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Apple Keynote Bloopers (video)
video.google.com — Like all computers, Macs do have their own problems. Even the biggest mac fanatic (I'm a pretty big one) have to admit, while they are pretty sweet, their not PERFECT. Watch as Steve fumes and heads roll. How many jobs do you think these flubbs cost?
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- da5idblacksun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+92That's hilarious. "It's pretty awesome when it works."
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33just need to speed it up and add some Benny Hill music.
- JJP0223, on 10/12/2007, -40/+47No, they would have to speed up the Microsoft bloopers. That video would take days.
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@ da5idblacksun
Haha. Yeah that's one of my favourite lines. That background music is priceless too, but could have been improved, like chris (above) said..
Ah, as quoted by Bill Bailey, 'everyone loves it when things go to *****'.
Jimzip :D - Nearoschyth, on 10/12/2007, -18/+41@JJP0223
It's pretty desperate that you have to throw in a blow to Microsoft. Yeah, it has screw-ups--it looks like Macs (GASP) have them too. This video is about Mac mistakes, so why can't you talk about that? I think it's pathetic. - michaelkirk, on 10/12/2007, -27/+11I couldn't help but notice that Steve continuously had trouble with Internet Explorer, which is a MICROSOFT product. Or at least that looked like the big IE letter E throbber in the corner of one of those windows. "Is this refresh?"
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4Here comes the Apple haters. In for the kill! Having said that, as a fan of Apple iThink (see what I done there) it's pretty funny, and the music was nicely chosen.
- QuimZ, on 10/12/2007, -37/+18Get ready for the excuses...
- boozedrinker, on 10/12/2007, -39/+8Sorry Mr. Quimby no excuses - he's perfect. Its the retards behind the scenes.
- boozedrinker, on 10/12/2007, -34/+13And the wrthless 3rd party products and Internet Explorer for Mac....mostly all the problems were caused by 3rd party *****....
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -21/+6"Its the retards behind the scenes."
And.. that is not an excuse, how?
- diggthiscrap, on 10/12/2007, -22/+46And here come the excuses!!!
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28No excuses.
Everyone makes mistakes, that's why there are erasers on pencils!
Steve *is* human, you know. ;)
Jimzip :D - dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -42/+8Steve's a lying son-of-a-bitch that ripped Woz off and he's now trying to buy his soul back by making the iPod cheaper...
- chevyorange, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18And most of these are pre-release versions.
I'm a Mac guy, loved this vid! Makes me wish for a new Keynote! - scorpioz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4@jimzip
"No excuses.
Everyone makes mistakes, that's why there are erasers on pencils!
Steve *is* human, you know. ;)" /quote
lol its not about a human making a mistake, its about the computer/software not working correctly. - Mikecol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The computers/software were designed by humans.
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28No excuses.
- lukehudson, on 10/12/2007, -65/+5it was funny...but of course anything can be made to look funny when you only choose selective clips to highlight your point
- jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -21/+27That comment was stupid on so many levels.
- dave1021, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20Come for the excuses - stay for the "possibly inaccurates"!
- mikesown, on 10/12/2007, -21/+35"their not perfect"? Come on, please use decent grammar.
- ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -13/+21and "Even the biggest mac fanatic **have** to admit..."
Go grammar! - egingras, on 10/12/2007, -27/+9I modded both of you up, just for the record.
- Primedeath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23People need to learn that just because it's not school, doesn't mean you have to be an idiot....
Lern2Spel.
Wud it b betur if al thngz r typd lyk ths? No u wud git angri @ stoopid peepl. . - lpse2000, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5I done modded y'all up two.
- ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -13/+21and "Even the biggest mac fanatic **have** to admit..."
- dstory, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Nice to know Steve actually has a few less than perfect moments during his presentations.
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3Actually those points were the most interesting.
- hotsoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"It scrolls like butter!"
- Mooinakan, on 10/12/2007, -11/+11It was a good watch, but nothing that doesn't happen at every other keynotes conference for every other operating systems designer (MS, RedHat etc.)
- Maniaca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+78He stays cool and funny even when he flubs things. Great stuff :)
Favourite line: "I don't know what it does....it predicts branches"- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32"Updated Kerberos and.. whatever that is.."
Gold..
Jimzip :D - lakawak, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3As dones anyone who has ever takne a public speaking course, and many who haven't. Staying cool is NOT something unique to Steve Jobs. Anyone in his position better ***** well stay cool in those situations.
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Gee, thanks for signing your post, Jimzip. Saved me the time of looking up two lines.
YOU'RE CLOGGING THE PIPES YOU TWIT.
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32"Updated Kerberos and.. whatever that is.."
- JonnyTrombone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11While they aren't all from one keynote (this seems to take place over several years), it's pretty damn funny.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3Wow.. everyone is predicting excuses.. and yet...... oh well.
I PREDICT EXCUSES ALSO.- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Have you had any yet?
Jimzip :D - skribble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7So far I've read two...
1. He was using IE as a browser, o of course it's not going to work.
2. He's using pre-release software.
#2 is at least valid
but just to get 'em all out of the way let's categorize them:
conspiracy:
- Bill Gates snuck in the night before and sabotaged it.
