PSA: Apple's March 27 Event Won't Be Live Streamed

[MacRumors]

While Apple often offers a live stream for its special events, the company has confirmed there will be no live stream for the March 27 education-focused event set to take place at Lane Tech High School in Chicago.

Apple today updated the Events app on the Apple TV to add an image of the invitation for the upcoming event and to note that a video will be uploaded later in the day following the conclusion of the event.

Apple has not held an education-focused event since 2012, so we weren't sure what to expect. That event was not streamed either. Given that this is primarily an event for teachers and students rather than regular customers, it isn't a surprise that we'll have no live stream.

MacRumors will offer live coverage of the educational event both here on MacRumors.com and on our MacRumorsLive Twitter account, so make sure to visit us on Tuesday if you want to hear about what Apple has in store for schools.

Article Link: PSA: Apple's March 27 Event Won't Be Live Streamed

 

[Baymowe335]

In other news, reactions from disappointed Apple haters WILL be live streamed.

 

[Starship67]

Leads me to believe there will be no product announcements.

 

[Wowereit]

So I guess no hardware products at all?
Announcing new stuff without stream seems unlikely.

 

[sniffies]

that means it's unimportant

 

[826317]

What's the reason? They're recording it but not streaming it? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

 

[oldtime]

Whoa, first time I realized this was at Lane Tech. Used to live just down the street.

 

[zep0008]

Significantly less hyped now. I doubt we'll see any product announced aside from the new iPad

 

[gigapocket1]

Significantly less hyped now. I doubt we'll see any product announced aside from the new iPad

Well.. That sucks

 

[Dave245]

I thought they were going to live stream when I saw the event on my Apple TV, it makes sense tho considering this event is for the education market and not general consumers. I’m guessing no other products apart from the iPad.

 

[ersan191]

Unfortunate, must be very specific to education then, with only the new cheap iPad to announce. On to WWDC!

 

[thekeyring]

Leads me to believe there will be no product announcements.

Agreed. I think we’ll see an update to iBooks, and people here claiming it’s “yet more evidence that Tim Cook is ruining Apple”.

 

[Baymowe335]

Leads me to believe there will be no product announcements.

And let it begin!

 

[ThisBougieLife]

In other news, reactions from disappointed Apple haters WILL be live streamed.

Right, because people who are genuinely disappointed must "hate" Apple. Only people who hate the company expect and desire new products from them.

 

[Vasilioskn]

Means it’s not worth watching

 

[wolfshades]

I was looking forward to product announcements. Something exciting. If Apple fails in other aspects, it excels at marketing, and these presentations are usually their “cash in the bank” successes.

The fact it isn’t going to be live streamed means there’s nothing to see. May as well move along folks.

 

[thekeyring]

What's the reason? They're recording it but not streaming it? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

They’ll let people watch it afterwards.

They’re not streaming it so it’s not over-hyped.

 

[TSM]

Education used to have ipod stardom. Hmmm!

 

[guzhogi]

that means it's unimportant

I thought they were going to live stream when I saw the event on my Apple TV, it makes sense tho considering this event is for the education market and not general consumers. I’m guessing no other products apart from the iPad.

sniffies, maybe unimportant to you and general consumers, but could be very important to education. As some who works in a school which has a 1:1 iPad program for all 2-5th graders, this could be very important to me and my colleagues.

 

[killawat]

tbh I expect Apple has much better control, streaming and mixing capabilities in Moscone West, Steve Jobs theater, town hall etc. It just might not be worth it to try and pull off a live stream.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

that means it's unimportant

It means it's of marginal interest to mass consumers. Apple wouldn't be waisting its time and money if it thought it wasn't "important."

 

[gmanWA]

Probably the lack of uplink bandwidth on the school's network. No straight to internet path, probably VPN's to the district so it's even more limited. Not worth bringing in dedicated lines just for this event.

 

[panjandrum]

Well, there is no doubt that Apple really needs to get their act together in the Education sector again. How they managed to squander all the fantastic inroads they were finally making I'll never know. Actually, that's a lie - I know exactly why they did it: short-term profits at the expense of all else. They decided to try and force a 1:1 ratio of devices to users, whereas their prior education (and small-business, for that matter) ecosystem allowed for seamless sharing of Mac systems (something they have never properly implemented with iPads, regardless of the obvious need to do so). Despite any hype you may have heard, Apple's product ecosystem, both in terms of costs to schools (if 1:1 adoption is implemented, as Apple intends), or in terms of usability and integration (if you don't do so) has done nothing beyond making their products less (FAR less) attractive to the education market - either due to inflated costs, or due to their usability being fundamentally Borked, whereas it used to be nigh-unassailable.

 

[HJM.NL]

that means it's unimportant

They could better remove the counter as well. Someone might assume something special sees the light of day

 

[Dave245]

sniffies, maybe unimportant to you and general consumers, but could be very important to education. As some who works in a school which has a 1:1 iPad program for all 2-5th graders, this could be very important to me and my colleagues.

That’s why I said it’s not for general consumers, it may be important to you and students because a cheaper iPad and Apple Pencil support for it would be great. Personally I’m more interested in the iPad Pro with Face ID this year and this rumoured new MacBook that’s suppose to be announced (probably at WWDC or later)