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.

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krackers 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

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nunez 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	thewebguyd 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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."
	▲	peyton 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		He had a point of view. “I discovered Gemini could help me with xyz” is too passive.

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tomwheeler 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.

	▲	philistine 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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

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itsafarqueue 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.