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As someone from the UK I can never watch a stream like this because of all the whooping in the audience. They just whooped and cheered at an announcement to cap
by colinramsay 12y ago
As someone from the UK I can never watch a stream like this because of all the whooping in the audience. They just whooped and cheered at an announcement to capture your gait for medical purposes; I mean as a whole the potential is exciting but does each individual pause warrant this kind of chest-beating?
Edit: they just applauded and whooped that Apple won't see your data! WTF! Well done Apple, you're not invading our privacy!
- slg 12y agoA lot of the people at the event (and the most likely source for the cheers) are Apple employees. This presentation serves as both a consumer product introduction and a company pep rally. EDIT: Just to clarify since I got some early downvotes, this isn't some conspiracy that Apple secretly pays plants in the audience to cheer. It is a known fact that select Apple employees are invited to these keynotes and generally take up the first several rows of the audience.
- derefr 12y agoI don't think it's the consumers, or the Apple employees, that do this cheering. It's the app developers whose livelihoods depend on the Apple platform. Cheer that your privacy isn't invaded? Nah. Cheer that you built an API that doesn't invade privacy? Nah again. Cheer that you can make an easy no-work guarantee that you won't be invading your user's privacy if you use API X in your app, and that this is a competitive advantage against the apps on other platforms that users have to trust individually? Sure.
- muglug 12y ago"As someone from the UK"? Have you ever been to a football match?
- colinramsay 12y agoYou're comparing a football match to a technology keynote?
- cmelbye 12y agoYou said you were unable to watch because you were from the UK. Are you not familiar with applause or something? I don't see the connection to where you live.
- Zikes 12y agoBrits are stereotypically more reserved, except where football is concerned.
- chc 12y agoEh, one is a bunch of avid fans getting excited at a great move by their favorite team and the other is a football game.
- sgustard 12y agoOr watched a Parliament meeting?
- uptown 12y ago"Well done Apple, you're not invading our privacy!" That's actually pretty rare these days. Especially in the UK.
- CyberMuz 12y agoI totally agree! It reminds me of laugh tracks on bad sitcoms. Every sentence is cheered by the audience.