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You're leaving out how this was in the context of a demonstration of how strong the window was.
You don't have to hate someone to enjoy them failing after bragging about how great something of theirs is. You just need to be human.
Yes, it was part of a demo. It's funny how that context is always left out.
Who else gets treated like this during a product demo?
What other similarly publicized product demos have included such failures?
Meta? Google glasses?
How many product demos have journos purposely leaving out context?
How many 'twitter is doomed' articles have been written since musk took over.
Do you really believe there is no bias? Honest question...
What specifically did went so badly in a Meta or Google glass demostration event?
When you're talking up your product based on how strong your windows are, it's pretty noteworthy when they fail repeatedly during your demonstration.
There is absolutely bias against musk. But highlighting this failed demo is not an example of it.
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This apple conference was famously clowned on back in the day when steve jobs couldnt get the wifi to work. https://youtube.com/watch?v=znxQOPFg2mo
Its just kinda funny to see some megacorp talking up the hot new shit and then it falls flat on its face, even if it doesn't actually represent how the final product is.
"Famously".
Doesn't sound like everyone just ignored his flop.
People love to see the rich, powerfull, and successful fail. It doesn't take a biased media to gin up interest in a car producer saying his windows are strong and then breaking them (twice) during the demonstration of their strength.
I'm not saying people aren't biased against Musk. I'm saying that if you think this is evidence of that bias, you are wrong.
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Everyone? We just passed the 25th anniversary of the time Windows 98 crashed during a live demo. Google it and skim the millions of results. And Bill Gates used to be hated at least as much as Musk is. Today if you heard Gates ranting about "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" you might wonder if he was working on an anti-Anopheles-mosquito gene drive to end malaria, not just trying to crush open computing standards.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
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Windows 98 didn't have the equivalent of being hit with a baseball bat, like someone trying to hack it or force it to crash.
Not sure what they were exactly demoing, but "attempting to use multitasking" was kind of like hitting Windows 98 with a baseball bat as I recall...
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