Crash!
Published January 11, 2005 by Ed Bott
So the CEO of a giant high-tech company gives a keynote address announcing some new products and his demo crashes. No, not that CEO.
Funny how this one didn’t get as much coverage as the one last week..
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There’s no doubt, in my mind, that the fact that the Apple crash occurred in a beta-version of a product that won’t be released for six months may have something to do with this as well.
So thats the same as the Xbox demo, an Assert check in a beta product (Fozer Racer) that won’t be released till April or something. I fail to see the difference.
The difference is that the Apple products don’t keep crashing in retail.
Yeah, because “An Error of Type -1 Occurred” never happened.
The difference is, unlike the Gates freeze, Jobs didn’t sit there for an agonozing amount of time waiting for it to work. He had a back-up Mac right there and continued his demo with barely a pause.
“Yeah, because ‘An Error of Type -1 Occurred’ never happened.”
It’s 2005. We haven’t seen that since 1999 or so.
The difference is that Gates was demonstrating technologies that have been around for years…. 802.11 wireless connections between devices, and connecting a tablet PC to the internet.
Jobs, to contrast, was demonstrating the next major upgrade of the operating system, still several months from release. The technology he was demonstrating, Spotlight, is something that Microsoft pulled as ‘undeliverable’ from the next version of their operating system, due some time next year.
The difference in situations is so clear that I’m inclined to think that you are biased with regards to Mr. Gates and Microsoft.
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