“What would it have been like had Apple’s legendary co-founder lived to see the arrival of Apple’s debut into the smartwatch market?” Luke Dormehl asks for Cult of Mac.
“To give us an idea, one dedicated Apple fan [John Appleseed] cut up and reassembled old ‘Stevenote’ speeches to piece together an Apple Watch ad narrated by Jobs himself,” Dormehl writes.
“Considering that it relies on old sound bytes about unrelated products,” Dormehl writes, “it actually works.”
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MacDailyNews Take: God, we miss you, Steve!
Well done!
3 out of 5.
Thank you! It was good to hear Steve do an intro again. He is greatly missed.
It will be interesting when Apple has AI. I believe it should use Steve Jobs’ voice. However, being an AI, it will select it’s own over time. Maybe several based on the location and age of the people it is addressing.
Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!
It was so good to hear Steve do an intro again.
He is greatly missed.
Or, the release might not have happened yet because he might have said, “Jony, it’s shit! Start over again!!!” Or he might not have. We’ll never know.
Very nicly done !
Yeah… but he didn’t… Tim ‘Southern Belle’ Cook did… that’s why it’s a superfluous gizmo instead of a game changer. Steve Jobs: iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, App Store, etc. Time Cook: Apple Pay and fabubbbliiizzz watch to go shopping girlfriend!
It must really suck to be you.
Macumba – Are you REALLY a homophobic jerk, or just play one on TV?
I can tell, you’re a real hit at parties.
Macumba is right.
Steve Jobs would never have introduced the Apple Watch, because it’s garbage!
As far as Tim Cook goes, he likes to throw the fact that’s he gay in our faces every chance he gets. So here’s to you Tim, you sausage swallowing, giz gurgling, tea bagging, Apple Watch introducing, rainbow clown!
Usually those who are the most vehemently anti-gay have deep down homosexual tendencies and crave to perform the acts they so loudly condemn. Sounds like you and Macumba might want to have a sleep over.
Don’t forget he also bought Beats for $3 Billion! BTW you also messed up the launch of thin edged iMacs, Mac Pros, iOS 8.0.1, hired John Browett (remember that guy?), missed the boat on music streaming, is failing to evolve retail, now introduces this abomination that does nothing my phone can’t do and messes up the supply chain while he’s at it. The hits just keep on coming! Don’t give me that garbage on how the stock is at its peak under him. It’s at its peak because they are selling the products Steve introduced!
I want to buy Steve’s watch!! I just got Tim’s watch by delivery yesterday, but Steve’s sounds so hot. I want another. 🙂
Well done to whoever put this video together. Thank you.
Steve cared about Apple and their products a very great deal. It was his passion. What a contrast to the current CEO, who is more interested in shoving his gay agenda down people’s throats and alienating customers in the process.
Well, you could always dig him up to give one last keynote. 🙂
If Steve Jobs were alive, I’m convinced the Apple Watch would be a much different product. A simpler, easier-to-use product. And a nicer-looking product. Perhaps, dare I say, something that looks like a classic watch and less like an Android watch.
Ge’ez, when is your next gig at the comedy club? Sweeping up that is.
Could always count on silverhawk never having anything nice to say. Imagine. Your so deconstructive. Your a perfect Samsung customer. There quality and your train of thought would guarantee them never to come close to apple
I am all choked up all over again.
Jobs is God.
So sad to see all the gay bashing on this site (@macumba, orandy, bereanbob) – I hope you are just visitors and will leave soon. Tim has done an amazing job at Apple, that is not my opinion, just use the stock market as your guide. Steve picked him and Jony, knowing exactly who they were, and he picked correctly. Now as far as the Apple Watch goes, I’ve been using it for about a month. It is amazing already, and you can see even more potential. While you are busy bashing it, there are thousands of others writing the code you need to make it exceed anything you could imagine. I remember when I got the first iPhone, it was amazing but there were lots of issues. Of course the Apple Watch has issues – but just like the iPhone the Apple Watch is a platform, not a single product. Sheezz – give it a few years. You have decided you must bash it publicly but you have no real understanding of what you are bashing.
Oh – and the video was really fun – well done!
I’m convinced that if Jobs were alive, he would have told the engineers to come back when it could do something more than the iPhone.
I am 100% certain that Jobs would never have approved a $10,000 to $17,000 gold bauble. Steve liked to make a buck, but that over-the-top elitism goes against everything he put into Apple. I think that even in his cancer-weakened state he would have literally thrown whoever brought that idea out of his office.
Why does the expensive price bother you? You can buy the EXACT same functionality for $400! If some fool WANTS to overpay $16,600, isn’t that a good thing?
No, it’s not a good thing. It damages Apple’s image. And there’s $16,600 that could have done some good in the world.
Apple’s image isn’t being hurt; if anything it is improving in that particular market segment. In the lower-end segment, people were polarized long ago: some of us love Apple products, others wouldn’t have one if you gave it to them. Not much middle ground. Those who aren’t polarized are probably impressed that they can buy a $400 watch that does everything the $17,000 watch can do!
As far as using the money for a “better world”, in general, I suspect Apple will do more for the world than someone willing to waste that much on a watch. I, therefore, have no problem relieving the fool of his cash.
Good for Apple, how is it good for you?
I think you kind of make my point: someone loses and some gains, but it isn’t me in either case. The original poster was complaining that $17,000 was too expensive. I don’t understand why that is troubling him; no one said he had to buy one, and in fact, one oils be purchased for $400. That’s what I did: I bought the cheapest 42mm. It serves my needs. I am more than happy for Apple to make many profits from those who want to spend more; more profits mean more development for the watch. I benefit because Apple benefits.
No idea where “oils” came from. Read as “a watch can be purchased for $400.”