Say what you will about Apple or Jobs, but goddamn could the man give a keynote
when i was growing up i genuinely wanted to be a silicon valley programmer guy (in a good way i mean i was like 15); used to look forward to the keynotes like a playoff game
Yeah, Craig has his moments. Thing is, Steve could be cool and a bit alluring. Craig has a habit of taking it a bit too far into “silly,” but I don’t mind.
Ironically, there was a “gold path” for jobs to follow on the iPhone keynote as the software was extraordinarily buggy, and they outlined a path they were pretty sure was fine
Even the pre-iPhone ones were pretty crazy. He'd make you want to go out and buy the thing even if you didn't need it. I distinctively remember going and "finding" a beta of OSX before it was publicly released after seeing one of his first key notes back (I don't exactly remember why I was there, but I was). ["...It's Liquid- makes you want to lick it..."]
I think he had a fundamental awareness of how regular people needed to interact with the world around them, and he kind of kept upending tables at Apple until their tech fit right in somewhere. I think he had such a stage presence not only from talent, but because he seemed to genuinely see something in the product he believed in, and had all the reasons why.
No. It's a commodity appliance, not a religion or lifestyle. We don't need a priest-like person evangelizing his flock to buy the latest plastic fantastic toy. Go touch grass.