Live demos are especially hard when you're selling snake oil.

Ironically the original snake oil salesman's pitch involved slitting open a live rattlesnake and boiling it in front of a crowd.

	▲	franktankbank a day ago \| parent [-]
		Jesus dude

Yeah. Everyone wants to be like Steve but forgets that he usually had something amazing to show off.

Didn't Steve flip through 3 iPhones and hardcode the network UI to look like they had good signal?

	▲	nwallin 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		One of the demos was printing a thing out, but the processor was hopelessly too slow to perform the actual print job. So they hand unrolled all the code to get it down from something like a 30 minute print job to a 30 second print job. I think at this point it should be expected that every publicly facing demo (and most internal ones) are staged.

scuff3d 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

He faked shit all the time. He just faked it well and actually delivered later.

	▲	whatevaa 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Every demo of not yet launched product will have something faked.