Apple Webcast?

[MacRumors]

joed reports that Apple's streaming url (http://stream.apple.akadns.net/) had reflected the Monday Event -- at least temporarily -- and stated:

"Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs present announcements from the Moscone Center in San Francisco that will be music to your ears. See the MPEG-4 webcast presentation right here exclusively in QuickTime . It's an event you don't want to miss."

The url no longer brings up a page, and no official Apple announcement has been made of an official Webcast.

[szark]

Well, I'll definitely be checking in Monday morning to see if this Quicktime stream will happen.

Oh, no! I just remembered I have a doctor appointment Monday morning. Looks like I won't get to see it anyway. :(

[mac15]

Well someone earlier on said, there never do a satellite broadcast without a QT Stream. Hopefully its on when I'm not at school

[joed]

It didn't say when it started and how long it went for.

Does anyone know?

I heard 10am start somewhere.

I'm going to have to get up really earlier to watch this one (being in Australia and all). I was so excited when I say it :)


James.

[richie]

Hrmm, stay up till 3am to watch broadcast vs sleep so as to be alert at uni the next day..

I think I know what I'll be doing :D

[szark]

Originally posted by joed
It didn't say when it started and how long it went for.

Well, the start time would be the same as the satellite broadcast:

Monday, April 28, 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT


As for how long, it depends on how many things they have to announce! :D

[sebimeyer]

I also heard that the Apple Stores are showing it live. I have still to call them but I assume that they will do it as it won't be during peak hours anyway.

Good thing the semester is over and I have nothing else to do. :D

[Windowlicker]

once again, Finland rules! the possible web broadcast will start here at 8pm :) perfect timing! there's no way I wouldn't be watching this!

[iGav]

Originally posted by Windowlicker
once again, Finland rules! the possible web broadcast will start here at 8pm :) perfect timing! there's no way I wouldn't be watching this!

Not as good time as London.... heh-heh.... :p

Actually I love the live streams... sitting with a chilled beer, glued to my screen in anticipation of all the new Apple goodies!!

Wicked!!

[madforrit]

Hmm, I may have missed something, but why would this event be streaming from the Moscone Center?

That's where MWSF is held and where WWDC will be held in June, but I was unaware there was anything going on there on Monday that SJ would make an appearance at. Would Apple just rent out a room at Moscone for a press conference or something???

update -- checked the Moscone events calendar...nothing.

[mstecker]

Originally posted by madforrit
Hmm, I may have missed something, but why would this event be streaming from the Moscone Center?


My guess is that it's a cut-and-paste typo on someone's part. Why rent out Moscone do do a private announcement? Surely Apple has the facilities to do this. Heck, Steve probably has the facilities to do this at home.

[melchior]

Originally posted by mstecker
My guess is that it's a cut-and-paste typo on someone's part. Why rent out Moscone do do a private announcement? Surely Apple has the facilities to do this. Heck, Steve probably has the facilities to do this at home.

steve with a black mock-turtle neck - and no pants

[polyesterlester]

Well, the press invitations say that the event is in San Francisco, not Cupertino, so I bet it is in a room at the Moscone...

[a9mike]

Steve owns a black mock-turtle neck? Didn't know that... hmph... I knew his house would have an area suitable to pull this off, but a black mock-turtle neck? Wow!

It's not posted on the Moscone events calendar? Oh no, maybe it won't happen...

Uh, I think Apple can pretty much do what they need to there, without having it on the monthly calendar.

The announcement probably didn't make the monthly deadline for the "newsletter/calendar".

