Presentation-Secrets-Of-Steve-Jobs
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
STAGE YOUR PRESENTATION WITH PROPS 145<br />
demo. He told the audience that what he really wanted to show<br />
off was Safari’s speed compared with Internet Explorer (IE 7).<br />
The demo screen showed both browsers side by side. <strong>Jobs</strong><br />
loaded a series of websites simultaneously on both. Safari accomplished<br />
the task in 6.64 seconds, while IE 7 took 13.56 seconds<br />
to accomplish the same task. “Safari is the fastest browser on<br />
Windows,” <strong>Jobs</strong> concluded. 11 The entire demo took less than<br />
three minutes. It could have lasted much longer, but <strong>Jobs</strong> chose<br />
to focus on one feature and one feature only. <strong>Jobs</strong> doesn’t overwhelm<br />
his audience. Just as he eliminates clutter on slides, his<br />
demos are likewise free of extraneous messages.<br />
In 2006, Apple added a podcast studio to GarageBand, a tool<br />
bundled into the iLife suite of applications intended to make<br />
it easy for users to create and distribute multimedia content.<br />
“We’ve added a lot of great stuff to GarageBand,” said <strong>Jobs</strong>, “but<br />
I’m going to focus on one thing to demo today, and that is we have<br />
added a podcast studio to GarageBand. We think GarageBand is<br />
now going to be the best tool in the world to create podcasts. It’s<br />
pretty great. Let me go ahead and give you a demo.”<br />
<strong>Jobs</strong> walked to stage right, sat down, and created a short<br />
podcast in four steps. First, <strong>Jobs</strong> recorded the audio track and<br />
had loads of fun with it. He even stopped the first recording<br />
and started over because the audience caused him to laugh so<br />
hard. <strong>Jobs</strong> recorded the following: “Hi, I’m <strong>Steve</strong>. Welcome to<br />
my weekly podcast, ‘Supersecret Apple Rumors,’ featuring the<br />
hottest rumors about our favorite company. I have some pretty<br />
good sources inside Apple, and this is what I’m hearing: the<br />
next iPod will be huge, an eight-pounder with a ten-inch screen!<br />
Well, that’s all for today. See you next week.”<br />
After making the playful recording, <strong>Jobs</strong> walked through the<br />
next three steps, showing the audience how to add artwork and<br />
background music. Once done, he played the podcast and said,<br />
“Pretty cool, huh? That is the podcast studio, which is now built<br />
into GarageBand.” 12<br />
Although <strong>Jobs</strong> did a nice demonstration of the podcast studio,<br />
it could not compete with the first release of GarageBand in 2005:<br />
“Today we’re announcing something so cool: a fifth app that<br />
will be part of the iLife family. It’s name is GarageBand. What is