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Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by oemera »

Bjoern wrote: post #23

Why is this site forcing me to register? Is my personal information so nice to have? sign

Apple developers need to sign a NDA with the creation of an developer account. These videos are under NDA cause it is beta software and confidential. This is the reason why you need an account to watch those videos.

BUT even if they weren't under NDA this is totally ok! Going to the conference would have cost you minimum 1 week time and >1500$. You get all of this for free after only four days the conference happened. The only thing they ask for is an account and you are complaining about this? I will never understand such attitude!

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by m_st »

Wow they're quick. Does anybody else have issues downloading them via iTunes? I'm on Windows here at work and as soon as the download finishes it is deleted, nowhere to be found on disk or iTunes. The machine is even activated in the iTunes store. Guess I'll have to keep streaming until I can download them tonight on my Mac...

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by sondh »

mattbirchler wrote: post #24
jfoutz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet you a nickel google will live stream IO next week.

Do they stream the sessions as well? I know they do the keynote but it would be really impressive if they streamed the whole darn thing.

Yes, select sessions will be live streamed. Just like last year. Source: https://developers.google.com/events/io/

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by taligent »

m_st wrote: post #32

Wow they're quick. Does anybody else have issues downloading them via iTunes? I'm on Windows here at work and as soon as the download finishes it is deleted, nowhere to be found on disk or iTunes. The machine is even activated in the iTunes store. Guess I'll have to keep streaming until I can download them tonight on my Mac...

They should be stored under iTunes U. Do you have that enabled under Preferences ?

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by batista »

HorizonXP wrote: post #5

So to view these videos, I need to be running Safari for the streaming version, or have iTunes installed to download the videos? Can someone explain what's the benefit of doing it that way? I'm on Windows (Ubuntu also, in a VM) running Chrome. Sure, I could install Safari or iTunes, but why do I have to? (And don't say "So you can watch the videos.")

>Can someone explain what's the benefit of doing it that way?

Keeping out the riff raff? Those videos are targeted at Mac developers, not people having issues with Safari and/or iTunes.

>I'm on Windows (Ubuntu also, in a VM) running Chrome. Sure, I could install Safari or iTunes, but why do I have to?

Just because those are the prerequisites Apple made for watching them.

That said, I think you can also watch them without Safari for streaming (you just need Quicktime IIRC), but downloading them needs iTunes.

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by batista »

HorizonXP wrote: post #10
derefr wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not specifically Safari; it's the Quicktime codec library which is bundled with Safari (and iTunes). You can just download Quicktime standalone and anything NPAPI-supporting will gain the ability to play the videos.

That would make sense, except that I have Quicktime installed, and it works fine on Apple's movie trailers site. It's fine, I'm barking up the wrong tree here TBH. Apple makes it clear that they want you to use their products to view this developer stuff. It's the same type of lock-in that others try to do, so they're not the only guilty party. Just unfortunate when companies do that. I'll go and install iTunes.

>It's fine, I'm barking up the wrong tree here TBH. Apple makes it clear that they want you to use their products to view this developer stuff.

It's also probably more convenient to them: they have this huge system for content delivery through iTunes, so they might as well use it.

That said, from a promotional aspect, it would make more sense to have the videos readily available for Windows/Linux users also, so they can lust over the development options for Cocoa/iOS.

It's not like they wont have to buy a Mac to program for it anyway, so it would do Apple no harm to lure them with openly available videos.

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by batista »

Bjoern wrote: post #26
Karunamon wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh for pete's sake it's an Apple developer account. Microsoft, Google, and every other dev platform that matters has the same requirement. Can we please stop with the "zOMG my data!!1" whenever someone asks for a registration?

Neither have any of those. Just because everybody does it (require registration), does not automatically make it good and ok. Sorry, you can downvote me if you like.

>Neither have any of those.

You'd be surprised. They might have some videos and material for free (as does Apple, btw), but lots of other development stuff from them requires an MS/Google account.

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by yardie »

5teev wrote: post #28

Note: they've included sample code even for non-attendees, something that was not done for WWDC 2011.

I have the sample code for 2010 and 2011. 2010 was neatly packaged up in one big zip file. The 2011 samples are mixed in with the rest of the Library sample code. But you can tell what was used at WWDC because the timestamp will be updated to June.

Re: WWDC 2012 Session Videos

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Post by m_st »

Now I know why they've been this fast: The other years you always got to see the presenter, this year you just see the slides and get the audio. So they simply had to join the audio source with the slides. Works fine though and having them earlier is certainly nice.
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