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Keynote snags are no Gates monopoly
Apple CEO Steve Jobs certainly handled it better than Bill Gates did last Wednesday at CES, but the Apple executive too ran into a minor snag during his keynote this morning at MacWorld in San Francisco.
During a demonstration of the Spotlight desktop search technology that will be part of the new version of the OS X Tiger operating system, Jobs' system stalled, the screen freezing while displaying a seemingly random picture. Searchlight promises to create a vast, easy to search index of all the information on a user's computer.
"I seem to have a little bug here…," Jobs said while he desperately tried to click away a picture that had made the system freeze up. "Well, that's why we have back-up systems."
His remarks were met by cheers and applause from the audience. Having a backup system to make sure he can continue with the presentation without any embarrassing silences certainly makes a lot of sense. But the entire situation also goes to show how far the devotion of his loyal followers goes. When Bill Gates was faced with demo storms last week at CES in Las Vegas, the room fell silent. Most Apple users would die for Jobs.
January 12, 2005 at 12:15 AM | Permalink
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It sure was a first for me to see! Easy to forgive, though, since he was demoing not-yet-released software. It appeared to be the Mail slideshow that popped up, and Mail sure doesn't stack up in the same class as other Apple applications. Not sure why.
Posted-by: coolfactor | 12 Jan 2005 16:01:15
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