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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 wavefunction »

palakchokshi wrote: post #245
calinet6 wrote: post #236

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Jobs led them to do it right in the first place. Quality does not happen after the fact.

That's exactly what I meant... Jobs would have made them stress test that system before the event so this does not happen. The most popular company in the world that creates the incredible hype for its events should have made sure the system worked unless they wanted some to feel left out thus igniting jealous resentment.

Yeah, it's not like Jobs would have ever held an iPhone incorrectly totally screwing up his own presentation.

Dude is buried: let the dead lay dead.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by auxbuss »

derefr wrote: post #170
cylinder wrote: post #130

Restricting this to Safari only? Fuck you Apple. I'm on a god damned Macbook.

It's not Safari-only, it's just a Quicktime RTMP stream, like all their streams have always been. You should be able to watch it in any browser with a Quicktime plugin.

Failed for me on Firefox with a QuickTime plug-in. Fine on Safari.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by aroman »

jjoonathan wrote: post #117
lostgame wrote: post #78

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What, what? YouTube has been doing an HTML5 based web player for quite some time now[1], and I believe it supports FLV video as well, though I can't find a reference for that. [1] https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=CA

I don't think you can use the HTML5 player for videos with ads. It's an elephant of a caveat.

This was true at one point, but no longer. The HTML5 video player displays ads just fine these days.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by frandroid »

commandar wrote: post #344
Zenst wrote: post #290

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Also ironic as 4G (ala LTE) standard has VOIP routing for calls you make unlike 3G which uses a separate voice channel. So if you can not make a call upon LTE normally out of your call minutes then you won't be able to make a call over VoLTE as they call it as it will just route from your device to the telco provder in the same way as currently and maybe less QoS tagging, so be supprised if there was any situation we…

T-Mobile has been including WiFi calling with a ton of their Android phones for years. I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if any of the other US carriers actually use this on the iPhone 6.

And incidentally, T-Mobile was one of the only two carriers listed as supporting this feature...

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by seanflyon »

fluidcruft wrote: post #337
gone35 wrote: post #326

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I was about to comment the exact same thing. Perhaps it looks better in person, but honestly I find it weirdly jarring and just wrong --I never thought I would feel such distaste for a millennial Apple device. It's a shame: if it looked like the Moto 360 (except with a fully-round screen), it would have been quite something... But then de gustibus non est disputandum , so please don't flame me if you disagree! (PD: A…

Maybe Motorola beat Apple to the PTO with a design patent for a circle.

Apple could argue that a circle is just very rounded corners, so they hold the older patent.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by archagon »

dragonwriter wrote: post #247
sytelus wrote: post #241

Summary: 2 new iPhone models: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. iPhone 6 is 4.7", iPhone 6 Plus is 5.5". Power button on right side. A8 chip - 13% smaller chip, 25% faster CPU, 50% faster GPU, 50% more energy efficient than A7. Battery a little better on the iPhone 6; iPhone 6 Plus has amazing battery life. VoLTE (Voice over LTE) - make calls over LTE internet instead of using minutes. Camera is still 8MP... YouTube video…

> VoLTE (Voice over LTE) - make calls over LTE internet instead of using minutes. That's would have been a killer feature if it had occurred when smartphones were new enough that providers were selling plans with limited call minutes and unlimited data, but now that virtually every carrier has smartphone plans that are unlimited phone minutes/unlimited text and limited data with surcharges for data overages, who is l…

IIRC, T-Mobile lets you use Wi-Fi calling on Android to make calls abroad for free. Now it's available on iOS. Really useful for travelers.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by archagon »

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #327
yumraj wrote: post #284

Is it just me or the iWatch "looks" really ugly, at least when compared with Moto 360 which looks beautiful. iWatch may win out on functionality and user experience etc., but it just looks funky.

iWatch may win out on functionality and user experience etc., but it just looks funky. As Gruber pointed out, "Everyone else has gone skeuomorphic." I think he makes a terrible point since there are a severely limited set of possibilities for putting a small screen on your wrist and since existing watches have more than exhausted those possibilities. I agree about the Moto-360: whatever its faults, it looks nice. I u…

Yeah — I usually agree with Gruber, but I think round is just a better shape for something that's meant to be worn. Jewelry is generally round as well.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by Kurtz79 »

duskwuff wrote: post #303
Kurtz79 wrote: post #280

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Serious question: what is the state of the art for in-browser live streaming to date ? Twitch, Google Hangouts, any "live" sport event what protocol/technology do they use ? A mix of HLS and flash ?

Twitch uses HLS with a Flash front end. No idea about the others. HLS is nice because it doesn't require any new servers or protocols -- it uses vanilla HTTP, and can be served up by basically any web server. As a result, it's much easier to make it work with a CDN.

Thanks.

I guess the reason of having such poor support outside Apple browsers, despite the benefits, has to do with licensing issues and the complications of embedding ads, as someone pointed out.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by julianpye »

joosters wrote: post #346
julianpye wrote: post #307

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The crazy part is the Gold 'Edition' Version. It's not like a Swiss watch, which is sold to be passed on to new generations, since your children won't be happy to get such outdated tech. What will they do with old Gold versions? Smelt them?

Regarding the watch to be 'passed on to new generations', this is well worth reading: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/11/luxury_branding_the_f...

Thanks! Great insight into how watch marketing works...

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Post by laacz »

People will get used to iPhone6 size, though many of iPhone5 users will feel like unfarily forgotten. I was betting on iPhone6 being same size as 5s and another on just a tad larger - I was wrong.

Apple Watch does not bring anything exceptional to wrist devices world, though overall functionality and UX is much better than those of Android. It's just an accessory for iPhone. One thing they got right - wristwatch is personal, so it should be able to be made look personal and different.

I can't say much about Apple Pay. Payments via iPhone look nice (fingerprint as authorization method) but paying via Watch just does not look very secure to me - how are you going to add that one factor? Also, it's another proprietary way of paying for stuff, which just does not feel right...

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