Apple streams first live concert to iPhone

Apple Online Store “Tonight Apple will produce its first-ever live event streamed to the iPhone: a concert by the electronica band Underworld. Apple has apparently kept the event quiet as it doesn’t want to overwhelm the AT&T network, but if you have an iPhone you can queue it up yourself at iphone.akamai.com or underworldlive.com. The show starts at 9 p.m. PT and the stream is free.”

More info here.

[Attribution: The Apple Blog. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]

41 Comments

  1. The funny thing is that when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he envisioned it as a way to stream concerts, lectures, and the like, live to homes. He was not thinking of the person to person calling that telephones have overwhelmingly been used for over their history.

    (And he did not call it “streaming”, a modern word for his original idea. Don’t know what he called it.)

  2. qka – Cool trivia. Thanks.

    I remember when MTV first aired live concerts “simulcast” in stereo over select radio stations before stereo television was commonplace. Like Underworld, the first acts they aired were fairly obscure. I think Bob Welch (“Ebony Eyes,” “Sentimental Lady”) was one of the very first concerts. Stevie Nicks and a few other guests showed up, too. I can vividly recall thinking stereo t.v. would be so frickin’ awesome…

  3. Looks like MDN put my link up too late. I was hoping they would put it up last light while the gig was still on. There was a 2 hour session by Underworld which I caught some of. Very clear although there was a slight lag on the audio.

    Great gig.

  4. TT

    We won’t go into any, ahem, “reasons”

    But think you be correct-a-mundo

    Least from what I remember, which ain’t much for some “reason” … ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”cool smile” style=”border:0;” />

    BC

  5. If readers are going to troll the other sites for MacDailyNews, at least someone can actually fact check it a bit before it’s actually published, eh?

    I believe MacNN was the first to report this, and they gave us 3 hours of advance notice before the event. It was good too. Barely a hiccup in video or sound.

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