“Samsung Electronics, Intel and Microsoft have been promoting their joint project ‘Origami’ mini-laptop PC since they first showed it last month. In fact, the new PC proved to be too revolutionary, enough to baffle the three firms’ executive officers who publicly tried to demonstrate how to use it,” Cho Jin-seo reports for The Korea Times. “During Wednesday’s news conference at Grand InterContinental in southern Seoul, some 30 reporters gathered to watch the much-hyped product named Q1, or Ultra Mobile PC. Kim Hun-soo, vice president of Samsung’s PC division, first ascended to the podium as he tried to do the presentation in a Steve Jobs style _ which was not so successful. Kim first tried to start the Powerpoint presentation, which was saved in his Q1. But after introducing himself, he failed to turn to the second page while his staff nervously watched him.”
“After spending several nerve-racking minutes trying to solve the problem on his own, Kim was finally helped by one of his staff to get to the next page. ‘This kind of mistake happens in every presentation, even though you practice it all night,” he said. But that was not the end of his bad day. Several pages later, the large projection screen suddenly completely went black. Samsung’s staff again rushed to help the vice president, and found the Q1’s battery has run out,” Cho Jin-seo reports.
“Microsoft Korea’s president Yoo Jae-sung became the second victim of the day when he took over the turn after Kim wrapped up his presentation. Yoo also spent several minutes figuring out how to start the presentation file. Finally, a Samsung employee succeeded in turning it on. But then the Q1 suddenly flipped through every page of Yoo’s presentation file in a just few seconds. ‘Now you have seen all the contents in advance,’ Yoo said, and made a very brief presentation,” Cho Jin-seo reports. “Lastly, Lee Hee-sung, president of Intel Korea, had his turn. Going up to the podium, the energetic Intel Korea CEO pronounced that he would ‘do it in my own way as my predecessors have had a difficult time.’ But Lee also failed to kick off his presentation by himself, and had to be helped by the staff who looked as if they were expecting the same kind of problems to happen again.”
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To me, the best thing about Jobs’ presentations is that beyond being incredibly professional and rehearsed, he is also able to think on his feet. If something goes wrong, he knows enough to be able to attempt to get it working. If he can’t get it working pretty much straight away then he’ll move on, get another piece of equipment, go to a back up, whatever. So many of these other people just get totally flummoxed if something goes wrong and act like a deer in the headlights. Apple stuff has gone wrong but they handle it oh so much better.
The only truly embarrassing things that have happened in apple presentations (in recent memory) have been when other people have been talking (non-apple) people. Also, though not classed as something going wrong, who else cringes whenever that woman from the Microsoft MacBU talks?
If they could have folded the device into a swan, it might have made a better impression. How embarrassing. Maybe they were using the beta version of the new PowerlessPoint software. It comes with crayons and a fold up artboard.
Okay, once again…
your: A person’s; one’s
you’re: Contraction of you are.
yore: Time long past: days of yore.
We’ll do “to”, “two”, and “too” next time.
I saw a flock of moosen.
New Origami Ads:
The Samsung Origami. Hey, it’s bigger than a Newton.
or
The Samsung Origami. We’ll put XP on anything!
More Origami Ads:
The Samsung Origami. We will fold before it will.
The Q1. Because QT sounds 2 cutey.
The Q1. Buy it for looks.
Ultra Mobile PC. Much more than just an expensive brick.
Ultra Mobile PC. So secure that NO ONE can access your files.
If I was Samsung, I’d be looking for a new OS maker to partner with since it’s obviously the OS and not the hardware.
I would hate to be a hardware company that had to rely on Windows. That would be like Porsche having to rely on Kia to make their seats.
And what’s with all the Boot Camp news? Who cares. I was running Windows 95 with no emulation and OS 8 back on my 8500 on an Apple PC Compatibility Card. Macs have always been able to run Windows more or less. But the whole point of buying a Mac is the fact that it isn’t Windows.
The main reason Apple’s presentations come off so well is because they actually have something to present.
Smoke-and-mirrors presentations usually fail.
justified: No, just smoke. And really good home grown at that. No mirrors. Mirrors might have actually projected a message. They’re also going to market that it has infinite battery life since it always remains off.
“Origami Stumps”
Wasn’t that a blind Japanese blues musician that tore up the French Quarter with jazzy flute street concerts back in the 1930s?
Doesn’t sound “too revolutionary” to me but more like what MS has been providing for years, a user friendly experience, i.e. you need a few friends (those tech support people) to help you through.
I still see it too, people held hostage by a mechanic, companies held hostage by a large and needing to grow IT department, salesmen that need “developers developers developers.”
Same ole same ole.
The ship is sinking Bill left the boat years ago.
Some people still think the world is round.
Ran out of power during presentation. That’s great…
The more keynotes I watch, I more I appreciate the skill of Steve Jobs as a presenter. And while he is great on the stage, most of the work is done by him and his lieutenants in preparation… including practicing and rehearsing. Something these South Koreans apparently never considered doing.
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So user friemdly. And that’s Meecrosoft.
This is how they define userfriendly, innovative products.
The worst thing to happen at a Steve Jobs keynote that I can remember is very recent: at the iPod Hi-Fi launch when he was introducing the new networked AirTunes. Someone had not loaded any music or photos on his MacBook Pro (although they had on Phil Schiller’s, that being the point of the presentation). Steve just said “Oh no! They forgot to load the stuff on here” and moved on.
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the same mistake..
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Unlike conventional laptops, Q1 does not have a built-in keyboard. Users type on its touch-screen keyboard or on a small external keyboard that users may find uncomfortable and unfamiliar to use.
M.X.N.T.4.1,
We can all cringe away, but Microsoft MacBU’s Ho can’t compare to the befuddlement of Sony’s CEO “presentation” about HD videocams.
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