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Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT
- berberous 11y agoAnybody have a tip on how to watch on Windows 7?
- bthrn 11y agoOpen this network stream with VLC: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1603kjbnadcpjhbasdvpjbasdvpjb/m3u8/hls_mvp.m3u8 http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1603kjbnadc...
- tux1968 11y agoThank you. Why wouldn't they just put this on their website? Crazy that they make it so uninviting for so many people.
- mtgx 11y agoAs with anything Apple, it's like that by design.
- doodpants 11y agoThank you for this. I would otherwise have had to watch the event on my iPhone. Just curious, how did you find this?
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- netinstructions 11y agoI'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple. It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016. Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?
- nabaraz 11y agoInteresting that Edge is allowed to stream. PS: Wiki [1] says Apples's HTTP live streaming is supported on Chrome 30 and onwards. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
- netinstructions 11y agoI checked that too. It's supported on Chrome 30 and onwards, but not for Chrome on desktop OSes.
- jayflux 11y agoIsn't it more to do with safari doesn't run on Windows? So Apple need to officially support a Windows browser as to not exclude all those windows users
- marklawrutgers 11y agoThey use some sort of proprietary streaming .hls that for some reason doesn't support third-party browsers (DRM?) and Microsoft supports it but only wants it to be available in their Edge browser.
- elsurudo 11y agoIt's not that proprietary. FFMpeg supports creating these streams – I once created an encoding pipeline using HLS for a gig. The idea behind the tech is pretty good. But yeah, browser support is very poor – I had to use a Flash fallback for browsers that didn't support it (which was basically everything but Safari at the time... looks like that sadly still hasn't changed). At the time it was the best thing for the job, but I haven't done anything with video lately. What would be the best tool for the job these days? Regarding browsers support, etc.
- TD-Linux 11y agoYou can still use it via Javascript that repackages the MPEG-TS into MP4 files. However, DASH or a similar home-rolled solution could potentially avoid the repackaging.
- nabaraz 11y agoEdit - doesn't work on Chrome 49 --------------------------------- Non safari users, you can change your user agent to Safari for live stream. Chrome extension- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg/related?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche... Firefox extension- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-sw...
- azefiel 11y agoWorks on Edge...
- rayiner 11y agoBig reveal: robots will now do the dirty work of recycling iPhones, instead of Bangladeshi children.
- inspector-g 11y agoI think this is showing another benefit of focusing on a smaller number of products and controlling their development from (virtually) top-to-bottom. Apple has such a limited number of products that they can build robots to disassemble said products piece-by-piece, which is arguably a more efficient manner to recycle individual parts. Other companies that have a zillion products would likely find it difficult to achieve the same level of efficiency, because they basically have to "shred" their products and sort the bits out later. EDIT: Do you have a source on Apple using "Bangladeshi children" for disassembly before today?
- rayiner 11y agoI doubt Apple does that for its official recycling program. But I also doubt most iPhones are recycled through the official program (though I can't find statistics).
- masklinn 11y agoOTOH a great way to reduce waste is to make products repairable and upgradable, which is something Apple keeps moving away from, especially on popular products.
- emdowling 11y agoNot really. The products aren't upgradable or repairable by the end user, but as they demonstrated today, they are upgradeable (to brand new things like solar panels) and repairable by Apple themselves. I for one hate the idea of an end-user upgradeable smart phone. That sounds like a minefield of driver issues and the like that I just don't want. Its why I moved away from Windows in the first place. I think it makes a great deal of sense to consolidate the upgrades and repairs - they can do it far more efficiently at scale.
- ubercow 11y agoFor those who aren't in a position to watch the video, Ars Technica is doing their usual live blog http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-march-2016-event/ http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-march-2016-event/
- andreis_ 11y agoThe Verge: https://live.theverge.com/apple-iphone-se-ipad-pro-event-live-blog/ https://live.theverge.com/apple-iphone-se-ipad-pro-event-liv... MacRumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/21/live-coverage-iphone-se-ipad-pro-event/ http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/21/live-coverage-iphone-se-... TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/liveblog-apple-event-keynote-iphone-se-ipad-pro-spring-2016/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/liveblog-apple-event-keynot...
- t_fatus 11y agoYour browser doesn’t support live streaming of the event. Seriously Apple ... 'Apple refuses to stream on your browser' would be a better message
- benjaminl 11y agoApple uses a live streaming variant of HLS to stream their events. Since HLS is basically an Apple proprietary protocol it isn't well supported on other platforms. Apple in one of their previous press events enabled support for the Microsoft Edge browser.
