Comment by rbanffy

> The engineers identified a “golden path,” a specific set of demo actions that Jobs could perform in a specific order that afforded them the best chance of the phone making it through the presentation without a glitch.

In a past life, when I sold my soul to the devil, I did a lot of demos on behalf of Microsoft that were precisely scripted. And, even then, NT4 BSOD'd on me in front of a packed auditorium once.

That's why one of the key skills of a corporate public face in IT is stand-up comedy. They didn't see the flawless ISS crash containment they were promised, but at least they had some great laughs.

Funny now that the devil isn't that much of a baddie anymore.