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Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combined
by Tray on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @23:36

Not that Aaron should try to imitate either of them; they're both egomaniac control freaks. KDE and Free/Open Source Software are really lucky to have has such an eloquent spokesperson as Aaron. And he's the talented developer in charge of one of the most visible parts of KDE, Plasma. Tip my hat, sir!

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combin
by yman on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @08:29

I don't think he outperforms Steve Jobs, but he is excellent.

it would be nice though if they tried to create a more professional production. the image quality of the video could definitely be better, and it would help if they were filming it from a few angles. also better projectors and sound system (the video he played would have been so much better).

the video editing was quite good, and so were the speakers. I guess the real question though is what is the target use of this video? because if you want to use it as marketing material for tech enthusiasts, it has to be much better. of course, there may be an issue of limited funds.

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combin
by Paul on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @09:18

All Aaron needs to reach the level of Steve Jobs is add a few "great, extraordinary, most amazing, tremendous, better and better and better" and then put his laptop in an envelop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz1-cPx0cIk

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combin
by yman on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @09:30

Steve Jobs is a bit more lively, and shows more excitement about what he is talking about. the constant repetition of every point he makes does bother me.

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combin
by Max on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @18:26

Steve Jobs uses NLP methods a lot. That's why he is a great public speaker, and memorable. (People like Tony Robins use the same method.)

A side effect is, that it stretches a small amount of products to last about an hour's lenght.

Also keep in mind that people use Steve Jobs' keynote instead of a user manual these days to learn how to use a product.

For this last presentation Aaron's format was great, and I'm glad somebody has even decided to tape it so we can see the footage "like we were there".

I think for a consumer level presentation, it would be great if Aaron would go over all the features of KDE 4.1 (when it comes out for Windows/Mac).
That would really help "sell" (increase public awareness, publicity, and show users how to use it.) the 4.1 branch and onwards. It works for Steve Jobs, just let Aaron develop his own speaking style for KDE. I'm looking forward to a similar hype about upcoming KDE releases. (don't forget to mark them on digg, stumbleupon, del.ici.ous, etc..)

I wonder if Google is willing to sponsor such an event.

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combin
by yman on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @09:39

what's NLP?

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combin
by AC on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @22:42

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combined
by Tom on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @05:47

Outdoing Steve would mean saying "Better, better, better!" in every sentence.
I think Aaron was on different level as those two.

Best keynote i have seen in ages.

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Re: Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combin
by Bobby on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @03:22

It was a very informative and educational presentation and he presented himself as a surprisingly (for me) professional speaker. I wouldn't compare him with the above mentioned persons because he seems to be honest and more natural. Attributes that Steve and Bill could borrow from him.

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