MacDailyNews Take: Finally! First test of NC?
Viewing requires either a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard, an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad.
MacDailyNews Take: QuickTime X. In other words: Windows, Symbian, BlackBerry, Android, WebOS (heh, “WebOS” – we crack ourselves up sometimes!) and other such sufferers can suck it. You can wait for us Apple product users to experience it first. As usual.
The live broadcast will begin at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.
MacDailyNews Take: Praise Jobs!
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
Source: Apple Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: And now, a bit of a flashback:
During Jobs’ big unveiling of the already-unveiled [iPhone 4], the Wi-Fi [was] so saturated by the media’s WiFi networks that he [couldn’t] do his demos properly, if at all… The funny thing is, Apple brought this WiFi failure upon themselves. Apple used to stream their keynotes and even broadcast them via satellite, but supposedly, this became “too expensive.” Well, that B.S. no longer flies, Mr. Bigger Market Cap Than Microsoft. In fact, it hasn’t flown for many, many years. Apple’s been doing this on the cheap for years and it finally bit them in the ass.
Stop being cheap, Steve.
$40 billion liquid in the bank means that you can hire Akamai or whomever to stream your infomercials, sorry, your “keynotes” and “special events” along with an HD yule log 24/7/365 worldwide to everyone with a screen for the next six and a half centuries. Heck, forget streaming: Comcast just bought a controlling stake in NBC Universal for a mere $13 billion. Imagine, you’d still have $27 billion left and you’d even have some fresh content for your little hobby, too. (wink)
Bottom line: Broadcast your events like you’re supposed to and you can have all the WiFi you need for your demos. If not, you’re either going to want the ‘Net mainlined straight into your 30-pin Dock Connector (that’s your backup, at least; why do I have to tell you this?) or don’t do live demos that depend on wireless connectivity because asking the media to stop doing your job of delivering your event to the world, as you should have been doing all along, isn’t going to work out any better than it did Monday morning. In fact, it’ll almost certainly be worse the next time around. – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, June 8, 2010
SteveJack is a long-time Macintosh user, web designer, multimedia producer and a semi-regular contributor to the MacDailyNews Opinion section who, among other things, basically described the iPhone on December 10, 2002.
Yee haw!
BR-549!
Another first for Apple. And it’s about time. Yee Haw!
An event that I won’t have to read “live” at the event? I can watch it live? No fooling? Yay!!!!
Sweeeet!!!
A sign of things to come? Does Apple have announcements regarding other live streaming capabilities up their sleeve so what better way to showcase it than to do it for the announcement?
Welcome to the WTF.
“Viewing requires either a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard”
It won’t work on my G5 tower?
Well, there’s always my iPhone.
HTTP Live Streaming is only compatible with Quicktime X hence the Snow Leopard and iOS 3 requirement.
PC fools considering user agent switches should buy a mac today
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@YØRK
you took the words out of my mouth…
Guess what I’ll be doing at 1AM Perth time Australia
History seen!
Streaming from NC server farm?
(iHope..)
Nice now I can prop my iPhone up on my desk and actually see what’s going on!!!!! Love it….
they are doing this cause they’re going to put the new server farm online and they want to show that they can handle tons of people watching their stream without hiccups
Wow! This is bigger news than the event itself. Wonder what’s up Apple’s sleeve … it seems like it’s a tad early for wowzer gamechanger new products, feels like late November for that, and February, but we’ll see … this may be last year of iPod before it morphs into versions of iPad …
Showing off their new server farms capabilities?
JerseyTrader just had an orgasm!.
Hope the iTV has a camera for FaceTime, can say hi to family couch potatoes
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Quicktime X
How do you know you have the current version?
Version 10.0 (51)
Funny, I thought of Jersey Trader too lol
A test of the NC Server farm yes, but they will also announce what the server farm will really be used for.
@ hotinplaya:
As long as you have Mac OS X 10.6, you’ll be fine. The specific version isn’t important.
Golly. I hope it works.
Bloggers revenue stream from the event just took a hit.
I wish they’d buy Netflix….did I type that out loud?