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Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by canadaj »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #17

Any chance we can keep all Apple discussion on HN contained in this thread?

Probably not. People are going to post the links to Apple's announcements which makes sense. I don't want to read the discussion of the iWatch along with everything else in one thread.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by aroch »

drewnick wrote: post #10
aroch wrote: post #6

Apple.com/ has been redirecting to apple.com/live for about ~20 hours now. They're very confident about what's about to be presented.

They've been using a '301 MOVED PERMANENTLY' redirect, meaning they are extra serious about this.

Or lazy about their redirecting. 301's are supported by pretty much every browser, indexer and wget/curl whereas 302's sometimes fail on those. Its also pretty easy to reissue another 301 from /live to com/

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by Aardwolf »

AlexeyBrin wrote: post #27
Aardwolf wrote: post #22

This website says that live streaming requires OS X or iOS. Why would they only allow already-customers to watch their presentation? Locking out non-customers seems not the best way to get some.

Check the comments, someone already solved this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8290769

Well, still, for a company that tries to make everything "simple and beautiful", why don't their video streams just work everywhere out of the box? That is the question.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by bla2 »

Aardwolf wrote: post #22

This website says that live streaming requires OS X or iOS. Why would they only allow already-customers to watch their presentation? Locking out non-customers seems not the best way to get some.

They probably use https://developer.apple.com/streaming/ , an HTTP streaming mechanism that's implemented by Safari that didn't get adopted by any other browser.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by arrrg »

Aardwolf wrote: post #22

This website says that live streaming requires OS X or iOS. Why would they only allow already-customers to watch their presentation? Locking out non-customers seems not the best way to get some.

Because it ultimately doesn’t matter. Those who really want to watch it already have some device that can play it and the rest doesn’t care about it anyway so much to watch a 2hr commercial and will just read about it somewhere or see it on TV later. I think it’s as simple as that. That’s why Apple doesn’t really try to make this work for as many people as possible.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by Someone1234 »

aroch wrote: post #32
drewnick wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've been using a '301 MOVED PERMANENTLY' redirect, meaning they are extra serious about this.

Or lazy about their redirecting. 301's are supported by pretty much every browser, indexer and wget/curl whereas 302's sometimes fail on those. Its also pretty easy to reissue another 301 from /live to com/

True. For any other site it would matter, as doing so hurts your search ranking, but I seriously doubt Apple.com worries about search rank.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by WildUtah »

antr wrote: post #3

Call me dull, but I'm looking forward for a new iMac 27". Apple recently renewed the 21" version, but I'm just waiting for a new 27" to come out.

The new iMac 27" should have a nice 5120x2880 screen. That would sure justify the hype.

But I bet we'll just get a 4.7" iPhone, Apple catching up to where Samsung has been for three long years now with a medium sized phone instead of a tiny chiclet. (I love the chiclet, but bigger would be better.)

And we'll probably get another lousy "smart" watch that needs charging every day and doesn't do anything you can't do by pulling out your phone for a second. Maybe fanatic runners like Apple's CEO will find it almost as useful as a fuelband or fitbit.

Note: Downvoters really hate the idea of a retina iMac.

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