Apple's chief exec and irreplaceable master of ceremonies has few if any equals when it comes to wowing audiences during product demos, but even Steve Jobs's famous reality-distortion field couldn't protect him from an embarrassing Wi-Fi snafu during the big WWDC keynote Monday. About 20 or 30 minutes into the big iPhone reveal, the Wi-Fi network that Jobs was using to show off Web browsing on the iPhone 4's revamped screen conked out, leaving Apple's normally poised, ultra-confident CEO a bit red-faced as the audience stared at a giant blank Web page. [align=center][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_9jpoi8KKk[/youtube][/align] "Our networks in here are always unpredictable. They are slow today," said Jobs, as he waited, and waited, and waited. No dice. Then Jobs asked the audience for a little assistance. "You know, you could help me out if you're on Wi-Fi, if you could just get off. … I'd appreciate it." Naturally, the members of the audience — probably half of whom were furiously live-blogging away — roared with laughter, and the guffaws only grew louder when an error message popped up reading "could not activate cellular network." [i]AT&T, anyone?[/i] "Yep, I know that," Jobs replied testily, as the wireless problems dragged on for another minute. "Well, geez, I don't like this. I'm afraid I have a problem and I won't be able to show you much here today," groaned Jobs, who finally resorted to showing off high-resolution photos from the iPhone 4's photo roll, to some appreciative applause. Then Steve tried the Web again — and still, no luck. "Well, I'm sorry, guys, I don't know what's going on," he said, looking around for help. ""Uh ... Scott, got any suggestions?" Of course, some snarky goofball in the audience just couldn't resist. [b]"Verizon!"[/b] the guy shouted, and the audience roared again. Jobs smiled. "We're actually on Wi-Fi here, so ... " Anyway, within another minute or so, the Wi-Fi was back, and Jobs moved on, albeit with the occasional plea to members of the press to please, please turn your Wi-Fi off. (The collective answer: Yeah, right.) [spoiler]Credits to: Yahoo! News[/spoiler] [align=center][hr] Lmao. Epic fail. Verizon, anyone? [b]:[/b]))[/align]

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