- Government spy satellites were flying over head and they tend to do strange things with electronics.
passing the buck:
- That's really (microsofts/IBM's/Sony's/Canon's/...) fault.
- Well it would have worked if the crowd hadn't been eating up all the bandwidth with their back channel chats, and posting live blog updates.
... ok I'll stop now... - SenatorPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2And there was echo in the room.
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Have you had any yet?
- L2006, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35It's hilarious when he gets so mad and like throws the camera at some guy.
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hope everyone is just digging this up because it's a joke... at least, I hope it's a joke.
- speel, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40Funny how when Steve messes up its all funny but when Bill screws up its like wow microsoft is gay.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -22/+6Because Microsoft is gay? :)
j/k - Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's all to do with the recovery I think. I haven't seen Bill screw up cause I haven't seen any MS keynotes, but Steve is a great public speaker even when his speeches haven't been rehearsed a hundred times, so he stays pretty cool when stuff goes to pot. Though I reckon he got pretty pissed during some of that..
Jimzip :D - keesj, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Arghh, meant to reply to speel. Stupid Digg comment system. Digg me up.
- keesj, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Damnit, commenting doesn't seem to work very well. Digg me up or down.
- keesj, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2It's called talent.
Edit:
*****, I now see I sorted the comments by "most diggs".. it messed everything up. - aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Anybody notice that when Bill's demos screw up, he looks like a deer in headlights? Bill Gates is too much of a nerd to recover gracefully. When that MCE demo at CES screwed up, the one with Conan O'Brian, I felt like I was watching a car wreak. It was so painful to watch.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -22/+6Because Microsoft is gay? :)
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6In what kind of a nazi company do you work, poster, if you can lose a job because of this? :)
- imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1"i guess were not lucky today" lol
- L2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Oh it doesn't work because the battery threw out when I threw it! Great!"
- satishev, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Interesting that this has been posted around 10 times previously(as a search would prove). And I remember finding it through digg a week ago as well.
No digg. - diggdon, on 10/12/2007, -17/+6One year ago this month I finally bought a Mac (it was a mini) and soon after an iMac. Prior to that I have been exclusively Windows/DOS. I'm still in the learning curve but I want to say that my experience, much like this video indicates, is that Mac OS X is not particularly stable. I run it side by side with a Windows box and I use them equally, and I use them a lot. As far as I'm concerned they are equally unstable, crashing weekly. In fact, the iMac had the best crash of them all in that I had to zeroize the firmware once before the machine could even power back up, which is something I've *never* had to do with any Windows machine I've ever owned. (I have no third party software on my Macs, apart from Firefox, but I have some third party software on my Windows PC.)
- haydesigner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"zeroize the firmware" ???
Methinks you either do not know what you are talking about, or you are a danger to all computers everywhere, regardless of OS.
- haydesigner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"zeroize the firmware" ???
- comradeTJH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24"So.. what is it? .. I have no idea but it works!" :-D
- speel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2thats a classic
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Great video. Yep, even Apple makes mistakes.
- phpfreak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23Would you people learn some English? It's "...they're not perfect." not "their not perfect."
- TylerLavite, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1@ phpfreak
no one ***** cares about grammer dude! its not school, so stop correcting every one - Primedeath, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Just because it's not school, doesn't mean you have to be an idiot....
Lern2Spel.
Wud it b betur if al thngz r typd lyk ths? No u wud git angri @ stoopid peepl. .
So STFU. - xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Tyler
grammAr, not grammEr. :P - xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3lern2spel in case you've been living under a rock for a few years:
http://splintax.com/lern2spel.html - thenorwegian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"no one ***** cares about grammer dude!"
haha. That one made me giggle. Try telling that to your next prospective employer then tell me how it goes.
- TylerLavite, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1@ phpfreak
- jonezy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2hahahah it's pretty awesome when it works seems to be the excuse of the day
- Kuth678, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16No excuses. I use a mac and I found it hilarious.
All computers have problems. Some more than others is all :) - thoth92, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Hilarious, but old. I believe this was on digg a while ago.
- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10At least when Macs don't work right, software doesn't work right or when Steve is talking about something he has no clue about -- he has no problem admitting it... That was a great clip. And the background music was Classic.
- lakawak, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3As does EVERY CEO. Not just Steve. But nice try. Just ASK him to let you swallow next time.
- pdonline, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I thought Steve Jobs handled himself pretty well when he made mistakes -- he kept the audience amused despite the mistakes which I think is something to respect.
- lakawak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Something anyone who has ever taken a Toastmasters class can do. It is certianly NOT something unexpected from a major company's CEO.
- aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Then why can't Bill Gates do it? Has he tried Toastmasters or is he too autistic?
- gr8one, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I wonder how many people got fired as a result of that camera thing..... Steve looked a little pissed.
- netwurkpunk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Why is this in the technology section? Ever heard of Videos > Comedy?
- TylerLavite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5o shut up and stop complaining...
this was a great video
Digg!
- TylerLavite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5o shut up and stop complaining...
- Leo55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Finally understand why pleasing steve at apple HQ is a big task.
