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Jobs has his Gates moment at iPhone 4 Demo

Jun 7, 2010 9:03PM PDT

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I love the guy who screams "Verizon!"
Jun 7, 2010 10:34PM PDT

And then Steve Jobs later went on to ask a room full of live bloggers and journalists to turn off their wifi. That's like asking a bunch of barflies to go sober for the evening. I'm sure he had his own secure network and that whoever was in charge of it was fired within seconds.

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Seriously...
Jun 7, 2010 11:42PM PDT

They had to have their own network...why would there be any issues?

I just thought it was cool to see a little humility bestowed upon this company and Jobs, himself. The perils of live demos, lol.

I agree that there's probably a backstory on the aftermath of this little snafu. Wonder if we'll ever hear how Jobs responded once the presentation was over.

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I'm sure if you talk about it you'd get fired too.
Jun 8, 2010 12:01AM PDT

Working for Apple seems a little like working for the CIA.

I'm thinking there was was some serious wi-fi interference going on.

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I can guarantee it won't happen again.
Jun 8, 2010 12:25AM PDT

If jobs has to have wifi tuned off for all everyone at moscone center but himself he will do it.

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That's OK....
Jun 8, 2010 2:06AM PDT

Every future SteveNote will have the audience sit inside a Faraday cage from now on.

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(NT) Oh that's good!
Jun 8, 2010 4:35AM PDT
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Just means
Jun 9, 2010 4:25PM PDT

No demos in the future of wifi only products. Wink *cough* Bye MacBook Air.

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That would mean no more iPhone demos either
Jun 9, 2010 11:01PM PDT

Because there's no data connection coming through that dock connector. I think its more likely they will start frisking people at the door and taking away mifi's.

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Or
Jun 10, 2010 11:24AM PDT

3G in everything. Wink