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wuliwonglast Monday at 10:05 PM1 replyview on HN

That is not how regular Americans speak. I think it's some weird American corporate speak that has metastasized in Apple keynote presentations. ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)


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spacedcowboylast Tuesday at 7:21 AM

It is, however, how a lot of Silicon Valley speak. Source: lived there for a couple of decades.

And to an outside ear, it does just come across as completely fake.

Jobs' "reality distortion field" was just the conviction in his voice as he spoke. There is no, none, nada, zero conviction in the way Apple deliver these missives. It reeks of corporate America and is therefore not trustworthy.

I'm also kind of surprised that no-one there has altered the format. There are a lot of smart people at Apple...

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