Apple Shares Full Video of Today's WWDC Keynote Presentation [Update: YouTube Version Now Available]

[BeagleMeister]

But . . . but . . . "It's really great."

 

[agsystems]

I was taking aback by Iovine's performance but then I realized he has likely done little to no public speaking in his life. His domain is a small room with a handful of people and I suspect he dominates.

I think sometimes we forget pretty much everyone sucks at public speaking naturally and it takes a lot of work and training. I assume apple execs were hoping for the best with Iovine but also felt if they left them out it might make Beats seem even more marginalized.

Plus I suspect in front of a small group of people Iovine is pretty compelling and dynamic. So unless they did a run through in front of a full auditorium it would not have likely even been evident. Most people freak just being on a stage regardless of how many people are in the audience. Given Iovine is a salesmen who would not be thrown speaking to 10 people even if from a stage. But a large room of people, who are not his people (music industry people) but computer developers? It's easy to see how it could go the way it did, in hindsight.

Excellent assessment...with all the talk about diversity, looks like Apple was under pressure to have different presenters and it showed.

 

[X38]

Wow What a Dud Conference

 

[AustinIllini]

Wow What a Dud Conference

Don't tell me! Apple is doomed. /s

 

[Paradoxally]

Oh I agree... Our personal libraries and the PAID downloads are the killer feature of Apple Music. If one song on an album is grayed out, at least I could just pay the extra 99cents to complete it. IF that song isn't an album only track on iTunes. I just checked one of the grayed out songs on Spotify and sure enough it is album only on iTunes. Wow. That sucks.

I'm either renting music or buying full albums, but not both.

And then we turn to pirating when tracks are album only. Is it wrong? Yes. But a single track being album only is hardly right.

I download it, add it to iTunes, and nearly instantly I can stream it on my phone. I bet this is what people have doing with Match for ages now.

 

[uid15]

You could just copy the stream link and stream it on VLC or something.

Yes, *WE* know that, but you're also missing the point - all this hackery should not be necessary for Joe Public.

Live stream: Requires a Mac or iOS device

After the fact: Same video is now suddenly platform agnostic!

Talk about inconsistency :/

 

[godrifle]

They only care that you buy their products. Their primary goal is to inform developers. The "entertainment" bits are there to help ease the huge amounts of information. It's presentations 101. They are NOT there to entertain you. You can only buy one of the services they announced today.

As a developer, I'm still trying to figure out why the most substantial portion of the address was about a new service that has no particular relevance to developers.

 

[autrefois]

Wouldn't Apple be interested in catering to potential developers?

Seeing as I am correct, I can go at this all day. Apple could care less how entertained you are. They want you to be informed if you want to listen. If you're bored, go outside live your life.

Who mentioned anything about being bored? Since you quoted my post I assume you're referring to me, but I actually enjoyed the parts of the keynote I was able to see. I just gave my opinion, and you're entitled to your opinion as well. I agree that their main audience for WWDC is developers, but in my view they certainly must know that millions of non-developers will watch or read about what is discussed at the keynote. It would seem unlikely that they ignore this fact when organizing, publicizing, and streaming the event.

 

[diegogaja]

Been like that for a while. Seems pretty consistent to me.

And yet, Apple INSIST on forcing people to use a Mac or Quicktime to watch these events. How are they ever going to convince non-Apple users to BECOME Apple users, if they don't use STANDARDS (HTML5, MP4) to show their videos? Wake up, Apple - we aren't ALL using Macs and Quick(slow)time.

[EDIT]

Live stream: Requires a Mac or iOS device

After the fact: Same video is now suddenly platform agnostic!

Talk about inconsistency :/

 

[diegogaja]

then why even watch Keynotes. Just read the summaries online....

The keynote was ok, but the music portion at the end was just too dragged out. Tell us when we can have it and how much it will cost. There was no need to go into such excruciating detail.

 

[diegogaja]

I thougt Newstand would have worked. Magazines and papers wanted their own presence/real estate on iOS. It made sense for them. Major outlets didn't want to be rolled up into 3 party apps like flipboard or pulse, etc. I'm guessing that didn't work out that great.

At least with Apple news the outlets get a chance to curate their presence in a nice polished Apple app.

I liked google news as an amalgamator but I'll take the new news app over that any day since I don't have to log in with my google id.

I have to agree with you. I think the 'News' app, is Apple taking control over what Newsstand was supposed to be. When Apple announced it with whatever rupert murdoch's flagship magazine was (some "daily" or something? How soon we forget... anyway) It was supposed to be revolutionary to news consumption, but the costs and implementation were unrealistic. This seems to be a method to allow publishers and content creators, to add both app optimized content and regular web content (in my opinion). It also leaves me wondering what current newsstand apps will do? Just become old school single magazine apps on iOS?

 

[jbachandouris]

As a developer, I'm still trying to figure out why the most substantial portion of the address was about a new service that has no particular relevance to developers.

The present theory is that they had planned a section on Apple TV and when that was cancelled, they needed something to fill the time. Hence the extra time spent on Music. That's just a theory though.

 

[neutrino23]

This was probably the most boring WWDC in Apple's history.

Wow. Maybe we watched different Keynotes. I like the improvements to Spotlight. I was really stoked with the split screen option and new keyboard features for iPad. I'm really looking forward to iOS 9 on the iPad. Reducing the space needed for upgrades down to just over 1GB is great news. I watch these and think of all the engineering going on behind the scenes to make them work smoothly and find it all very impressive. I can only dream about having this much engineering support for the product I work with.

It was good to see the two women presenting. I hope they come back next year. Their presentations were a little stiff but I suspect they were tightly scripted and managed. I liked Kevin Lynch's presentation on Watch OS. He came off as serious, knowledgable and competent.

The last 30 minutes about music was a total waste of time. I would rather,they had talked about Keynote, Pages, Numbers and iBooks Author. I use these products to support my career.

Phil Schiller didn't present because there was no hardware to talk about. Phil presents new hardware products, not software.

 

[Xiroteus]

Save yourself the time and just look at the important clips. One of the most boring keynotes Apple has done in a long time.

I just skimmed it and my thought was that is was insanely boring!

 

[ErikGrim]

So if I'm right, I can: Quit spotify. Get MUSIC, listen to all the songs i want (that's available), sync my playlists for offline listening, listen to live radio from Beats1, for the price of 9.99$?

Yes. $9.99 per month of course.

Although you get live radio from Beats1 (as well as Connect) for free.

 

[wiz329]

You mean those innovative features that Apple introduced a decade ago in Tiger? View attachment 559817

Right ... but it wouldn't show up as being from your cell number. Small, but quite important difference! Of course there are other services that have allowed you to do this before.