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Apple to livestream its fall event

Well... #1... wouldn't someone be able to fake a user agent setting in their browser to look like a mac?

#2. I have a dual boot Hackintosh/Windows PC... I am pretty sure the Hackintosh OSX installation would be seen as a real Mac when trying to watch. 😎
 
Almost a decade ago, we would get up at 5am and watch the keynote through a postage-stamp sized window, using dial-up no less.

I remember once, Steve began by saying how many hundred thousand streams were operating into how many countries - "including one stream into the Vatican".

The image in my mind was straight out of Father Ted - a cluster of fully robed cardinals, huddled round a communal monitor.
 
BC2009 said:
It seems there are one of two possibilities:

1) They have something really big to announce tomorrow and they want to really hype it up

2) They want to demo something that requires WiFi and don't want the entire WiFi system to be brought down by hundreds of bloggers

I'm guessing (2) could be averted by setting up a private WiFi network with security enabled -- so here is hoping for #1.
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The problem with #2 is massive #s of people using the radio frequency and channels WIFI uses, not that they are connected to the same base station. I'm sure they always use a private WIFI network with security, but all that "noise" can potentially affect the connection.
 
omg!!!!! someone needs to open up a small text chat so everyone can talk about what going on live too!
 
Peace said:
I kinda feel sorry for arn. This is gonna take a bunch of hits away. Think it will arn? WC ?
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People still miss the stream. There is tons of traffic created from people looking for info+pics+video on the new stuff.
 
Stupid time zones. Looks like I will be up at 6am to watch this. Yes, I am that eager for a new iPod...
 
Maybe the Mac/iPhone/iPad requirement is an artificial one because they want to limit server load; this is probably a big experiment for them.
 
Wow, this is awesome! Every single event, I look for a live stream, either audio or video, and now I can watch it from Apple's site! Awesome! Let's just hope that this is a permanent thing for ALL upcoming Apple events.
 
This is freaking awesome!!! Going to be glued to either my iPod or my MacBook Pro, watching it!
 
Will it be closed captioned or subtitled?

I'm deaf and I need subtitles or closed captions to understand whats being said over video. Can someone answer my question or at least pass it on to Apple?
 
Peace said:
It will 😉



It might but the core of Windows 7 doesn't have all the components needed yet. From what I've been testing on IE9 it's still not fully compliant so I think it has to do with Java etc.

Oh and also Microsoft is pushing it's Silverlight plug-in so it could be MS decided it didn't want to partake.
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It has nothing to do with Windows. IE doesn't support h.264 HTML5, but Safari/Chrome on Windows do.
 
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