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by steve-atx-7600 267 days ago
Yeah. Everyone wants to be like Steve but forgets that he usually had something amazing to show off.
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Didn't Steve flip through 3 iPhones and hardcode the network UI to look like they had good signal?
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.

He faked shit all the time. He just faked it well and actually delivered later.
Every demo of not yet launched product will have something faked.