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Live Apple demos were always held together with duct tape in the first place. That first "live" iPhone demo had a memorized sequence that Jobs needed to use to keep the whole phone OS from hard crashing.

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During that first iPhone demo they also had a portable cell tower (cell on wheels) just off-stage to mimic a better signal strength than it was capable of. NYTimes write-up on the whole thing is worth the read [0].

0.https://web.archive.org/web/20250310045704/https://www.nytim...

There was one demo where Steve Jobs told everyone to turn off their WiFi.

It was the demo of FaveTime with the iPhone 4 IIRC

That _was_ worth it indeed--thanks :)

Even with that, Live demos are incredibly more better than hour long demos.

They also force the developers to make it work, under threat of being fired, and in the ire of Steve Jobs case, being yeeted in to the sun along with their ancestors and descendents.

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