No live broadcast of keynote!

[dotnina]

Since we're talking about the keynote, I just have a quick question to slip in here ...

Does anyone know when the "meat" usually starts? Like about when the first demo of something begins? It's my first keynote , but I understand he usually says "hay, we sold X ipods, and people have bought X songs, and ..."

So I'm just wondering when the meat starts. Approximately.

 

[BornAgainMac]

I bet it will have some new Tiger demos. Since it is pre-beta, they can't show any live shots. I expect the quality will be top notch if they release the new Quicktime that day to view the keynote later that evening.

 

[mms]

Who knows? I'm sure he *could* go on about the iPod and music for an hour if he wanted to. Just go on IRC and stay for the entire keynote, or follow the MR site feed. But know that the best is usually the later part of the keynote, with the "and one more thing".

 

[jsw]

Since we're talking about the keynote, I just have a quick question to slip in here ...

Does anyone know when the "meat" usually starts? Like about when the first demo of something begins? It's my first keynote , but I understand he usually says "hay, we sold X ipods, and people have bought X songs, and ..."

So I'm just wondering when the meat starts. Approximately.

Usually it's a few minutes into it, but not very long. You'd probably be safe waiting 10-15 minutes or so - but why? You never know! Some years, the whole keynote goes by without much to announce. Other years, it's packed with cool stuff.

 

[BornAgainMac]

So I'm just wondering when the meat starts. Approximately.

10 minutes. Usually there is a video to kill time in addition to the state of the union address. The meat may start off with products recently announced.

 

[jsw]

But know that the best is usually the later part of the keynote, with the "and one more thing".

Was that missing last year? I recall being underwhelmed.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Was that missing last year? I recall being underwhelmed.

The iPod Mini announced was followed by silence. People were shocked that it cost so much. I think last year was the first Mac World that was more focused on music. No free download of iPhoto or iMovie. Plus the intro mentioned the 20th anniversary but didn't have a 20th anniversary wow factor. Garageband was probably the highlight of the show for most people.

 

[jsw]

The iPod Mini announced was followed by silence. People were shocked that it cost so much. I think last year was the first Mac World that was more focused on music. No free download of iPhoto or iMovie. Plus the intro mentioned the 20th anniversary but didn't have a 20th anniversary wow factor. Garageband was probably the highlight of the show for most people.

Oh yeah.

Not to knock Garageband - it was and is cool - but it was a bit weak to carry the keynote. The mini was also cool (and apparently not overpriced) but also was not enough to satisfy me. Hopefully - and seemingly - this year will be different!

 

[hob]

I bet it will have some new Tiger demos. Since it is pre-beta, they can't show any live shots.

What do you mean? That the thing will be in Quicktime 7/6.6 format so we'll be waiting to get it or that they won't want to show it live incase Tiger... *ahem* how do i say this... CRASHES?!

Hob

 

[jsw]

What do you mean? That the thing will be in Quicktime 7/6.6 format so we'll be waiting to get it or that they won't want to show it live incase Tiger... *ahem* how do i say this... CRASHES?!

Hob

I don't know what the internal version of Tiger is like, but the developer releases have been pretty good as far as stability already. NOT release-caliber good, but demo-caliber, certainly! Of course, the demo could all be "mouse-synched" - Stevo pretends to move mouse, reacts to canned demo.

 

[40167]

Does anyone know the coodinates of the satellite? Im a big sat head and have a few FTA dishes sitting around that i would like to hook up to catch the feed if its even available..

Hell.. if i had that i could even run a live stream over the web....

FTA wont do you jack, lol... Apple runs it over C-Band; which you could recieve with your exisiting FTA equipment (im assuming yours is a pansat FTA box) and the larger dish... most likely you dont have the larger dish though.