I would also pay to see the Keynote. It's unfortunate that TechTV or some other cable channel can't cut a deal with Apple to show it live.
TechTV is gone, and Apple abandoned the live keynote broadcast before TechTV was ever gone. Although the satellite feed and TechTV broadcast were the best ways to watch.
What would be cool, is if they released QT8 the day before the show in a press release, and said "Watch the keynote Live in only in QT8" and then did the demo of new, or updated QT features in the keynote.
I don't think any Apple stores have the capacity to do it.
Actually, I remember going up to the Tampa Apple Store for a live broadcast of a keynote, back when FCP was still a standalone product? The place was packed, and we were all getting nervous since the satellite link was down, but they got it fixed in time for the beginning of the keynote.
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What would be cool, is if they released QT8 the day before the show in a press release, and said "Watch the keynote Live in only in QT8" and then did the demo of new, or updated QT features in the keynote.
That is an excellent idea, but would make for a huge server load while everyone downloaded QT8. If apple were to try this, they best get some serious mirroring of their servers going on, from coast to coast. Maybe Apple needs to up the bandwidth of the Apple Stores (currently using T1 lines?) and drop a rack filled with Xserves into each store. Then, when a user goes to the Apple website, they would be automatically shunted to the Apple Store cluster node closest to them.
Who knows, someday every Apple Store may also house a quality data center serving the Mac faithful?!
Hell, this could even extend to .Mac moving from a collection of online services to Apple actually becoming a full-blown broadband ISP someday?
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I would also pay to see the Keynote. It's unfortunate that TechTV or some other cable channel can't cut a deal with Apple to show it live.
TechTV is gone, and Apple abandoned the live keynote broadcast before TechTV was ever gone. Although the satellite feed and TechTV broadcast were the best ways to watch.
What would be cool, is if they released QT8 the day before the show in a press release, and said "Watch the keynote Live in only in QT8" and then did the demo of new, or updated QT features in the keynote.
I don't think any Apple stores have the capacity to do it.
Actually, I remember going up to the Tampa Apple Store for a live broadcast of a keynote, back when FCP was still a standalone product? The place was packed, and we were all getting nervous since the satellite link was down, but they got it fixed in time for the beginning of the keynote.
What would be cool, is if they released QT8 the day before the show in a press release, and said "Watch the keynote Live in only in QT8" and then did the demo of new, or updated QT features in the keynote.
That is an excellent idea, but would make for a huge server load while everyone downloaded QT8. If apple were to try this, they best get some serious mirroring of their servers going on, from coast to coast. Maybe Apple needs to up the bandwidth of the Apple Stores (currently using T1 lines?) and drop a rack filled with Xserves into each store. Then, when a user goes to the Apple website, they would be automatically shunted to the Apple Store cluster node closest to them.
Who knows, someday every Apple Store may also house a quality data center serving the Mac faithful?!
Hell, this could even extend to .Mac moving from a collection of online services to Apple actually becoming a full-blown broadband ISP someday?
;^p