Steve Jobs Speech Analysis

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Steve Jobs - the great businessman, inventor and a visionary of 21st century was the co-founder and the CEO the Apple.Inc. He was the person who had created the most powerful machine - the iphone ipad imac with the most easy user friendly interactions on their products. He is known as one of the most influential inventor and was a powerful public speaker that made him a role model for all modern entrepreneurs.

The first speech I have chosen is from his keynote when he introduced “IPHONE” in 2007 and the second speech is of 2010 when he introduced “IPHONE 4 and FACETIME”. In these speeches he introduced two new products in the market and tells about the features and how these futuristic products will change one’s life and also how we would
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The way he gives the descriptive Information in his speech is very knowledgeable like his speeches have lots of information about the topic and also about the history of the thing and if the process needs a short description so while telling the process he speeds ups his level of speaking. In his speeches the way he always try to enthusiast the customers is probably his most significant approach to draw attention of the viewers. He experiments such speaking skills during giving demos of his new products. While giving the demos he acts highly energetic as if he is quite fascinated by his own innovation just like a new user who has bought this unique product. His manner of speech consists of lot of short sentences, adjectives and exclamations while giving the demo like “boom “ ,“very sample” and etc.

In fact overall Steve Jobs is a person of great vision who can persuade his costumers with his communication skills imparting a good knowledge base of his new products along with technical and other useful information, examples etc. His speech leaves a great impact on audience and his sentences are often used as inspiring quotes said by great persons. This excellence helped him to accomplish a great

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