Apple continues to refuse acknowledgment of the existence of a heterogeneous computing environment. Many people who do not have access to an Apple computer will not be able to watch the stream. Contrast with Google who stream their keynote on YouTube. So rather than being inclusive, the company is being exclusive.
Yet Tim Cook, with regards to diversity of employees, believes "It's the future of our company... I think the most diverse group will produce the best product, I firmly believe that."[1]
Does Tim Cook not see the irony of his posturing? How can he produce the best products if he and his employees are hired to reject the reality of the technology world around them and enforce isolation rather than encourage interoperability?
[1] http://mashable.com/2015/06/08/tim-cook-apple-diversity-wome...
Which they can if they find the stream address and put it in VLC. It's just HTTP live streaming[0], has been for a few years now. Recent Android device ought be able to understand it as well.
> Contrast with Google who stream their keynote on YouTube. So rather than being inclusive, the company is being exclusive.
Ah yes, the inclusivity of Google putting livestreams on their property, contrasted with the exclusivity of Apple putting livestreams on their property.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming little more than a bunch of video snippets (TS files) linked by a streamed m3u8.
I can't fault them too much because people who are interested in this conference are iOs devs who would presumably need to have a Mac, but i don't appreciate being locked out.
HTTP Live Streaming is supported by more than just Apple devices – it'll work with recent Android devices too, and with VLC / other media players. I wouldn't expect Apple to certify the compatibility of the stream with other devices – sure, it might work, but would you expect them to explain the full gamut of software which might potentially be able to view the stream?
People get awfully worked up about this sort of thing without taking a small step back and thinking about it for a minute. This is not a horrible "let's ignore non-Apple users" conspiracy. It's just explaining the system requirements that Apple is targeting to the expected audience – basically all of whom will be using an Apple device.
It's not hard:
1. Don't outright block all non-Safari browsers out of arrogance.
2. When the stream fails, add to the compat message "…or any other browser that supports HTTP Live Streaming". Might even link to a list like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming#Supported_p...
Getting 2-3 other devices to test on shouldn't be too hard for one of the richest companies in the world.
I choose Windows and Android for various reasons (that I refuse to get into an argument here about), and so I'm completely unable to watch Apple's Keynote? Ridiculous.
By definition, since you only have windows and android devices you're not an Apple developer, and not the target of WWDC.
Further, the technical reason behind this could be rectified by Google and Microsoft if they gave up their NIH stance regarding dynamic web video.
I don't find it surprising in the least that Apple requires you have an Apple device to watch their developer keynote.
The choice is for technical reasons... if Google and others had embraced the technology, then Apple could stream to them.
Instead google and others have a Not Invented Here syndrome. Hell, Chrome which built its popularity on the back of Apple's open source Webkit (yeah yeah, webkit was built on top of an earlier open source framework, nothing wrong with open source) has instead decided to go its own way and forked things.
It's kinda silly to bash Apple like that.
Plus, remember the audience. This is a conference for Apple developers. If you're an Apple developer, surely you have an iPhone or iPad. How else do you test?
And if not, you can always watch the Quicktime / MP4 stream later.
With Apple it's basically: "if you're already in our ecosystem we love you. If you're not, we hate you".
Well, screw you, too, Apple!. I'll happily continue to live outside of your ecosystem then.
Apples "streaming" is just 10 second chunks of video shunted across a m3u playlist. Its not exactly proprietary in that regard.
Also its a developer conference, what are you hoping to see in the live stream that makes you absolutely need to watch it or just abandon using apple products all together? Honestly I can't tell if this is a joke or not anymore on the internet. But I generally don't go into the google dev threads and just gripe about google, ditto microsoft.
Why the hell do we get this much uninformed junk comments on apple threads? Its getting to the point that I think most "social site junk" is really not worth the bother with all the same boring never going to change comments every time.
New York: 1 p.m. EDT
Chicago: 12 p.m. CDT
Honolulu: 7 a.m. HST
London: 6 p.m. BST
Paris: 7 p.m. CEST
Moscow: 9 p.m. MSK
Mumbai: 10:30 p.m. IST
Beijing: 1 a.m. CST
Seoul: 2 a.m. KST
Sydney: 3 a.m. AEST'Our live broadcast begins at 10 a.m. PDT.'
Rather than detecting my location and showing me the local time.
So don't complain if you have problems with it.
Seriously, though, I'm pretty excited. Each year is the worst ever-- kinda like SXSW these days-- to some people. I don't understand where they are coming from. Sure, some years are more fundamental than others... but Apple always has one great thing to announce.
I happened to be there, and in the audience not too far from Steve when he came out and started speaking while a coffin rose up from beneath the stage. Then he opened the coffin and placed a Mac OS 9 box in the Coffin. It was wonderful. (And I was so happy because, unlike the 1980s, I was no longer interested in classic Mac OS.)
My last regular WWDC was in 2003, and I remember being really impressed that they gave out Leather Jackets (thought that was probable 2001, now that I think about it.) Nothing like communing with the mac faithful once a year- back when being a mac developer meant having trouble finding jobs where you actually got to do mac development.
Seriously, I got hired more than once to work on a mac product, only to be shifted over to windows soon after. Consequently, I just stopped learning windows so they wouldn't think I could do it and what I did know became out of date... so I ended up working on Linux instead! But Linux is fine by me.
Once the videos started coming out regularly, it didn't make much sense to go to San Francisco for a week-- $1500 for the conference, $2,500 more all in for hotel and airfare and all that-- a $600 set of DVDs is a much better deal.
But I did go back in 2008 so my partner (we started an iOS development shop) could get the experience and get a first hand education in the just released "iPhone SDK".
One thing that's interesting-- there has been no real rumor about what's going to be released.
I haven't a clue.
And I love it.
Apple's at their best when they surprise. The amount of surprise may not reach some people's expectations...
But this day is more significant to me (as a graybeard adult) than christmas probably ever was.
So, Happy WWDC Keynote Day!
Rest in Peace, Steve!
To some extent, I like how they're explicitly not trying to hold on to Jobs' way of doing things. On the other hand, they're dangerously close in 'dad trying to be cool' territory. I think this is the first keynote where I got that vibe, especially when they got Drake on stage.
Anyone have a good theory as to why they're changing the tone of the keynotes? Or am I seeing something that isn't there?
http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/02/apple-wwdc-windows-android-liv...