Filed under: Macworld, Video, Odds and ends, Steve Jobs
Found Footage: Steve Jobs' Macworld bloopers
In a move that I'm sure is just begging for the wrath of
Jobs, someone has put together a well-crafted
blooper video that looks at the best quirks, mistakes and glitches of Steve Jobs' Macworld keynotes. The video is
hosted at YouTube
and we're linking to it here, so you should be able to click on the image above and play it right here in TUAW (or your
RSS reader) as long as Flash is enabled.
I have to agree with the post at FreeMacBlog: it's pretty tough to watch this and not squirm at least a little, especially during my personal favorite: the 2005 keynote when I believe it was Sony's CEO who painfully stumbled and blundered through a speech about... well I don't even remember what it was about anymore.
This video is a nice reminder of those unfortunate (yet darn funny) blooper moments of Macworld keynotes that we all so easily forget once we open our new [insert Apple product here]. Check out FreeMacBlog's post where I found this, or head over to YouTube where the video lives - at least for now.
I have to agree with the post at FreeMacBlog: it's pretty tough to watch this and not squirm at least a little, especially during my personal favorite: the 2005 keynote when I believe it was Sony's CEO who painfully stumbled and blundered through a speech about... well I don't even remember what it was about anymore.
This video is a nice reminder of those unfortunate (yet darn funny) blooper moments of Macworld keynotes that we all so easily forget once we open our new [insert Apple product here]. Check out FreeMacBlog's post where I found this, or head over to YouTube where the video lives - at least for now.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
matthew said 9:21AM on 2-24-2006
SJ is the Barry Sanders of presentations, but even Barry slipped up occasionally.
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drebes said 9:49AM on 2-24-2006
Today is Steve Job's birthday. How about some compliments instead? :)
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Nick Day said 9:52AM on 2-24-2006
"And massive branch prediction logic... I don't know what that does, predicts branches!?" lol :)
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Super Weiss said 10:01AM on 2-24-2006
This is probably exactly what they hoped to avoid by shutting down the Keynote Archives. I say, serves them right!
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william said 10:06AM on 2-24-2006
Very funny :)
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Ric said 10:24AM on 2-24-2006
Waaaaaaay funny, especially the memorable digital camera moment...that was THA bomb..! (any way to donwload the movie?)
What about some Bill Gates's special moments as well?? I am sure they would comprise a much longer movie..! ;)
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Steve said 10:31AM on 2-24-2006
haha.... Entertaining, but still miles apart from Uncle Bill, and his bloopers!
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Beanie said 10:52AM on 2-24-2006
Man, I always squirm when I see him throw that camera at that poor guy. Someone got Steved that day, actually, probably all of those days someone got Steved.
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NewSwede said 11:06AM on 2-24-2006
How about any time that woman from Micro$oft gets on stage & tries to talk about the relationship between the two companies. What a blabbering, blundering fool!
I honestly don't know
a) Why Bill & Steve let her out of the office.
b) Why Apple has ever asked her back.
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Edsel said 12:26PM on 2-24-2006
Happy BDay Mr. Jobs.
http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2-5517693.html?pref=yes
^Bill Gates 2005 CES blooper
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Eric said 12:39PM on 2-24-2006
Some of those - the "branch prediction logic" or the kerberos, or the junk mail filter, were not bloopers. I would bet that they were very intentional - in fact he probably rehearsed them. Having done many presentations, and worked for an advisor who may actually surpass Steve in his attention to detail and preparation for presentations, those had the ring of intentional humor.
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Benson Leung said 2:36PM on 2-24-2006
Wow! Some of these i've never seen before... like the shot of Steve with the Tiger disc going "it's it's it's it's...."
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Wouter said 4:02PM on 2-24-2006
I would say, even in making mistakes he's still good.
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macboy said 5:13PM on 2-24-2006
I cracked up in that part when the Sony President said your products uhh uhh some of em that you introduced today at bulky lol
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mingistech said 11:37AM on 2-25-2006
As a Mac fan... that was just painful to watch.
I've seen most of those blunders over the years.. but all together it makes Apple looks like a total boob.... haha.
Just wait till this is posted on a M$ fanboy page like geek.com ... now that will be painfull.
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gko said 9:39PM on 2-26-2006
I've only seen a few keynotes, but almost all segments presented by non-Apple people tend to be uncomfortable to watch. It's like high school english class all over again. Either a stammer-fest, or Conan O'Brien season 1 akwardness.
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Macintologist said 4:01AM on 2-27-2006
The are two reasons why I can't make a Billy Gates blooper montage. It was incredibly painless to collect all the old Apple keynote footage. The Apple online community is incredibly vibrant and enough people actually collect this stuff which makes it easy to pass around and get into my hands. There are perhaps a few dozen M$ fanboys online and that's it. I highly doubt anybody has a 10 gig folder of M$ keynotes.
2nd) All the M$ archived materials are probably in WMA or Real formats. No thanks, but I don't deal with those formats, and iMovie can't import them. Flip4Mac isn't around for Intel yet, and the Real libraries are half assed and don't work right.
My biggest fear is like what mingistech said, that some Apple basher will get a hold of this and make it one more reason to bash Apple. Well I made this video for the Mac community to enjoy, and not for the Apple haters. Thanks for all your compliments! I enjoyed making it as much as you enjoy watching it.
-Macintologist
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