Apple Will Live Stream Tomorrow’s Entertainment Event — Mac and iOS only

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Apple Will Live Stream Tomorrow’s Entertainment Event — Mac and iOS only

With the rumor-mill at a fever-pitch for tomorrow’s guitar-shaped event, Apple announced today that it will provide a live video stream as Steve Jobs introduces various new pieces of hardware and software and holds them next to his head. The stream will go live at Apple.com at 10 a.m. PDT tomorrow, and the excitement will build for the next hour.

But there’s a catch — you need to watch on an iOS device or a Mac with Snow Leopard. So you Windows, Linux, Android, and even older Mac users will need to stay tuned to Cult of Mac for live updates. See you tomorrow!

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  • Lynch

    I wonder why you need an apple device…?

  • Kate

    Lame. It’s not like I have a choice of what computer I’m forced to use at work. Stupid XP ruining everything.

  • yara

    I can’t help but think there’s a connection between this and something they’ll be announcing. Sort of a way to say “yeah, we can stream video to millions of people easily now—we’re doing it right now.” Then comes the Apple TV/streaming iTunes video/whatever announcement. don’t get me wrong, I love my apple tv, but unlike most people I have ripped dozens of seasons of tv shows and hundreds of movies with aneesoft video converter for instant streaming.

  • n8

    yara, i think u may be on to something

  • Brandon

    Hell yeah, just because I want to, i will watch it on my 3G and on my Macbook.

  • rachel

    I really dont care about the apple-device only thing: i will have my iPod touch and my MacBook and i will be able to attend te conference (if the internet is not too slow, school networks sucks)

  • king

    I actually encourage this kind of action.
    A lot of companies are ignoring mac users like games, flash, autocad just came back, blackberry application, and more.

    Let them get a taste of how it feels not to be supported. Apple and others should do more of this kind of thing until everyone supports all platforms out there

  • Alfred

    This will be so much fun. Better than accidentally seeing something on the news before Apple puts up the keynote.

    ..//..

    Regarding numbers, I wonder how many people would tune in? Millions? Really? I doubt it.

    I know it’s Apple, but still, 10:00 am PDT is when everyone is either asleep in Asia, still at work or travelling home from work in Europe, or just starting work in the Americas. How many persons bosses would be happy for them to sit at their computer watching a 1 hour live press conference/sales pitch? Although only 1% could, since it only works on Macs or iOS anyway. And again, who would be willing to pay money to download all that data to their iPhone or iPad? with their boss (or teacher) looking over their shoulder? I doubt it is many.

    So the only people watching will be:

    1) Europeans who just got home from work through rush hour traffic and would rather watch a press conference that make dinner… and happen to own a Mac or iPad.
    2) Unemployed Americans who also happen to own Macs.
    3) Journalists.

    So will it be millions? I think it unlikely.

  • Alfred

    P.S. and by 1% I mean the number of Macs in use in office jobs, not at private homes (just before someone calls me out on that) ;) Unless that is much higher now, but I doubt it.

  • Neil

    It’s probably just because they’ll stream it using HTTP Live Streaming rather than RTSP and Apple don’t have support for it on Windows yet.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

    I’d imagine that it’ll work fine if you use a Windows application which supports HTTP Live Streaming, I think VLC does.

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