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Does Apple have an official channel or website with these videos? If so this is more justified. If not, it's good the dev still has them. I don't understand wh
by armchairhacker 4y ago
Does Apple have an official channel or website with these videos? If so this is more justified. If not, it's good the dev still has them.
I don't understand why companies would want to erase their history, and I don't think it actually happens often (more like, people just forget history naturally). A company's history doesn't hurt their reputation unless it's particularly bad (like United Fruit). And Apple's history is great: Steve Jobs may have been a dick, but Apple has produced amazing products and ignited trends like the personal computer and touchscreen phone. And despite what some people here say, I don't think they're getting much worse (see: Apple M1, iOS still way better than Android, my experience with macOS and other products is that they honestly work really well).
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- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoI don’t have a source, but I remember someone talking about how it’s policy at Apple to scrub as much old ads and marketing materials from the internet as soon as they become outdated. Good luck finding that old iPhone 5s ad that makes that phone look really attractive - the point is for us to only want for the newest one. I’m not so sure that I agree - history is written, memory is subjective etc.
- DaiPlusPlus 4y agoMeanwhile I can still download Windows 3.11 from Microsoft's MSDN Subscription Downloads site. It's still useful too: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ --------- ...though Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, and 2000, and the original release of Visual Studio 6, are all absent because of the Sun lawsuit, which prohibited all distribution of Microsoft software that contained Microsoft's opinionated Java VM - and all "J++" tooling. This even extends internally: when I was working at Microsoft I had to get special-clearance to have an admin-asssistant get me Windows 2000 burned to a CD-R so I could run Windows 2000 just so I could take screenshots of an obscure Office 2000 product for a presentation for a meeting that got cancelled. It would have been quicker just to RDP in to my home VM server and booted off my own pirated Windows 2000 ISOs lol.
- runlevel1 4y agoMicrosoft is also pretty bad about removing their own videos, though. You can get a sense of that by looking at their YouTube playlists: Keynotes: (5 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_BxpkRjFhX57V-5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_Bx... Commercials: (21 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoPjYljfedxrA04 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoP... Microsoft's Unboxed series: (15 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_DymUkvavtYZQ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_... I do applaud them for keeping their old software available, though. And at least they don't seem to go after others' channels. At least as far as I'm aware.
- HKH2 4y ago"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
- mrpippy 4y agoNo, these videos were only available on CDs or DVDs sold through Apple's developer programs in the 90s/2000s.
- runlevel1 4y agoApple has a Podcast with the keynotes, but it only goes back to 2007: RSS: https://applehosted.podcasts.apple.com/apple_keynotes/apple_keynotes.xml https://applehosted.podcasts.apple.com/apple_keynotes/apple_...
- TheHappyOddish 4y agoIt's a fairly big step from "remove copyright material from a competitors site uploaded by an unauthorized source" to "erasing history".