this presentation when I get kept saying how it was incredible that "Gemini put together a todo list for me"

throwa356262 5mo ago

Google IO is for developers not consumers

arionmiles 5mo ago
sure.. WWDC also has "Developers Conference" in its name.