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Apple Event Livestream is kind of a disaster
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[Jeremy Garchow] “At $350 it’s Apple’s most expensive toy without a huge benefit to a giant swath of users.”
Well, sort of. iPhone are quite a lot more, but they are subsidized by your phone contract.
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[Oliver Peters] “Well, sort of. iPhone are quite a lot more, but they are subsidized by your phone contract.”
Surely. But there’s a direct “benefit” to having the phone, email, text, camera, music, books, movies, etc and so forth.
For me, personally, not sure if the $350 would be worth it? For a phone, it’s worth it as I use it constantly for many tasks…in my mind, anyway, there’s a big distinction.
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…and in order to use the Watch communication features, you need a phone to go with it.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Just curious, but did you watch any of the videos that surrounded it today, or watch the demo from the product dude?”
When I said I think it looks like an iPod Nano watch w/rounded edges I literally meant I think it *looks* like an iPod Nano watch w/round corners. It was a comment purely on the aesthetics of the thing (that’s all we’ve been talking about anyway). Of course the functional differences between the official Apple Watch and the Nano watch are night and day.
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Streaming Media’s Dan Rayburn on the mess
https://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/09/why-apples-livestream-failed.htmlActually the comments at the bottom are very illuminating.
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No Mac’s mentioned at all at this event- which is no surprise based on the last few years.
Expect another event in late-October for updates to iPads, and any Mac news including Yosemite.
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[Craig Seeman] “Actually the comments at the bottom are very illuminating.”
“Nathan Hubbard • 2 hours ago
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I’m not quite sure Dany Rayburn and Streaming Media post link bait articles. It’s purely speculative but their business is covering the Streaming and Encoding industry and this blog (it’s his blog post and not a researched article) falls into that category.
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[Craig Seeman] “I’m not quite sure Dany Rayburn and Streaming Media post link bait articles. It’s purely speculative but their business is covering the Streaming and Encoding industry and this blog (it’s his blog post and not a researched article) falls into that category.”
I thought it seemed a little drastic, too.
It seems that no one really knows what happened.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It seems that no one really knows what happened.”
We may have to follow the Apple Job Openings to get a better picture 😉There’s some pretty entertaining press about the stream today.
From the Higher Ed niche
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/apples-live-stream-debacle-and-edtechNY Times
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/apples-live-streaming-is-terrible/TUAW references the Streaming Media blog
https://www.tuaw.com/2014/09/10/why-apples-live-video-stream-was-a-complete-bust/Huff Post
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09/apple-livestream-fail_n_5792090.htmlNews.com Australia
https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/apple-live-stream-and-u2-fail-leaves-fans-frustrated/story-fn6vihic-1227054007978Business Insider also refs Streaming Media blog
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-apple-live-stream-failed-during-iphone-6-launch-2014-9The Guardian covers the response on Twitter
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/09/applelive-how-twitter-reacted-when-apples-live-stream-didnt-go-to-plan?TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/09/apple-livestream-translation/International Business Times and Twitter
https://www.ibtimes.com/apple-iphone-announcement-marred-live-stream-issues-chinese-interpreter-1683128ZDnet
If Apple can’t stream an iPhone 6 event, is there really an enterprise story?
https://www.zdnet.com/if-apple-cant-stream-an-iphone-6-event-is-there-really-an-enterprise-story-7000033499/Forbes attacks from a few perspectives
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2014/09/10/apple-iphone-6-launch-event-technical-issues-and-a-huge-missed-opportunity/Wall Street Journal
https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/09/09/apples-iphone-6-live-stream-fail/Thus ends a great moment in Apple’s “don’t hold it that way” reliability 😉
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