[arionmiles]

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.

[krackers]

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

[tomwheeler]

I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.

[philistine]

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

[nunez]

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.

[ksec]

It is not simply just born like that. Even though he was extremely talented.

Steve practice his speech and keynote way more than any others. Once you have talent + hardwork it is hard to replicate. But even taking out the talent itself, none of the keynote are prepped to the details of what Steve would do.

In Steve's view. They probably don't give a damn about product marketing.

[peyton]

He had a point of view. “I discovered Gemini could help me with xyz” is too passive.

[dbbk]

Panos Panay too, I would never use a Surface laptop but boy did he sell it to me

[thewebguyd]

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."

[weikju]

> Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was

"What is the MacBook Air? In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook". [1] Then goes about listing product weight and dimensions of competitors. Granted he then visually compared the thinness, but still listed numbers.

THEN he mentioned the envelope and pulled it out... Then more specs (in the Apple style like it looks good, has a multi-touch trackpad, etc, followed by actual HDD/SDD size, and CPU spec available).

Masterfully done and well-presented regardless!

AND the product was right then and there and he could demo it and use it live

[1] https://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M?si=jRquaJCUw4Gng7GJ&t=35

[dbbk]

There was genuinely a moment in this presentation when I get kept saying how it was incredible that "Gemini put together a todo list for me"

[itsafarqueue]

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.

[throwa356262]

Google IO is for developers not consumers

[arionmiles]

sure.. WWDC also has "Developers Conference" in its name.