- mcintyre1994 11y agoOn Safari on OSX and I'm just getting the "starting at 10am PDT" message, anybody else?
- sabertoothed 11y agoI found that keynote terribly disappointing and uninspired. I had really hoped for Apple that they show something new and innovative - instead of two smaller versions of existing products. EDIT: I did not mean that in an Apple-bashing way. But I wonder what Elon Musk would come up with if he had time and - let's say - 100 billion USD at his disposal.
- beachwood23 11y agoI agree. There was little sign of the old Apple Arrogance that paved new product lines and pushed tech forward. Instead, the presentation explicitly mentioned several times that they only released these products because "customers asked for them." As Steve Jobs famously said, "customers don't know what they want." This change of motivation in their product development is a significant one.
- parasubvert 11y agoSteve Jobs never said that, or at least it's easily to misinterpret. Here's what he said: "But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." (Businessweek, 1998) The point is that Apple is VERY concerned about what customers want, and listen to customers, and usually achieves that through an engine of incremental improvement once the product is out there. They just don't believe in a focus-group approach to new products. Secondly, the current internet meme is that Apple needs to slow down and make their products more stable. Yet we still want our innovation "drug hit" from their announcements. This is hard to balance.
- imglorp 11y ago> As Steve Jobs famously said, "customers don't know what they want." This change of motivation in their product development is a significant one. I wonder... What visionary, long term, skunkworks projects did Steve initiate into the pipeline before he fell ill? It should be safe to assume there were a number of secret exploratory rods into the fire, if the end of his career there was similar to the rest of it. Some should be emerging from dev right around now. Where are they now and why aren't we seeing them? Did Steve run out of ideas? Or did they all get mothballed in favor of safer alternatives?
- JonCox 11y agoNo updated MacBook Pro? That's annoying. I was rather hoping for a small refresh to include the new Skylake processors, it's certainly due one: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac
- twoodfin 11y agoI think one of two things is true: - There's no big redesign planned this year, and the Macbook and Macbook Pro will see press-release releases with updated guts (most notably Skylake) before too long. - There is a significant redesign of the Macbook Pro coming up, and it'll be announced at WWDC.
- phaser 11y agoI hope number 2 ends up to be true, but most likely number one. Phil Schiller described the ipad pro as "The ultimate replacement for the PC", and that means Apple is all-in for replacing the laptop in the mass market, while also very convenient for profits since their closed hardware will only run an OS and Apps signed by Apple, with only one store to buy Software. They don't have an incentive to support open computing, and for the first time in years IBM and Microsoft have better products (Carbon X1, Surface book) while OSX haven't seen a major update and MacBook Pros that once were the best professional laptops are really past generation hardware and software.
- swombat 11y agoYeah, dammit! I would basically have bought an MBPR 15" right away if they'd released one....
- epicureanideal 11y agoI was literally planning to order one as soon as it became available on apple.com, but oh well...
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- amiadsoto 11y agoMost boring apple keynote ever. Seriously.
- riscy 11y agoI cringed every time they kept trying to emphasize the night hue mode as if it is innovative... they explicitly removed two apps from the store that added the feature in the past just to try and profit from an old idea.
- jonpaine 11y agoA big part of Apple's product appeal is the ecosystem, and a big part of the ecosystem is that amazing features simply work, and work well. They don't have to be configured or hunted for. Taken a step further, the problems some of these new features solve don't even have to be fully apparent to the user. To that end, Apple improves their ecosystem by making good features standard. Tim Cook mentioned that there were 1 billion Apple devices in circulation. How many of those do you think have users that were even aware of the existence of those two apps? Or even the problem that they address? I'm not a fan of any bigCo squashing innovative software (and I'm certainly not defending it), but there's no question that in cases like this bringing that feature into the fold leads to a better user experience across the board. To those of us who knew the circumstances it might be cringeworthy, but for the other 98% of users it's just another advance in a progression of features that keeps the ecosystem's user-experience better than any other.
- riscy 11y ago> Apple improves their ecosystem by making good features standard. Only if you buy their latest devices. Case in point: I just updated to iOS 9.3 for the hue feature and I come to find out (by the fine print on their website) that it's not available for iPhone 5 users for no reason other than to force upgrades. If they handled the Flux app situation fairly I wouldn't need to buy a new phone for such a simple but important feature.
- jonpaine 11y agoI don't disagree with you. I'm not being an Apple apologist, just commenting why from their viewpoint it makes sense to bring the very best features into the fold of standard, native, functionality.
- Wintamute 11y ago༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give Skylake MBP
- romanovcode 11y agoWhat a horrible keynote. There was literally nothing new, just the same products, only smaller.