“If you haven’t seen the video of Steve Jobs addressing Cupertino City Council the other night, it’s worth checking out. The really interesting thing about it is the way his performance contrasts with his Macworld keynote speeches. Gone is the polished showman. There’s no slick slideshow or whooping audience (in fact there’s barely an audience at all). And Jobs seems much more nervous talking to the Council members than he does addressing the world’s media at Macworld,” Kenny writes for Mac Vista.
“Note the way he shuffles, scratches and adjusts his glasses. He appears to be almost humble. But is it for real, or another example of Jobs’ supreme communication skills? Among the many things Jobs is good at is talking to an audience. He’s an expert at adjusting his pitch to suit the recipient of his message in order to ensure he gets what he wants. And I think this is what he is doing here,” Kenny writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The maestro plays ’em like a fiddle.
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so, MDN is keeping all the ad formats and adding the InteliTXT.
i thought they were asking us so they don’t want to use all formats!!??
i know, i know if I don’t like it i don’t have to come here but i thought that was the idea behind asking us what do we prefer!
thanks
Good news for Cupertino, I think. I noticed the way he kept bringing up the fact that this was so much more expensive and how he could have gone else ware. Could this mean that there will be issues with the land and how he wants to combined them?
Regarding ads: We need more than 3.5 days of running IntelliTXT to have a representative sample upon which to base a decision. We will probably have enough information by the start of May about keeping or dropping IntelliTXT ads and/or dropping other ad formats.
More info: About advertising on MacDailyNews (request for feedback) – April 19, 2006
Thank you.
damn, that man can give a speech
And we’ll probably get bigger still.
Gotta’ love that Viagra.
God bless YouTube.
One campus for the Mac division, the other for iPod division?
When addressing politicians it is critical to appear humble and deferential. This gives the politician the feeling of superior benevolence and gracious generosity. This video is an example of psychologically massaging your audience.
Folks, what program can we download to block these IntelliTXT ads from showing up? They are so annoying!!!!
Could this mean that there will be issues with the land and how he wants to combined them?
Jobs was gently reminding them that, although they own the land, Apple can still move elsewhere, where governmental regulation may not be so restrictive.
Jobs wants this project, but he won’t put up with any petty impediments from City/County/or environmental agencies. Notice the reference to Apple being Cupertino’s largest property tax payer and subtle reference to tearing down “inefficient” (translated to low property tax base) buildings in favor of a new “efficient” (translated to higher tax base) building.
Notice also how he didn’t mention that Apple will be vacating several other buildings throughout town.
Polticians are so predictable. They are/can be more star struck than the average citizen. It looked like a love fest at the end.
Steve is a master of communication. Wow.
is it me or now watching this for the third time did all of the City Council members looked stared struck.
thinking now I would be stared struck if I seen Steve Jobs
If there was a video of Steve taking a dump, so of you would praise and worship it, too.
Whew! Time for some to get a life.
Steve Jobs promises increasing tax revenues and politicians see government programs, give-aways, and re-elections.
“Yes, sir, Mr. Jobs, sir, whatever you say, Mr. Jobs. We are happy to help.”
“Can I help you move. Mr. Jobs? I have a pick up, you know.”
“Yes, yes, of course. I think I will be available to help you move that day, Mr. Jobs. Sure, I can reschedule my daughter’s wedding. Thank you, Mr. Jobs. My pleasure, Mr. Jobs.”
Air Freshener:
Time to do a little proof-reading, too, eh? Can I borrow you a moment? I need you to combat some flatus from my ass. Ah, that’s better. Thanks.
Greg says Polticians are so predictable. They are/can be more star struck than the average citizen. It looked like a love fest at the end.
And you guys don’t see that as THEM massaging Job’s Famous Giant Ego?
“If there was a video of Steve taking a dump, so of you would praise and worship it, too.”
It would be perfect cube of excrement in a gleaming white toilet balanced on an aluminum stand.
stared struck? wtf?
Does anyone know how you can save/download a video off YouTube?
But is it for real, or another example of Jobs’ supreme communication skills?
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You do know that he rehearses the keynotes like crazy, right?
Why one EARTH would he rehearse for this. There you have it.. the difference.
Analysis of this regarding him being ‘nervous’ is f****g retarded.
Apple haters have this fascination with sh*t… I guess they spend their day imagining all sorts of gross things like that.
While Apple fans are discussing about the company, its CEO, their computers, software and other electronic gadgets, the Apple haters like to talk about dumps, sh*t and other related fecal matters.
Seriously, who always brings this topic first?
I saw this the other day… he is a master communicator. Humble Steve, yea right. My brother is in the AV biz, was in the room with Steve and eventually his handler. The handler was late, my brother had the nerve to talk to Steve in the mean time, not good. The handler gave my brother a hard time later. I love Steve’s company, and my brother’s experience was a few years ago, pre-cancer Steve, maybe he’s changed.
Here’s a 2-cent question, MDN.
Did you know, when 3rd party software is employed to block your advertising, it also blocks your Magic Word anti-comment-spam mechanism??
If you don’t get rid of the ads, then you will not have a commenting audience spicing things up, which, I’m sure is one of the big draws to this site.
NO COMMENTS = MDN Ghost town… just has been already said.
Now you’ll know the whys and wherefores before it happens.
(3rd party software= Saft/SafariStand/PithHelmet,etc. I had to disable all that stuff just to have the ability to make this comment. How many times are people going to do that?)
Here is the site on Google Maps. It is the parcel contained within Pruneridge, N. Tantau, N Wolfe and RT 280. The HP building is parcel directly to the north of that site.
Link did not work for some reason… here is the URL:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=95014&ll=37.329816,-122.008034&spn=0.00726,0.012188&t=h&om=1