Best Programming Master

I remember the day Apple’s Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. Steve was a genius of presentation. He was P. T. Barnum incarnate, reimagined for the digital age. He said “ I am announcing three products today; a widescreen iPod, a revolutionary phone and a break-through internet device… and we are calling it the iPhone ”. It was a superbly ‘Steve’ performance, dripping with the braggadocious drama he was so good at and peppered with pregnant pauses to give the audience time to applaud and to let the import of what he was saying sink in. That event, accompanied by a soundtrack of excited whoops, was a genuine inflection point for the tech industry; a truly capable hand-held computer was being launched. The fact it was a phone seemed almost secondary. Had it been anyone else other than Steve Jobs would it have been the success it became? We will never know, but it’s hard to imagine the same stratospheric launch taking place to the more monotone vocalizations of the financially successful bu