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1m people are watching the main stream live on youtube concurrently. wild. any idea how this compares to previous WWDC's?
by swyx 3y ago
1m people are watching the main stream live on youtube concurrently. wild. any idea how this compares to previous WWDC's?
- rstupek 3y agoI'm not on YouTube so I wonder what the global audience for the keynote really is
- cassianoleal 3y agoLikewise. Watching on Apple TV.
- VincentEvans 3y agoNot replying to you specifically, but… lol, why watch this? Its a an infomercial ad selling a product.
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- rcarmo 3y agoBecause it’s a highly impactful product (any of them) that impacts the lives of millions, and the showmanship (however plastified these days) is legendary and attracts people. I wouldn’t call it a SuperBowl-level event, it’s actually bigger-we used to band together in the office to watch them (at the end of the day here in Europe) in every tech company I worked in.
- cassianoleal 3y agoI have a Macbook, an iPhone and an iPad. They shown a lot of what's coming on for these products's OSs in the near future. They're not _selling_ any of that to me in the sense that I'm not paying any extra as they're free upgrades. I like to know what's going to change. It's similar to reading the KDE newsletter, or the Linux kernel stuff to know what's new and how I might benefit from it or have to adapt to it. Aside from that, they were presenting a whole new product, very different from any other products in the same-ish niche. I also watched the Sony PSVR2 announcements, and recently the Meta Quest 3 launch videos. I find it interesting. Why wouldn't I watch it?
- swyx 3y agoim watching in a group stream on discord. definitely an undercount of how many people are tuning in live all told. this is a superbowl level event