I was sent a link to YouTube video of several start-ups competing for venture capital, each giving a recent 3 minute presentation. I say that with some sense of caution however. With Steve’s passing who at Apple can carry the torch for Keynote? The obvious answer is Phil Schiller who, after Steve, is most associated with demonstrating iWork in action at Apple keynotes, and showing us updates.īut is Phil invested sufficiently in Keynote to see it continue to be updated with features for a contemporary presentation population, both givers and receivers who have become steadily sophisticated in their expectations. No, Steve emulated for us how the slides were adjuncts to our spoken stories, never getting in the way of what the presenter was saying or doing, but ready to illustrate ideas when words were not enough. Jobs never hid behind his slides as so many people do, preferring their slides to sell the story. It’s not used as a lecture technology, as an adult training tool, or as a brainstorming of ideas technology. The audience is engaged with the story he tells of Apple’s products and services, where he employs Keynote like a storyboard, outlining a roadmap.
This might sound strange coming from someone who was the original beta tester for Apple’s Keynote, and who continued to employ it to show Apple’s wares right up to the release of the iPad 2.īut as I have written elsewhere, a Jobs’ keynote does not engage the audience in a dialogue. “People who know what they’re talking about don’t need Powerpoint” One could just imagine Jobs focussing on the expectedly lousy Powerpoint slides of medical researchers while they’re focussing on his genome sequence for which he’s paid $100,000!īut earlier on the book, when Jobs has returned to Apple and is setting about constructing his “A” team to resurrect Apple, we see how he eschews presentations with slideware when he believes it takes from, rather than adds to, the creative process: Let’s start with the final reference where Jobs is very ill, and his wife Laurene and others have organised various medical and genetics research staff to investigate where next in his treatment: We’ll work our way through some of them because it’s quite illuminating to hear what someone who presentation bloggers and authors rate as one of the world’s best presenters (and the world’s best CEO presenter) has to say about Powerpoint, and presentations in general. Global search of Powerpoint references in "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson You won’t find Powerpoint or Keynote listed in the book’s index, but in the iBooks’ version I have, you can of course do a global search for keywords. Walter Isaacson’s Jobs’ biography mentions his distaste for Powerpoint, and slideshow-based presentations in general (save for his own keynote presentations) on six occasions. How I and attendees would have had special memories to take with us had that happened!īut before you think it merely fantasy, others in the health professions have indeed been on the receiving end of Jobs’ “advice” with regard to their presentations, especially when they used Powerpoint. I’m sure many readers have fantasised what they would have said to Steve Jobs if they happened to meet him, and perhaps some of you have! My other fantasy includes him walking into my first Presentation Magic presentation at Macworld 2008, saying “This sucks!”, then taking over the show to share his presentation ideas.
(If you can find a description of Apple’s DNA earlier than 2004, please let me know!) It is on this website that I first suggested Apple ought to make a tablet (I nicknamed it the iScribe) which would be brilliant for Keynote users to remote use: Perhaps he had read of the “Apple DNA” concept on my blog article in December, 2004, a screenshot of which is below. In more recent years, he spoke of hoping to keep Apple’s DNA alive after he was gone by dint of the new Apple building he has commissioned to be built on some previous Hewlett-Packard land.
#Iscribe tablet software#
I can certainly fantasise that he many have read some of my blog articles about Apple products such as the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone and of course his presentation software of choice, Keynote. I saw Steve a few times up close when I visited the Apple campus in the last few years, but never had a chance to speak with him. I knew much of the story he told from the various unauthorised biographies as well as individual blogs written about him, as well as movies such as “ Triumph of the Nerds” and “Pirates of Silicon Valley”. I’ve just finished reading on my iPad and iPhone Walter Isaacson’s superb biography of Steve Jobs.
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