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Meh Who knows...
Aussie press get an invite... that's all we care about... and the dollar
Meh Who knows...
Aussie press get an invite... that's all we care about... and the dollar
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Apple Also Inviting Australian Journalists to June 6th WWDC Keynote
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Heres my guess. iCloud, with developer APIs to sync data transparently between iOS and Mac apps, so you no longer have to sync files through iTunes. Maybe they will also demo it with say, iWork for iPad and OS X wouldnt that be nice??
Heres to hoping.
Super Pumped!!!!!!!
Can't wait, forgot it was only a week and a half away. Hope Apple will stream this one.
Can't wait, forgot it was only a week and a half away. Hope Apple will stream this one.
I'm betting on all OS related announcements this time. The iPhone hardware is very competitive... It's the OS's that need a refresh to keep the competition going.
It's going to be interesting to see what they have adopted from others and more so, what's new that no one has thought of. But I'm sure the new iOS5 will be like getting a new iPhone and iPad.
New Zealand on average has faster speeds than Australia according to the ITIF and the OECD.
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I'm usually asleep when keynotes happen so Ill just watch it when it comes. I would like to go to the WWDC but it always coincides with exams or work stuff.
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So the US, UK and Australian journalists have had a special invite? I think this means that the icloud is starting in at least those 3 countries.
Maybe the invites are short notice because they are being sent out as apple mangages to strike more and more regional deals with record labels?
So the US, UK and Australian journalists have had a special invite? I think this means that the icloud is starting in at least those 3 countries.
Maybe the invites are short notice because they are being sent out as apple mangages to strike more and more regional deals with record labels?
I hope for a new TV with a A5 that handles 1080p (finally!), and with an app store (in IO5?).
So I can finally have an eyetv app, and plex frontend nicely integrated on my bedroom tv (currently a dying macbookpro1,1 is struggling with 1080p there, and it's not practical to handle it with VNC).
TV with a A5 that handles 1080p (finally!), and with an app store (in IO5?).So I can finally have an eyetv app, and plex frontend nicely integrated on my bedroom tv (currently a dying macbookpro1,1 is struggling with 1080p there, and it's not practical to handle it with VNC).
Very cool. Looking forward to the 6th.
There are a few irons in the fire for apple right now, I wonder what they are going to highlight?
There are a few irons in the fire for apple right now, I wonder what they are going to highlight?
Apple, journalists and junkets
Somebody asked if Apple pays for airfares when they invite overseas media to WWDC, Macworld etc. You bet they do! The cost of a journo coming all the way from Australia, HK, London etc would be more than any newspaper, magazine or individual journalist could justify, and then there's accommodation.
Let me tell you how this all works.
Apple AU invites a select handful of Aussie media to a key event like Macworld (no longer, of course) or WWDC. The media they invite tend to be very pro-Apple, or at least not at all critical. Apple does NOT invite any journalist they think they can't control and won't get 100% positive editorial out of.
You just have to look at the 'journalists' they have most often invited and you'll see these are the biggest Apple shills this side of the Pacific Ocean, people who get a lot of space in print or on TV but never speak a critical word of Apple, in fact they go the other way and blindly parrot the Apple line in the most sycophantic manner.
From time to time Apple has invited someone who has refused to bathe in the Kool-Aid and dared to suggest that the iPhone or iPad isn't perfect - not a big nasty sledge, just a fair & balanced telling of the facts as they see them - and Apple has then made a point of NOT inviting that person again.
So here is how it goes with these junkets. Apple AU invites its chosen few. They're flow business class to the US and put up in a five-star hotel, all expenses paid of course. Because they arrive the day before the event Apple usually arranges some fun casual activity for them, and a dinner the night before the event. Then the media attend the event, and as soon as it's over they get an infodump from Apple AU PR immediately afterwards for local pricing and release dates. There's also a private demo session which tends to repeat the on-stage demo, give journalists a little hands-on time so they can claim they got hands-on with the product and make their rushed initial puff piece sound like a review. You don't ask questions in this briefing because there is either no time because the demo runs the length of the session or because there is no point because Apple won't give any answer unless the information is already in the press release. So forget about trying to get useful information.
Then its off to write stories before a big dinner, a free day the next day and then business class back home again.
And that's why so many of the regular journalists will not raise one critical note of Apple, will not even question any of Apple's statements and assumptions, because they will then be dropped off the junket list which means those scoop 'First review!' stories and business class flights and frequent flyer points and days to play in San Francisco at Apple's expense would vanish.