He is like every OTHER user. - d0om, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2apple sucks.
- ratchet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That was great!! I do close to 300 live tech demos a year and there is nothing worse that having something fail or not work properly in front of a bunch of people. It's all about the cover up and/or making a joke about it all.
- babayada, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wonder how many people get fired over these things, as the poster of this asked. Steve Jobs is charismatic on stage, but working for him is probably a nightmare.
- lakawak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yup. When I first read that question, I was thinking "Obviously none." Bu then I realied it was Steve Jobs we were talking about, so probably people DID get fired.
- SanderSpies, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1While watching I also checked another funny video connected to it by Google:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8541567256668608369&q=bloopers - mobilehavoc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2They should play this right after a Mac switch ad...that would be classic.
- cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I think the video of the Sony guy was from when they were announced the price and launch allocation for the PS3
- P5ycHo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Stay on topic asswipe!
- OandA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Good video. I'm sure quite a few people had a stiff talking too.
- kris33, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5The browser that crashed the whole time was....
SUPRISE!!
Internet Explorer- dooraque, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It didn't crash :>
- kevine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It was funny, but if you want excuses, here are some...
1) Most of the errors were caused by 3rd party products...a camera that wouldn't turn on, IE not rendering, etc... Also a lot of what was being shown wasn't even public beta yet. The one in particular where he said, this is why we have backups was when he prefaced the demo with "this is what we're working on".
2) There were a lot of spoken bloopers that were intentional. He was addressing developers and instead of pretending to be able to explain details he didn't understand himself, he simply threw them out there and said, "whatever that is, I think it's good" or something to that effect. He actually does this a lot.
3) The Asian man on stage was from Sony. His appearance on stage was actually quite pathetic. I think it was a combination of stage fright and a language issue, but there may have been a back story to that appearance.- KittyEater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ahh... compatibility... The Macs one weakness.
- diggmeplease, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2This was funny when it was posted march. Its getting old now....
burried as a dupe... - RealityMonster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Like Steve says, "This is why we have backup systems."
One of my professors in University used to work for IBM. He said that they didn't make things 'idiot proof', they made them 'manager proof', since the manages would always do the dumbest things while on stage and demoing things, but would have to act like they invented and wrote the stuff themselves.
Steve Jobs puts on a good show because he's not really a technical guy anymore. He's got good ideas, and he knows about generalities. Make it fast, or make it easy to use, or make it blue, or whatever, that's the level that he's at. He doesn't need to know what branch prediction is, and neither do most people that buy the computers; that's a developer thing and they understand the language, even if he doesn't.
Steve Jobs being a personable, ordinary seeming guy in jeans and a sweater is exactly what endears people to him. - rjcarr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Not being an apologist here, but there really weren't that many apple problems. Steve made a couple comments about technical slides (not sure what it does, but it works!), Quake 3 wouldn't start (probably an id issue), the Sony guy didn't remember what he was supposed to say, and it looked like a problem with IE. Even the "bug" he found in the widget probably wasn't an apple produced widget. And the camera probably legitimately wouldn't turn on.
Come to think of it ... was there even a single apple hardware or software blooper in there?- mulletman13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The widget was Apple designed, and that was a problem. I had a dev version of Tiger when that launched, and the service that went along with the widget was not up at that time.
Also, while in iPhoto/Aperture (which is an Apple program), they had to switch to a backup system because it froze.
With that said I am a Mac user and my new 24" iMac should be here by Monday =)
- mulletman13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The widget was Apple designed, and that was a problem. I had a dev version of Tiger when that launched, and the service that went along with the widget was not up at that time.
- JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I don't use macs a lot, but when I do, this video is about what my experience is like.
- jonasf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You mean that you're speechless because you can't turn your camera on?
- aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was a funny "bloopers" video. I remember that iPhoto/Tiger lockup. The rest, as others said were problems with third-party products.
- ondrasoukup, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is really really old video. Just dunno why the YouTube version makes it to Digg and the thing that's laying on Google Video for over half a year is unmentioned...
Sad :( - followme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ha I enjoyed that.
Anyone else notice how Steve Jobs wears the same thing in every presentation?- jstone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That's because his clothes are surgically implanted into his body.
- AnthonyJr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm an Apple fanatic & I still loved this. Nice post.
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would i have liked to seen the addition of the iphoto crash at the 2006 WWDC, since that was priceless, and it's recent.
- marioluigi123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I loved how Steve Jobs was just like "it has this technology that I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it works well." That just seems to go along with the Mac ideal. I mean, in all truthness, how many of you know how your car really works? Like completely? I'm sure many of you do, but most products show that you don't have to understand it to use it.
Actually, this reminds me of this movie, TV show, book, or something that I saw . It wasn't very good, but it did make a good point. Basically the world had been destoryed and only X amount of humans were still around. They had a lot of technology and blueprints (and writings) of said technology at their disposal, but a lot of it was either broken or they ONLY had the blueprints. Turns out that most people don't know what drives most technological products. - aaryn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1LOL did he toss that camera while it was still plugged in? I'm glad I wasn't there for that one... awkward!
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