[silvergunuk]

wouldnt it be great?! they can broadcast this new online music service with steve jobs cycling onto the stage in body hugging sweat pants listening to his ipod. He gets off his bike and brings Mike Levy onto the stage. Jobs can play Ian his co presenter and they can talk about a brand new music service that will revolutionist the music industry....you can have steve jobs sitting down at the computer showing mike levy how its done. Mike levy then has a go cycling through itunes options saying "I'm doing it! I'm doing it!". That would be great...plus it could still make us laugh in many years to come..take note stevey boy and make this announment an enjoyable 1. :)

[sandsl]

The press conference has been a secret upto a few days ago...its not going to be put on a calendar or mentioned in a newsletter :confused:

[a9mike]

my point exactly...

Pretty sure they can get "permission" whenever they need it.

[KLFloyd]

Ok, here's what I can't figure out...

If Apple is going to have a QT stream, then why are they not promoting in anyway on their website? If they are having a stream wouldn't they want people to know it was available. I understand that they don't want to tip their hand but if they are having a strem, how are people suposed to know to watch?

Just doesn't seem to make sence to me. And why would they create a page for the event, then suddenly take it down. If there was no stream why create a page in the first place?

[jccbin]

They've used Moscone Center before for announcements. Basically, it's bigger than the Cupertino auditorium they sometimes use, so whenever they have a larger number of people coming, they rent out an auditorium at Moscone.

They used it last, I think, in 98 or 99.

[joed]

Originally posted by KLFloyd
Ok, here's what I can't figure out...

If Apple is going to have a QT stream, then why are they not promoting in anyway on their website? If they are having a stream wouldn't they want people to know it was available. I understand that they don't want to tip their hand but if they are having a strem, how are people suposed to know to watch?

Just doesn't seem to make sence to me. And why would they create a page for the event, then suddenly take it down. If there was no stream why create a page in the first place?

I think Apple are testing the setup. So I reckon it will be up on the weekend sometime.

They won't advertise it until it's all been setup. Also, the same could be said for the Satellite feed - which i believe was posted on apple.com/pr but then removed. There's actually nothing (that i could find) on Apple's web site about the Monday 28th event anyway.

I personally think they're leaving it all a bit late (ie live feeds), but better late than never :)


James.

[Windowlicker]

Originally posted by iGAV
Not as good time as London.... heh-heh.... :p

Actually I love the live streams... sitting with a chilled beer, glued to my screen in anticipation of all the new Apple goodies!!

Wicked!!

word! haven't tried it with the pint yet, though.. maybe next monday ;)

Cheers!

[silvergunuk]

Let's hope they have a few live bands to perform on stage for the keynote...would be pretty cool and maybe steve jobs doing a beatles cover for a few good laughs. Anyhow I can't wait and i'll be sitting here till monday with soiled under pants waiting for the big unveiling....quality nice! I don't drink beer but a cold pepsi and a bag of doritos and chilli dip sounds great...better get some mac owning mates around so we can all rejoice together!!!

[NavyIntel007]

They are showing it at the Apple Store, I saw a sign there the other day. Debating on whether or not I should go... :rolleyes:

[noel4r]

two more days baby.....

[iAlan]

Originally posted by silvergunuk
i'll be sitting here till monday with soiled under pants waiting for the big unveiling

Thanks for sharing your plans, but please don't share those underpants...

I will watch the web stream if it happens, I don't care about the 2.00 am time here - I will sit back, enjoy, hear what gets said, sleep and dream about it for a few hours!

Yeah!!

[MrMacMan]

Can someone post an image of what that page Had... because there is nothing there now.

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by silvergunuk
Let's hope they have a few live bands to perform on stage for the keynote...would be pretty cool and maybe steve jobs doing a beatles cover for a few good laughs. Anyhow I can't wait and i'll be sitting here till monday with soiled under pants waiting for the big unveiling....quality nice! I don't drink beer but a cold pepsi and a bag of doritos and chilli dip sounds great...better get some mac owning mates around so we can all rejoice together!!!
Forgive me for asking, but how can you live in England and not drink beer?...

Beats me.

NicoMan

[goldmember]

If he was German and didn't drink beer, that would be more surprising.

[j763]

...or Australian...

