Google Gives Apple a Lesson in Showmanship

The Google I/O 2012 keynote began too soon, before a good half of the audience had found their seats. The 6,000 attendees were in danger of getting crushed on the escalators going in, in one of the poorest attempts at crowd control the Moscone Center has witnessed. The Wi-fi had been divided into two networks for attendees and press; both collapsed immediately.

And yet from that ignominious start sprung one of the most memorable keynotes the tech world has ever seen.

It wasn't that Google executives were particularly polished in their delivery, or Jobs-esque in their pacing and presentation. The Jelly Bean unveiling opened with a lengthy discussion of Linux kernel speeds and tripl…
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