[macintologist]

Do you guys remember any particular moments where Steve Jobs was demoing something on a Mac during one of his keynotes and something didn't go right? His Mac crashed, froze, was slow, something he was using didn't function properly?

Any specific incidences?

[wdlove]

I remember things like that happening to Steve. He always handles them with grace.

[Kerrigan]

He wasnt so graceful during the camera incident.

[The Godfather]

Unreal Tournament crashing in an OSX demonstration, saying "It should look cool".

Digital camera not turning on, throwing it at an employee.

SJ is as cool as you and me.

[macintologist]

DO you guys know which year those were?

[Ganesha]

Steve: Looks like we have a bug here... Well that's why we have back up machines. (Steve flicks a switch, and the crowd goes wild) [MacWorld 2005, I think]

Steve: (Steve declares OS 9 dead, and then declares all developers should focus on OS 9 from here on out) [WWDC 2003 I think]

[ironknee]

Originally Posted by The Godfather

Digital camera not turning on, throwing it at an employee.

yep that was MWNY 2001(?) i was there...and the guy didn't catch it so steve broke it by throwing it

[hickey]

does anyone have video of this? I would love to see it. reminds me of Gates' mishap

[macintologist]

Keep em coming keep em coming! I'm gonna make a short video about this

[Judge_Fire]

Originally Posted by The Godfather

Unreal Tournament crashing in an OSX demonstration, saying "It should look cool".

I believe it was Quake III with Phil Schiller as the other player, in Jan 2000. IIRC, Steve had trouble creating an iCard, too.

J

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

I believe it was Quake III with Phil Schiller as the other player, in Jan 2000. IIRC, Steve had trouble creating an iCard, too.

J

Hmmm iTools, was that MWSF 2000?

[macintologist]

The Sony CEO ripped Steve a big one in MWSF 2005 when he told him his software was buggy (after TIger had crashed)

[Millennium]

Apple's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-chip G4 Cube?

If no one has made this site, I think I may have to. "Microsoft are evil Word bastards."

[starman]

"iMusic"

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by Millennium

Apple's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-chip G4 Cube?

If no one has made this site, I think I may have to. "Microsoft are evil Word bastards."

I dont get it

[kiskynet]

A giant wall of 50 iMacs failing to netboot on cue. A Tokyo keynote I think maybe around 2001-02. I think this was a classic where everything went wrong.

[ironknee]

^^ oh yeah japan..but maybe even 1999(?)

[volcano]

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

I believe it was Quake III with Phil Schiller as the other player, in Jan 2000. IIRC, Steve had trouble creating an iCard, too.

J

I have that video clip. I uploaded it to Rapidshare for you here

It wasn't really a "crash" per se, the game just froze when Schiller was attempting to load the game under Single Player mode.

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by volcano

I have that video clip. I uploaded it to Rapidshare for you here

It wasn't really a "crash" per se, the game just froze when Schiller was attempting to load the game under Single Player mode.

I created that clip :-)

Also available from my idisk

http://homepage.mac.com/lorna/.Movies/mac-crash.mov

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by macintologist

I dont get it

I think it's a joke on NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE.

[ApplCmptrDood]

at the special event in 10/05, he said when he picked up the iPod w/ video "let me get the iMac", and also in the same presentation, when he showed the specs for the iMac G5 w/ front row, it said 160 MB SATA, & 250 MB SATA. All I can think of.

[macintologist]

I can't find the instance where he said
"let me get the imac", do you have the minutes and seconds where it happens? What part of the presentation? Beginning, middle, end?

[ironknee]

when talking about airport in one kn(not sure which one) steve kept calling it airmac

[ApplCmptrDood]

i think it was when it was hotwired up? not sure...

[macintologist]

Hmm didn't find him saying anything there

[volcano]

Originally Posted by ApplCmptrDood

at the special event in 10/05, he said when he picked up the iPod w/ video "let me get the iMac", and also in the same presentation, when he showed the specs for the iMac G5 w/ front row, it said 160 MB SATA, & 250 MB SATA. All I can think of.

I don't remember that first part - but yes, you're right about the size of hard-drives for the iMacs w/ iSight. Quite a blunder to overlook.

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by ironknee

when talking about airport in one kn(not sure which one) steve kept calling it airmac

Probably because he was in Japan, where Airport is called AirMac.

AirMac Extreme Page (in Japanese).

[Gamoe]

This one is fresh: Jobs saying that he didn't see a video iPod in the future (or something to that effect).

Also, Jobs saying that CRTs are dead, as far as Apple was concerned, and yet they continued to sell the eMac to the public for quite a while later.

iTools, as has been mentioned, but specifically the "@mac.com" fiasco which convinced me not to fully trust in Apple's word again after I had ordered and received hundreds of little address labels with my "@mac.com" e-Mail address just to spread the word.

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by Gabriel Morales

This one is fresh: Jobs saying that he didn't see a video iPod in the future (or something to that effect).

Also, Jobs saying that CRTs are dead, as far as Apple was concerned, and yet they continued to sell the eMac to the public for quite a while later.

iTools, as has been mentioned, but specifically the "@mac.com" fiasco which convinced me not to fully trust in Apple's word again after I had ordered and received hundreds of little address labels with my "@mac.com" e-Mail address just to spread the word.

Yea but those aren't keynote bloopers.

[macintologist]

It's done!

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=286381

[rparke1]

oh man! that made my day, thank you posting the link. the music was a perfect choice too. great.. heh heh... job you did on it