Really?
Edit: Downvotes are fine, but a counterargument would be more welcomed. There are dozens of live streaming services out there now that support every platform available, but Apple always insists on using their own. It backfires every year as the stream is flaky or has audio/video sync issues.
If they can't bring themselves to partner with someone else, they could at least devote the resources to fixing their own broken system.
The numbers I could find are 1.3 million viewers for this year's Super Bowl, 1.7 million for USA vs Germany in the FIFA World Cup, and 81.000 simultaneous viewers for the Macworld keynote, in 2002 (https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/01/09Apple-Delivers-Re...)
I think it is safe to bet that Apple's keynotes have a larger audience nowadays than in 2002, but how large is it? Reading http://www.scribblelive.com/press-release/record-breaking-on..., I do not rule out that it has more viewers than that Super Bowl stream, which, Google and my own experience tell me, wasn't perfect, either.
So, maybe, limiting this to Safari users is their best option.
Feel free to improve this speculative line of thought by providing data.
[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2yfqyj/watch_the_appl...
If you are wondering, like I just did, why it's supported on Android but not Chrome: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=54198#c1...
Usually some people will post source links which should be streamable from non-mac machines.
The rest of the stuff in the keynotes—the stuff that makes them keynotes, rather than ads—only matters to Apple developers. And I'm not sure how you'd be an Apple developer without already being able to watch this. (Even if you only develop HTML5 webapps for iOS, that still means you've got an iOS test device.)
Edit: they just applauded and whooped that Apple won't see your data! WTF! Well done Apple, you're not invading our privacy!
That's actually pretty rare these days. Especially in the UK.
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.
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.
I don't get it.
Is this to do with insurance? But now there's no "prior condition" issue, so why is my medical data still sensitive?
Right now there isn't, as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the party controlling the Congressional majority has repeatedly committed to repealing in its totality (and has voted repeatedly to do) and is actively backing repeated challenges to through the courts.
Policies can change, and information that is made public in a time of favorable policy can't retroactively be made unpublic to protect it from abuse when that policy changes.
Further, insurance discrimination isn't the only area where harmful (economically or otherwise) discrimination on the basis of medical information is a concern, and while there may be some areas where this is restricted by law, people can break laws and pursuing legal remedies is an after the fact solution that is neither guaranteed effective nor free of its own costs, but people can't discriminate based on information they don't have.
I'm not sure nothing is more sensitive than your medical data, but it's definitely sensitive.
Medical data discloses your sex, drinking, smoking, drug, and physical habits, along with any mental issues, genetic pre-dispositions, where you live, who your family are, where you have worked, etc. With only a little inference you can get financial information from a person's medical records.
TLDR;
• Financial records are designed to track accurate exchanges of money.
• Medical records are designed to keep an accurate representation of you. The goal is explicitly more personal.
To make the MacBook fanless, it seems that they have put in a slower processor, ditched spindle drives all together, and most likely opted for integrated graphics. Again, these are just guesses. :)
Copied and pasted:
So it says on the Apple website that only OSX Safari works and any Apple handheld. No Windows devices are compatible straight off the bat (like how it's been for all this time)
An easy workaround is this:
Download VLC Player from here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html[1]
Install it and everything, make sure it works correctly.
Open the program. Click on Media (top left) > Open Network Stream.
You will see this screen: http://puu.sh/bqV9o.png
Paste this link into that field: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1503ohibasdvoihbasfdv/live/8500/8500.m3u8?x-sessionIt might work---or you might find that reloading the page, you're offered new URLs.
That's pretty terrible, it instantly turned me off :(
However, fewer ports is the future and most devices are available wireless. Furthermore the MBA is not really supposed to be a stationary computer.
Hopefully the dust will settle and prices stabilize, lower.
I like the choice that roku gives me, and doesn't tie me to any specific media store.
Verge: http://live.theverge.com/apple-watch-macbook-liveblog-march-...
Gizmodo: http://live.gizmodo.com/our-apple-watch-liveblog-starts-righ...
Tech Crunch: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/apple-watch-event-live-blog...
CNET: http://live.cnet.com/Event/Apples_March_9_event
Ars Technica: http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-march-9-spring-forward-ev...
Re/Code: http://recode.net/2015/03/08/liveblog-its-time-for-the-apple...
WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/09/apple-watch-spring-fo...
Cult of Mac: http://www.cultofmac.com/314636/apple-watch-event-liveblog/
However the video was a bit cringe worthy, wearing a display of wealth while "helping" the poor and downtrodden. Combined with the worst of over night advertising phrasing.
Yeah, I am not a fan, but this came off way too much late night TV ad style than I what I normally associate with Apple.
> Christy Turlington Burns is running by a giraffe in this video, but she can't see it because she's staring at the coach on her wrist.
> Apple has reached the "forced fake Q&A with celebrities" portion of its keynote lifecycle.
> I'm just saying that you could put this part of the event directly into any Samsung event, and it would be exactly the same.
1) battery life: The length of a day for apple is 9/10 hours
2) performance: Lemma, when apple is discreet on one aspect of things, assume the worst. I don't recall hearing anything on the performance of the amazing, all 'new macbook'.
http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1503ohibasd...