[megabassjosh]

or Canadian...

[Steamboatwillie]

So if Steve started up an Apple brewery what kind of beer would it be?

iLager, iStout, iAle, etc...

:D

[melchior]

i reckon it'd be iAle. apple's going for that market and all. :o and those of us who know better would complain how apple needs a wider variety of independant and god forbid "unlabeled" beer.

[Appleidea]

I don't understand why Apple is do not broadcast it via the Internet. Here in Holland more than 95% of the peaple have a cable and don't have a sattelite an if the have one the configuration is not good.

[Chef Ramen]

what time will this be happening on the east coast?

[goldmember]

i reckon it'd be iAle.

What about PowerBooze?

[boom-boom]

It would definitely have to be some sort of iCider after all it is made from Apples!!

[beatle888]

Originally posted by iGAV
sitting with a chilled beer, glued to my screen in anticipation of all the new Apple goodies!!

Wicked!!

chilled? since when did englishmen start drinking there beer chilled. i always thought it was at cellar temperature. i love my newcastle, bass and genus cool and light beers like heineken and becks chilled.

ok back to the thread.

[smegdude]

Originally posted by beatle888
chilled? since when did englishmen start drinking there beer chilled. i always thought it was at cellar temperature. i love my newcastle, bass and genus cool and light beers like heineken and becks chilled.

ok back to the thread.

its actually spelt guinness, and i'll be having some while i sit back and watch the show.
maybe if they have a band or two then at the end of the show they will have a big karaoke competition. :D
that would certainly be music to someones ears.

[Snowy_River]

I hope that there is a web-cast, so I can watch it too.

Oh dern, I just realized that I'm going to be meeting with my lawyer at 10. What crumby timing. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to check Apple.com, and MacRumors when I get done to see what my birthday present from Apple is.

[froggy78]

For me the big question is: Will the music service be available in Europe, too?
My feeling is that it will be US/Canada only.

Did anybody hear something about that?

[beatle888]

Originally posted by smegdude
its actually spelt guinness

i knew someone would point out my spelling error :D, i didnt take the time to find out the proper spelling which is a shame cause its one of my favs.

enjoy.

[Tom800]

i'Mnotdrunk

iDon'thaveadrinkingproblem('ceptwhenican'tgetadrink)

Best served iCeCold



i'M tired and can't think of any better ones.... We need some new rumors.

i Want new style iPods - like the sony minidiscs - red, blue, funky, shiny buttons all over the place. Compared to those minidiscs the current iPods look like surgical tools, anti-septic, clinical. Great, but funky would be nice as well. Any thoughts?

[Joern]

Hi,
I'm from germany and responsible for a mac-magazine. In europe there is no satelite broadcast for the special presentation. You could earn HUNDRED DOLLARS if YOU help us to offer an audio broadcast via Quicktime stream.

We're trying to find someone who could hold a telephone, or a microfone or even a DV-Cam in front of a TV, so that the signal can be transferred to europe. We pay for everything. We would pay an additional fee of hundred dollars for the lucky person who helped us.

Having Steve Jobs presenting something crazy and not having the chance to receive the broadcast would be horrible, so maybe YOU could help us. If that is the case, mail to joerndyck@mac.com

I know this is a bit strange.

Thank you,

Joern

http://www.mac-tv.de

[From Win to Mac]

WHAT COLOUR WILL THE NOTES HAVE ON THE iTUNES 4 LOGO ??!?!

So it went from blue to pink to violet.
I say red will be next.

[Xcyridus]

Originally posted by joed
I think Apple are testing the setup. So I reckon it will be up on the weekend sometime.

They won't advertise it until it's all been setup. Also, the same could be said for the Satellite feed - which i believe was posted on apple.com/pr but then removed. There's actually nothing (that i could find) on Apple's web site about the Monday 28th event anyway.

I personally think they're leaving it all a bit late (ie live feeds), but better late than never :)


James.

