That's exactly what I meant... Jobs would have made them stress test that system before the event so this does not happen. The most popular company in the world that creates the incredible hype for its events should have made sure the system worked unless they wanted some to feel left out thus igniting jealous resentment.
The majority of past Apple live-streams have had problems, though this one was perhaps one of the worst. It's less an issue of Jobs-era vs. post-Jobs-era, and more to do with Apple's culture of control being at odds with the complexities of network scalability. (They should really just outsource it to YouTube.)
The HTML summaries on apple.com were a nice touch, though, which softened the blow.
