If you are about to give an interview and show off your new product to a bunch of people, wouldn't you take time in advance to make sure all is set up and you can give a flawless demo of many different aspects of the toy? Having a WIFI connection should be one of the basics.
Absolutely. The lame excuse leads to the obvious conclusion that he could not give a demo of YouTube streaming video, which is very curious.
It might be an ARM processor. Flash can run on an ARM (works on my Nokia N800), but that is not a free flash player from Adobe. Money is a known issue, so that might be the explanation.
It might indeed be a custom OS rather than linux and they don't have flash (a binary blob) running on their custom OS, but why would they not use linux???
Hmmm, it could be a MIPS derivative (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) - I don't know what the flash player availability is on MIPS. Interesting thought...
Yes. I did not see the video live, am seeing it now that it is posted. I should not have speculated without seeing the video. Sorry. :-(
He also is doing the interview from a borrowed office, which could easily explain why he was unable to get the wifi running (ended up connecting via mifi, i.e. cellular).
he's spent a lot of time doing interviews and has gotten exceptionally good at it. He knows what questions the viewers want and makes sure to get the answer/rounds back to the question.
