“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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iFaulder – The thing to remember is that Cupertino is tiny. Less than 11 square miles in total area. Population is only 50k. Apple has much more clout in Cupertino than they would have in most of the larger adjacent cities.
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To Joop: that’s chinese people planting rice!
That’s a few miles north of Cupertino, I don’t think those are rice fields.
there’s a vid of steve taking a dump ?
kewl
cynic,
Funny, very funny.
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Does he always wear turtle neck and jeans always?
I thought I was supposed to see a nervous Steve Jobs talking?
I believe what I saw was Steve basically telling Cupertino, “You should be thanking us, as one of your city’s biggest taxpayers, that we’ve decided to stay here despite the massive expenses you’ve imposed and the better deals we saw elsewhere!”
He remains a showman. He came prepared. If anything, he looked like he was holding back from having to tell all of them that they should come down from their chairs and proceed to kiss the rump of a billionaire!
He’s still wearing that black turtleneck. For how many years now? It must stink by now. Has anyone seen him wear anything else lately?
He’s still wearing that black turtleneck. For how many years now? It must stink by now. Has anyone seen him wear anything else lately?
He’s still wearing that black turtleneck. For how many years now? It must stink by now. Has anyone seen him wear anything else lately?
He’s still wearing that black turtleneck. For how many years now? It must stink by now. Has anyone seen him wear anything else lately?
Other than the multiple mentions of how expensive Apple paid to aquire those lands, I couldn’t help but noticed that Steve did not ask for handouts such as tax incentives. Over here in North Carolina, we tarheels are still fuming over the spat with the state government handing over over $200 million tax incentives to Dell so they can build a manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem last year.
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Steve Jobs is the master communicator, he suckered those Council People into buying Into His Plans.
Oops, replace “Council People” with “Apple customers”, and “into his plans” with “Macintosh computers”
Just who’s being played like a fiddle?
Jooop – those are salt ponds – they take in water from the bay and let if evaporate which leaves the salt and they collect and use it.