Somebody asked if Apple pays for airfares when they invite overseas media to WWDC, Macworld etc. You bet they do! The cost of a journo coming all the way from Australia, HK, London etc would be more than any newspaper, magazine or individual journalist could justify, and then there's accommodation.
Let me tell you how this all works.
Apple AU invites a select handful of Aussie media to a key event like Macworld (no longer, of course) or WWDC. The media they invite tend to be very pro-Apple, or at least not at all critical. Apple does NOT invite any journalist they think they can't control and won't get 100% positive editorial out of.
You just have to look at the 'journalists' they have most often invited and you'll see these are the biggest Apple shills this side of the Pacific Ocean, people who get a lot of space in print or on TV but never speak a critical word of Apple, in fact they go the other way and blindly parrot the Apple line in the most sycophantic manner.
From time to time Apple has invited someone who has refused to bathe in the Kool-Aid and dared to suggest that the iPhone or iPad isn't perfect - not a big nasty sledge, just a fair & balanced telling of the facts as they see them - and Apple has then made a point of NOT inviting that person again.
So here is how it goes with these junkets. Apple AU invites its chosen few. They're flow business class to the US and put up in a five-star hotel, all expenses paid of course. Because they arrive the day before the event Apple usually arranges some fun casual activity for them, and a dinner the night before the event. Then the media attend the event, and as soon as it's over they get an infodump from Apple AU PR immediately afterwards for local pricing and release dates. There's also a private demo session which tends to repeat the on-stage demo, give journalists a little hands-on time so they can claim they got hands-on with the product and make their rushed initial puff piece sound like a review. You don't ask questions in this briefing because there is either no time because the demo runs the length of the session or because there is no point because Apple won't give any answer unless the information is already in the press release. So forget about trying to get useful information.
Then its off to write stories before a big dinner, a free day the next day and then business class back home again.
And that's why so many of the regular journalists will not raise one critical note of Apple, will not even question any of Apple's statements and assumptions, because they will then be dropped off the junket list which means those scoop 'First review!' stories and business class flights and frequent flyer points and days to play in San Francisco at Apple's expense would vanish.
New Zealand on average has faster speeds than Australia according to the ITIF and the OECD.
And we're both blown away by Japan and parts of Europe.
Okay… I'm up for a trans-Tasman broadband bake-off if you are…
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I should be asleep, but sometimes Steve's reality distortion field pulls me in even before it starts and I am forced to watch.
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All they while they are selling lemons right? Which is why it ALL catches up to them in the end, as it reaches the rest of the review and blogospheres......oh, wait, that's right. It doesn't go that way at all...
What you are saying just makes sense from a marketing point of view. Your insinuations that it somehow means that they are hiding something or presenting a false front is ridiculous.
If the products were trash, no amount of primping and preening could disguise that in the long run.
What a troll.
Apparently there is a beer glut in CA and Apple thought by inviting some Aussies over they could help drink all that excess beer. Apple was right!
Stevenote?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Steve Jobs confirmed as the speaker at WWDC sometime earlier this week, or last week?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Steve Jobs confirmed as the speaker at WWDC sometime earlier this week, or last week?
iCloud, iOS 5, and Lion. We already know it's bigger than the iPad. Much bigger.
I hope we hear about the extra security built into Lion. Not the crappy malware filter we got the last time. I mean a full tilt security overhaul. If Apple plans to keep selling people computers with the 'no viruses' moniker then they gotta patch the holes. Not to mention they get front page ads when they get hacked at the conventions and other security conferences.
As for iOS5. Hopefully it's truly impressive. I'm keeping an open mind to a design refresh or something similar. Apart from the list of features we all want (steal the JB apps Apple!) in the next iOS I really just want Apple to offer a free MobileMe service. They really need something that can keep people from getting their iPhone and then using all the Google apps to sync and such. This will be impressive for the majority of people who only know about syncing with iTunes.
As for iOS5. Hopefully it's truly impressive. I'm keeping an open mind to a design refresh or something similar. Apart from the list of features we all want (steal the JB apps Apple!) in the next iOS I really just want Apple to offer a free MobileMe service. They really need something that can keep people from getting their iPhone and then using all the Google apps to sync and such. This will be impressive for the majority of people who only know about syncing with iTunes.
IMO, the "big" thing has to be iCloud (or whatever they end up calling it). I just don't see anything else on the IMMEDIATE horizon that would qualify.
Given how 'leaky' Apple has been lately, it's pretty unlikely that any significant product could come out without the media hearing of it in advance.