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Apple Special Event (Sept 2017)
- ramshanker 9y agoChrome: Your browser doesn’t support live streaming of the event. So which one support it?
- supermdguy 9y agoSafari? :)
- supermdguy 9y agoJust saw this at the bottom > Requirements: Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 9.0 or later, a Mac with Safari on macOS v10.11 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Streaming via Apple TV requires an Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation) with software 6.2 or later or an Apple TV (4th generation).
- nailer 9y agoEdge or Safari
- askafriend 9y agoThese events are like clockwork. You've got to ride out the unsubstantiated pessimism and outrage before you can have a healthy, reasonable, productive discussion about Apple and their role in technology and the world. That's the price of admission for being such a cultural and economic force I suppose. I for one, am incredibly excited. Their last keynote was packed with stuff, and it seems this one will be too. Lots to dissect. Off the top of my head: iPhone, HomePod, Apple Watch, Apple TV, iOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS public releases, updates on their new APIs like ARKit/CoreML, and whatever else they have up their sleeve.
- LMYahooTFY 9y agoAre there particular views you see trending that are unsubstantiated? I don't know why being pessimistic should matter.
- Nuance 9y agoThe main ones are that innovation has rotted and quality has slipped after Steve Jobs.
- nailer 9y agoHonestly the new iPhone's main design - the screen occupying most of the front - is a continuation of something Samsung took mainstream in the S6 Edge, S7 and S8. I love iOS and the iPhone but I do feel things slowing down.
- askafriend 9y agoBeing pessimistic isn't the problem in and of itself...at least not if you're willing to have a reasonable discussion around the topic and back up your views in some respectable manner. There are entirely valid reasons why you may not like Apple's ethos, Apple's products, or even just specific decisions Apple has made in the past. It's the blind rage and almost meme-like pessimism that always seems to surround big Apple events that I'm talking about though. It's in part because people just love being angry, in part because people like the "wars" and taking sides, and in part because the media absolutely loves to get clicks by perpetuating the outrage. It's almost the perfect tsunami of emotions when you consider that Apple is immensely popular and has been on top for a long time which in and of itself amplifies everything. I mean you can go back and look at the MacRumors forum threads for every single Apple keynote in the past two decades - no joke - and you'll find hilariously consistent discussion patterns. It's to the point where you can make a very accurate bingo game about the topic of people's outrage without even knowing what the announcements are. You just gotta ride it out and wait for things to settle to have any real discussion.
- hota_mazi 9y agoPacked with stuff maybe, but utterly boring and conventional. I'd trade all these announcements for just one that's actually innovative and a sign that Apple is back to being about innovating rather than milking ten year old franchises. Here's to hoping that the highlight will not be a new iPad, iPhone or a laptop.
- usaphp 9y agoI really hope they release some ar glasses or something. I've been working on the arkit since they announced it and I can't express enough how excited I am about AR.
- synaesthesisx 9y agoPerhaps this will be the "Big Bang" for consumer AR that everyone has been hoping for. Whatever they have up their sleeves, I genuinely have a feeling it's going to be big this year. Institutional investment in Apple is at an all time high as well. Perhaps they know what's coming as well...
- burger_moon 9y agoAmazon and Google both have the voice devices as well which have been very successful so perhaps they're launching a similar product. I'm definitely hoping for something AR though.
- adamnemecek 9y agoDoes anyone legit use the voice assistants?
- jvolkman 9y agoI don't know whether I'm legit, but I use my Google Home all the time (and my Echo on rare occasions).
- burger_moon 9y agoA lot of my coworkers rave about echo and google home products. I didn't like those. I bought an android phone recently and have been using 'ok google' quite a bit. I think I like using the 'ok google' thing because I say something then i can look at my phone and confirm. The mix of audio and visual makes it useful for myself.
- NathanWilliams 9y ago
- jamesrom 9y agoIn events gone by, Apple has hidden little hints or easter eggs in their invitations. I can't help but see a blurry MacBook through the Apple. Like it's some kind of looking glass...
- Waterluvian 9y agoApple resurrects Looking Glass Studios. System Shock 3 confirmed Mac exclusive?
- m_mueller 9y agoOuch, that reminds me of Halo...
- hartator 9y agoLet's hope! It can be also 2 iPhones.
- mturmon 9y agoHints at infrared face detection to me.
- synicalx 9y ago"lol jk it's actually just a 12 foot long Touch Bar"
- letalvoj 9y agoWell, colorful iPhones? Like the iPhone 5c?
- splitbrain 9y ago> Requirements: Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. So this event is only intended for people who already are Apple customers? MS Edge as the only other way seems very weird. How common is this HLS thing, what would be the more open alternative and what advantages do they believe HLS has over it?
- Osmium 9y agoThis question is asked literally every time there's an Apple event :) HTTP Live Streaming streams can be viewed with VLC. It's also a open standard[0] (though not yet a formal standard); it's not proprietary. [0] https://developer.apple.com/streaming/ https://developer.apple.com/streaming/
- parasubvert 9y agoHLS has been around a long time (8 years), and is pretty widely supported. There is an internet draft describing how the protocol works. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
- unicornporn 9y agoIt's a placeholder page for an event with nothing but a date. It's twelve days left. It's on the top of the front page. This is too contemporary.
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- jamesrom 9y agoIt's news.
- hoodoof 9y agoThis event will prove whether or not Apple really is serious about keeping Macintosh fresh and not stagnant. I'm not yet convinced that their recent claims that "Mac matters" will be maintained in the long or even medium term.
- zippergz 9y agoThe fall event is always about iOS.
- hoodoof 9y agoThat's my point. So much is about iOS - it's the first class citizen.
- saagarjha 9y agoAccording to rumors this will be primarily an iPhone/Apple Watch/Apple TV event…so make of it what you will.
- Nuance 9y agoWhy wasn't their Mac segment in the WWDC keynote convincing?
- arthurfm 9y agoNo new Mac minis? [1] With the lacklustre performance of the Late 2014 models [2] it has effectively been 1774 days (4 years, 10 months, 9 days) since they were last updated. [1] https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Mini https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Mini [2] http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/mac-mini-aluminum-unibody-faq/mac-mini-aluminum-late-2014-performance-comparison.html http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/mac-mini-alum... Compared to the "Late 2012" Mac mini models, the "Late 2014" Mac mini models are between 1% and 9% faster in single core tasks but between 5% and 43% slower in multicore tasks
- dang 9y agoAn announcement of an announcement, the most off-topic kind of offtopicness. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20announcement%22&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20an...
- simplexion 9y agofrothing at mouth
- letalvoj 9y agoWhy is there the Czech national flag in the Apple logo?
- letalvoj 9y agoI always loved the announcements back in the Jobs era. Nowadays, even though they try hard, it just misses the magic.