Yeah, that's what I think too.

Btw, this is my first post. Hello everyone! I look forward to posting and meeting new people. :D

[RBMaraman]

God, if you're listening, please let them do a stream of this event!

I don't have class from noon to 2pm CT, so It's the perfect window to watch the event.

Come on, Steve! We all know you read the rumor sites, so take our pleas into consideration.

[bdunton]

After talking to an Apple consultant, it appears the event will be available on stream by demand after the announcement. So get your browsers ready to download...sounds like this is going to be big!

[MasterX (OSiX)]

Originally posted by Joern
Hi,
I'm from germany and responsible for a mac-magazine. In europe there is no satelite broadcast for the special presentation. You could earn HUNDRED DOLLARS if YOU help us to offer an audio broadcast via Quicktime stream.

We're trying to find someone who could hold a telephone, or a microfone or even a DV-Cam in front of a TV, so that the signal can be transferred to europe. We pay for everything. We would pay an additional fee of hundred dollars for the lucky person who helped us.

Having Steve Jobs presenting something crazy and not having the chance to receive the broadcast would be horrible, so maybe YOU could help us. If that is the case, mail to joerndyck@mac.com

I know this is a bit strange.

Thank you,

Joern

http://www.mac-tv.de

I say pay off some apple store emplyee. I mean come on. They have an XL-1 and GL-2 in every store. Powerbooks gallore, Xserve, T3. QT Broadcaster on OSX Server. Everything you need for a beautiful MPEG-4 webcast to europe. Yes, excellent....

[Xcyridus]

Originally posted by bdunton
After talking to an Apple consultant, it appears the event will be available on stream by demand after the announcement. So get your browsers ready to download...sounds like this is going to be big!

I have ONE thing to say about this:

YAY! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[MasterX (OSiX)]

Originally posted by RBMaraman
God, if you're listening, please let them do a stream of this event!

I don't have class from noon to 2pm CT, so It's the perfect window to watch the event.

Come on, Steve! We all know you read the rumor sites, so take our pleas into consideration.

well maybe not SJ, but an apple troll none the less

[MrMacMan]

I really wanna see this webcast...

Of Coarse no one posted an image of what this webcast page LOOKED like because it is EMPTY now...

[joed]

Originally posted by MrMacman
I really wanna see this webcast...

Of Coarse no one posted an image of what this webcast page LOOKED like because it is EMPTY now...

I clicked on an old bookmark for the Macworld SanFran 03 Keynote, and when I say the page, I quickley copied and pasted the note and sent it to arn.

I also clicked on the 'Watch Now' of which was the Macworld SanFran 03 keynote.

Though I closed it and when I tried to go back to it, it come up blank.

This page have always been used for streams in the past, and generally they keep the previous keynote link on it.

I wished I had taken a screen shot, at least I did a copy/paste of the text. I'd care to bet that they were testing the page and equiptment ready for the announcement on Monday - not realising it was live and took it down immediately when they realised. So I reckon it will be back up very soon. Hears hoping anyway!


James.

[Xcyridus]

Apple always uses http://stream.apple.akadns.net/

It's their streaming server. I think they might have the info up tomorrow. ;)

[dongmin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by silvergunuk
[B]Let's hope they have a few live bands to perform on stage for the keynote...would be pretty cool and maybe steve jobs doing a beatles cover for a few good laughs.QUOTE]

It wouldn't surprise me if Steve brougt in some high-profile musician to help make the pitch. The new music service is supposed to have some heavy marketing punch behind it. Maybe we'll see the Eagles and No Doubt in the commercials. Or the usual Apple spokemen Seal and Moby.

[Tom800]

so what's the music service gonna be called? I can imaging sony or whoever calling it something like "MusicDirect", but apple would never be that anal. Maybe it won't have a name, just be part of iTunes 4?

[Tom800]

EDIT: "imagine", not "imaging".

