On: Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Camp...

[aresant]

Only Steve could glue me to the screen for 20 mins to watch a city council meeting.

It's like listening to PT Barnum read the J Peterman catalog.

[phillco → aresant]

I laughed when he projected the estimated percent increase in trees. I hope this filters into future presentations. "We're here to announce the iPhone 5, but first...we've been really, really happy with the growth of our tree population here at Apple."

[sjwright → phillco]

Lots of apricot trees... perhaps the odd McIntosh Apple? [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_%28apple%29

[latch → sjwright]

I grew up in Ontario, where McIntosh are king (and deliciously awesome!). I was surprised, when I moved, that a lot of people didn't know that the MacIntosh computer was actually named after this apple (trademark, or something, prevented them from using "McIntosh")

[officemonkey → latch]

It was probably the trademark for McIntosh amplifiers (http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/us/Pages/Home.aspx).

[rbanffy → latch]

"Macintosh" was also chosen because it's acronym-proof

[tcdent → rbanffy]

Still doesn't stop people from writing MAC instead of Mac; its an abbreviation, not an acronym!

[rbanffy → tcdent]

Things like these help separate the clueless from those you should pay attention to. It's a Good Thing.

[numbsafari → latch]

Also, McDonald's like to sue people for using Mc-, kinda like Apple likes to sue people for using i-.

[_zhqs → aresant]

The power of leading your presentation with a story.

[mashmac2 → _zhqs]

Exactly. I recommend reading Resonate by Nancy Duarte (from the company that did Al Gore's slides).