The basics of reality distortion

It's important to remember:

Steve wasn't that awesome a presenter, he was merely much better than the alternatives.

The Wall Street and blogosphere reaction to Keynotes was frequently negative. (iPad jokes...)

There was always a crap ton of annoying shit in WWDC keynotes including boring marketing pablum and sales stats, and the self-indulgent videos and awful Johnny Ive videos.

Johnny Ive designed Aqua too. Remember pinstripes?

Apple hasn't lost it. Or if it has, there's no evidence of it yet. Implying otherwise puts Winer on par with the rest of the "what earthshaking sector destroying products has Apple released lately" morons.

I found the rest of the keynote was actually really impressive. Craig has great charisma. It's not the same as Job's charisma but it is good, much better than Tim who seems to lack it utterly.

Also, Dave, the active, transitive form of "effect" you want is "affect." As in, "...will not in any way affect their ability..."

Plus, consider whether Jobs believed what was saying at any given point. Maybe the rant about browser features was said for effect for those within earshot, who knows. After Jobs came back, he talked about how the Apple community needed to let go of the idea that winning meant MS had to lose. Make your choices as to which one he meant (if any).

The racing cars thing sure was strange, though. No disagreement there. Pretty much everyone remarked on it.