The best Steve Jobs Macworld Expo moments

Will Steve Rest In Peace?

I am quite aware of the extent to which millions of people across the world are attached to Apple’s “i-gadget” family (almost like adaptors, connectors, or chargers), and can therefore sense the depths of their shock and sense of disconnect at the tragic passing of the "i-guru" Steven Paul Jobs. In fact, many of them received the news of Steve's death on one of his own inventions, which made their grief all the more poignant. Although I am an unrepentant and incorrigible “i-illiterate," I found myself inescapably drawn to Steve, back in the late 1980s, when I saw the first Mac of my life at an air-conditioned DTP bureau in a city in southern India. Mac’s GUI, icons (in place of nasty chains of command), colour graphics, mouse, feather-touch keyboard (“Life is smoother since we can touch instead of push”], sleek design and several other cool features struck me like some strange magic, and I can recall times when Mac was the apple of the computer world's “i,” and its SA (Sex Appeal) and price-tag were so high that snobs would carry Mac just to make a fashion statement. But, in my case, more than the machine itself, its prodigious maker mesmerized me, and Steve breaking conventions impressed me more than Steve making inventions (or reinventions). Steve’s traumatic early childhood experiences, particularly his unwed parents giving him up for adoption; his dropping out of college; his passion for calligraphy and typographic fonts; his garage start-up; his conversion to Zen Buddhism (and consequent head-shaving); his counterculture experiments; his dismissal from his own Apple Computers; his counter-challenge to cancer (the rebel's own cells rebelled against him, and in the beginning, he shunned mainstream medicine) -- there was nothing about him, in style as well as substance, that was not sensational and maverick. In my view, Steve was more an iConoclast than an iCon, and I loved seeing him defying tradition more than defining tastes & trends. To me, Steve was a person of transterrestrial brilliance, and an archetypal representative of an uber-smart technological civilization to come.

What "NeXT"? Maybe some insanely ingenious nerds will keep Steve-the-Geek's celebrated inventive legacy alive, and present the world with i-peds, i-pids, i-puds, and other game-changing gizmos to carry users' sensory experiences still deeper. But, I personally look forward to the advent of a “pan-creative” Steve-like genius who will present a cure for pancreatic and other pernicious cancers. Also, I anxiously anticipate the emergence of a Pixar that can physically reanimate the likes of Steve Jobs!!

It is now time to wish “RIP” to Steve, but I would prefer to refrain from doing so, because I know Steve is not the type to ever “rest in peace.” Indeed, he will already be trying to i-connect to his successors from his pad in “outer cybe

As much as I don't care for apple products I must say Steve Jobs is hands down one of the best guys out there. A lot of people despise the guy but I think he truly is a visionary. Not in the follow him like a cult sense that current apple lovers do but more so as his ability to capture the audience. He could walk in to a WWDC and immediately capture his home base then walk in on Bill Gates presentation, interrupt him midway through a sentence and capture their audience as well.

He knows how to grab the attention of the viewer. He could sell a bag of dog droppings and pawn it off as magical and revolutionary and people would buy it. People are so immersed in his presentation of the product that they actually believe everything he says.

You can see that as his buyers being drones or you can see it as his ability to fine tune his ability to communicate something to you so well that it subliminally slips past your abilities to filter it from fact and fiction.

He is a true marketing genius. Love him or hate him he's just really good at what he does.

Agree... the iPhone in 2007 was Steve at his very best. From his opening "We're gonna make some history today" and smiling while saying this. Fantastic. As well as "An iPod, a phone .... are you getting it?"

I have watched this keynote over and over. And I think every single step, every word, just EVERYTHING is planned in his keynotes. When he said "And we are calling it... iPhone" he steps to the middle of the stage, knowing that EVERY camera in this room will be pointed at him in this very moment and behind him, just above his head is the name "iPhone" in über-large letters with him centered under it. Those are the pics, that make the frontpage. And i'd bet my iPhone that this was planned.

I have another favorite moment. At WWDC last year he introduced the iPhone4 and when he came to the point of the all new design, he said "now... stop me if you've already seen this". I remember laughing my **** off.

OT, I know, but seeing him at this year's WWDC was quite a shock. He didn't seem as fit as he usually did on stage. His voice sounded weak and I had a feeling it's hard for him to breath. Whatever doctors it needs - I hope they can "fix" him so he can gives many many more of those moments at keynotes. For me, more entertaining than 95% of regular TV program

i would say the unveiling of the original imac, or the ipod. both were mind blowing at the time, particularly the ipod. i had that same response you did for the iphone. i distinctly remember saying "this will change EVERYTHING."

steve jobs seen his Stanford speech amazing

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Um... why all the talk about Macworld Expo? The article you're linking to is "The best Steve Jobs Keynote Moments" and includes keynotes outside of Macworld Expo.

Color me confused...