[daRAT]

Something interesting...

While talking with my local Apple dealer they mentioned that the Apple Rep said to make sure they were in on the 28th (not out doing sales etc), becuase he was going to call with news. They told me this is the first time the Apple Rep will call, usually an email is sent, no matter what new goodies are released. So the call is a major change form the norm and has they wondering.

I think we are all going to be suprised.

My prediction is new iMac (significant changes, including form?)

iPod redesigned.

Other hints they have given to me have come true, but were to vauge to waste space here. Such as the iBook update, I knew something was coming, but no clue as to what. Both iPod and iMac were mentioned recently by the Rep

Most of the hints come from the rep as "I woundn't order and more of those until after .." and gives a rough date.

Sorry to be secretive, but I do not want to get my Apple dealer in any hot water :\

[KLFloyd]

I'm beginning to think we're not going to see the stream live, it's only a day away and they haven't hyped it at all. My guess is that once it's over they'll throw up a new splash page, edit the store and then on the product information page post a link to the QT steam of the event AFTER the fact.

This would also explain the "test page" joed says he saw.

Damn, I had a 2 hour chunk of time right at the time it would hvae been live, depending on how long the broadcast is I probably won't get to see what the new products are till later in the evening.

[MasterX (OSiX)]

Originally posted by daRAT
Something interesting...
I think we are all going to be suprised.

My prediction is new iMac (significant changes, including form?)

iPod redesigned.


Look at the Apple Store. New iBooks, new PowerBooks, new PowerMacs, new iMacs, new pro and consumer Software (by iApps standards iLife is very new). With the eMac just traling the new iMacs (the 1ghz Airport Extreme ones) I doubt they'll see an update soon either.

What I'm getting at is that Apple has made it pretty darn obvious that we're not seeing a computer tomorrow. iTunes is the only "old" iLife software, iPods are the only "old" hardware. Hell we're more likely to see Panther than a new Powermac/iMac/etc. Don't get excited, we know Panther will be pro WWDC ;-).

To me it seems clear that the announcement has to be one of the following:
1) A new piece of hardware/software
2) An update to the iPod/iTUnes
3) A new service

Add the piles of rumors pointing to Apple's online $1/song system and the need for MPEG-4 for this system to run i'll place my chips on iPod software 1.3 with AAC, iTunes4 with AAC, rendezvous, 1-Click music system, and whatever else Apple puts in, and ideally a new iPod with 30Gb HDs, maybe a simple color screen for iPhoto (MAYBE). It'd be cool to see MPEG-4 audio/video off the HD, streaming off the internet via a Bluetooth enabled cell phone dial out and OSX-enabled Wacom screen, but I doubt it.

[MasterX (OSiX)]

Oh yeah, if anyone wants to see my mock up of iTunes 4:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=21840&highlight=iTunes+screenshot

I got about 10 people to believe it was real before they found a typo. Woops. The one up there has been fixed. I think it's an accurate idea of what iTunes 4 will bring.

[pkradd]

The annoucement tomorrow is ONLY about the music service and a new line of iPods plus the necessary free updates to iTunes and current iPods. No new iMacs or any other hardware. The invitation to the press said "..music to your ears". May is going to be music month for Apple. On the stage tomorrow will be reps from the big 5 labels. On Friday May 2nd all Apple stores will have open house and enable people to play with the new iPods and download tunes. I suspect that .Mac subscribers will possibly get 5 or 6 free downloads. Everybody else will pay from the git go. We will all know soon enuf.

And, yes, don't skip school.

[Booga]

Tomorrow's initial lead articles were posted to the NYT web site. The 4th headline is about Apple's expected music streaming rollout.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28APPL.html

The NYT doesn't generally report things without a couple of solid sources, so they're probably pretty accurate. I haven't been following the story closely enough to know how much of it is new information, but there are a couple details in the article I don't remember seeing mentioned elsewhere.