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Thursday, January 06, 2005, 11:00 pm
News Flash: Jobs kills realtime feed of Macworld keynote speech?
For the first time in several years, Apple Computer may not provide a live feed of its opening keynote presentation at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, reportedly miffed over a series new product leaks, has abruptly pulled the plug on the realtime webcast and satellite broadcast of his Macworld Expo keynote, according to an Apple memo forwarded to the MacInTouch website.
The message reads, in part, "Apple will not be making satellite coordinates available. Although the keynote WILL be available on our web site - it will NOT be available until sometime AFTER the keynote is over. They do NOT have a time determined, so it may not be immediately after the keynote is over. "
For the past several years, Apple has provided its loyal fans and customers with a webcast video stream of Jobs' Macworld keynote speeches. The company has also broadcasted the event at its retail stores through satellite.
Inquires at several Apple retail stores confirm that, sadly, no broadcast is scheduled to take place next Tuesday; leaving all those who are unable to attend the expo -- as well as the millions of folks who do not read Apple rumor sites -- on the edge of their seats for at least a couple hours longer.
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AAAHHHH! They are punishing us! 
Good thing I'm working tomorrow or else I will be dying in front of the computer waiting on apple's site
Lots of past Apple Events have been available only afterward. I hadn't realized that none of those were in San Francisco, but regardless, that has been the trend. Guess I'll have to settle for (hopefully) text updates!
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Originally posted by Ichiban_jay
AAAHHHH! They are punishing us!
Good thing I'm working tomorrow or else I will be dying in front of the computer waiting on apple's site
AAAHHHH! They are punishing us!
Good thing I'm working tomorrow or else I will be dying in front of the computer waiting on apple's site
No, just do what most people do. Go to MacNN or MacIntouch or MacMinute or one of any other sites as they recap as things go on. Big flippin' deal.
And was last year's webcast? I didn't think it was.
Where's the evidence that Jobs did this because he was pissed about the leaks? That's not in the Macintouch memo.
Jobs shouldn't be pissed about rumor sites, it keeps interest in his products thriving.
I think I remember one keynote where it was thought that a broadcast wouldn't be available, but about a day or so before, it changed.
They really ought to broadcast it live on some cable network, it would certainly draw as much audience as an infomercial.
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Originally posted by Louzer
And was last year's webcast? I didn't think it was.
And was last year's webcast? I didn't think it was.
Yes, last years was webcast.
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Originally posted by Louzer
No, just do what most people do. Go to MacNN or MacIntouch or MacMinute or one of any other sites as they recap as things go on. Big flippin' deal.
No, just do what most people do. Go to MacNN or MacIntouch or MacMinute or one of any other sites as they recap as things go on. Big flippin' deal.
Except 90% of the time those sites crash during a big event. They have never had a MacWorld SF keynote without QT, and thats Apple's biggest event. If they couldn't handle it before, they aren't going to be able to handle the bandwidth this go around.
At least the stream was reliable if you got on early and had a good connection.
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Originally posted by BRussell
Where's the evidence that Jobs did this because he was pissed about the leaks? That's not in the Macintouch memo.
Where's the evidence that Jobs did this because he was pissed about the leaks? That's not in the Macintouch memo.
My thought exactly. It's being reported all over the Mac Web that Jobs shut down the webcast to spite rumor-following Mac users
But nowhere does MacInTouch give any reason to think any such thing.Of course Steve Jobs was involved in the decision to broadcast his own Keynote or not. But we know NOTHING of the reasons--business, technical (recent buzz = servers swamped?)... or spite
well, i hope think secret is enjoying this. they had it coming.
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That's a shame.
I had been hoping to watch it as soon as I could, being ready to switch for a few months now and wanting to see what happens. Oh well, hopefully they'll have it out a few hours afterwards, because I probably wouldn't have been able to see it live anyways.
Now if it's a couple of days...