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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 xienze »

hobarrera wrote: post #42

"Our live broadcast begins at 10 a.m. PDT." Considering that the entire world uses GMT, and that only US citizens use PDT, they could have bothered to use GMT. Or better still, they could have detected your location/system time and just put a countdown or your own local time.

Or you could just Google the time in your timezone yourself.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by epmatsw »

RexRollman wrote: post #44

I'm getting older, so maybe my desires don't match up with the majority of tech people's anymore, but does anyone really want an iWatch (or whatever it ends up being called)? I am just not sold on the usefulness of such a thing.

I too am skeptical, but I also felt the same way before the iPad announcement. So I will wait and see.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by mbrubeck »

[deleted] wrote: post #33

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I can't reproduce this in either Chrome or Firefox. All of the requests I see are to the http://www.apple.com origin. I also can't find any hard-coded https://www.apple.com URLs in the HTML+JS sources. Maybe they fixed it already, or maybe you have a browser extension that's modifying the requests on your end.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by xienze »

RexRollman wrote: post #44

I'm getting older, so maybe my desires don't match up with the majority of tech people's anymore, but does anyone really want an iWatch (or whatever it ends up being called)? I am just not sold on the usefulness of such a thing.

It's not just you. I don't get the whole smartwatch thing either. For $400 (or whatever it ends up costing), I can just pull my phone out of my pocket.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by [deleted] »

bla2 wrote: post #36
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.

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Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by WildUtah »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #17

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

Half the stories on the front page will be Apple stories within the next two hours.

The ranking algorithm will drop them off soon enough. Maybe the time coefficient should be stronger for days like today, though.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by lordbusiness »

mathieuh wrote: post #45
lordbusiness wrote: post #24

Can anyone recall if iOS goes GM / public release on the day of this? Or do we have to wait a week?

iOS major versions are usually released soon after the actual phone is released, so still another week or two to wait.

That rings a bell - thank you. :-)

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by grecy »

christoph wrote: post #29
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.

I wonder how much outside the realms of possibility a VR headset could be...? They have patents and seem to have become more serious about 3D graphics lately. Maybe I'm just dreaming though. Maybe a wearable could be something to allow an iPhone/iPod type device to function as headset?

I'm thinking something alone those lines... for TV.

I still expect Apple to do something very, very big with TV.

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