"The thinking goes, why let bad Internet or cellphone connections ruin an otherwise good presentation? But Jobs insisted on live presentations. It was one of the things that made them so captivating. Part of his legend was that noticeable product-demo glitches almost never happened."
What is interesting is that product-demo glitches happened all the time. We went to one presentation in which Steve had to ask for people not to use the Internet because they had not enough bandwidth.
But mistakes were so "naturally handled" that people just did not care.
I think Edison said, you will not be remembered by your mistakes, but from your successes.
What is interesting is that product-demo glitches happened all the time. We went to one presentation in which Steve had to ask for people not to use the Internet because they had not enough bandwidth.
But mistakes were so "naturally handled" that people just did not care.
I think Edison said, you will not be remembered by your mistakes, but from your successes.