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Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event
Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. 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™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.
Limiting the stream to Apple devices is a nice touch.
I doubt Apple's decision to live stream this particular event means it's extra special. I doubt this specific event had anything to do with the decision at all. Rather, I tend to think Apple was going to do this whenever they felt they were ready, or got over whatever objections they've had to it in the past. I guess that time's come.
On the other hand, if video streaming to a new Apple TV (both rumored) is announced tomorrow, then the event streaming—using, I presume, the same technology—could serve as a "live demo" of that technology. Nice marketing.
Unless it fails, my expectation is that Apple will live stream events from now on.
iPad Rollout In Education Encounters DRM Hell
This is a hole in Apple's App Store infrastructure that the massive interest in iPads for education is exposing, in a way that the iPhone and iPod touch never did.
Good article on a major obstacle for rolling out iPads in the education market.
Slow, bloated, crashing...
…iTunes is in desperate need of an overhaul… and the iTunes platform itself is derided by many as slow and prone to crashes.
If that's all it took to require an overhaul, Microsoft Office would be on its fifth overhaul right now.
Why is it when people deride software as "slow", "bloated", "crashes", etc., their complaints always come with a raft of feature requests, as if the latter don't contribute heavily to the former?
Video of Green Day on the iPad: Everything worthwhile has already been invented
for a guy like Steve Jobs, when is enough, enough.
They sum up at the end by saying "In short, the iPad is stupid".
I don't care if they like the device, and their concerns on what Apple has "done" to the music industry are shared by many "old style" artists (i.e., those that started when physical media still ruled). I disagree, and think things would be much worse had Apple and others not provided a legal alternative for what was going to happen anyway, but I respect their opinion on it.
I also disagree that people are buying an iPad to figure out WTF it is. On the contrary, I believe people are buying an iPad because, once they actually use one, it's immediately obvious what it is.
What I most take exception to is the "when is enough, enough" question. To me, there's a massive shortsightedness in your views on technology when the crux of your argument is that somehow we've gone far enough with it, and apparently we can just stop now. Do these guys feel the same way about music?
Why I, and so many others, love Apple customer service
Apple Details iPad's File Sharing Feature
How-to procedures, and answering a few questions.
What I like best is that files are transferred to/from the device immediately (i.e., no sync is required).
No Predictions, Just Observations on the Apple Tablet
Tomorrow is the big day, and by noon PT all will be revealed. I'm tossing my $.02 in the ring with some general observations about what Apple will announce. I'm not getting into detailed predictions -- better men than I have failed miserable at guessing what Apple will do -- but rather some overall comments I have after absorbing hype for the last few weeks.
Don't Tell Me Steve Jobs Doesn't Love Music
CNN Money has a collection of a dozen photographs of Steve Jobs that show their "CEO of the Decade" in a more unusual light.
The above photo is #4 in the series, and my favorite by far. Anyone who doubts Jobs' proclaimed love of music -- a love that helped Apple build the iPod/iTunes ecosystem -- need only look to this photo as proof they're wrong.
Visit the link above to see all 12 photos.
USB Standards Group to Palm: Knock it off, hacks.
Usage of any other company’s Vendor ID is specifically precluded. Palm’s expressed intent to use Apple’s VID appears to violate the attached policy.
This is exactly what Palm should have expected, and what others had predicted. It was a silly tack all along, and the USB standards body was right to slam them for it.
When reached for comment, Palm said "We hoped the standards group would cover our ass; we haven't the expertise to write software as good as iTunes, and even if we did we haven't the time until we go bankrupt. We slung around words like "freedom" and "open" and "choice", hoping for some kind of Apple-basher backlash to support our hack, but the Pre is just too sucky and we didn't get it. Now I don't now what we're gonna do." The spokesperson then sobbed uncontrollably.
NOTE: The above paragraph is fiction. To my knowledge no Palm spokesperson actually said that (I bet more than a few were thinking it, though).
