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Whenever I watch the Apple WWDC keynote, and I hear the handful of enthusiastic screams from the audience when Tim Cook announces some new feature, I always won
by clamprecht 9y ago
Whenever I watch the Apple WWDC keynote, and I hear the handful of enthusiastic screams from the audience when Tim Cook announces some new feature, I always wonder if those are genuine or not. They just don't seem real. Like 99% of people watching, I've never attended in person, so it's hard to tell.
- hkmurakami 9y agoAny operator of such announcements know that seeding a crowd is highly effective. You don't need all of the screams to be planted -- 5-10% should be enough.
- quux 9y agoThe front rows at Apple's keynotes are usually reserved for Apple employees and often this includes the teams that built the products that are being announced. So the excitement is genuine, but from Apple employees, not random attendees.
- sbisker 9y agoI showed up very late to an Apple keynote about 10 years back, and was grabbed while walking in by some staffer to sit in a third row seat. I had no affiliation with Apple; I assume I was picked because I "looked the part" (which was, apparently, a college aged nerdy computer science student). So yeah, I'm sure it's mostly Apple employees, with randoms like myself thrown in here to make the crowd shots less homogenous.