Posts tagged ipad
Apple live streaming music event to test new data center?
Sep 1st
Cult of Mac claims a source has told them Apple is live streaming today’s special music event as a way to test their massive new, North Carolina data center, set to go fully operational later this year.
Apple’s first live video broadcast in years is a test of the server farm’s ability to stream a future version of iTunes for iOS devices, our tipster says.
“The goal is to monitor traffic load and quality,” says our tipster, who asked to remain anonymous to preserve their connections at Apple.
Apple product events are the Oscars or Superbowls of the Internet, with traffic numbers high enough to take down the biggest sites, and sometimes entire data centers (plural). So if they’re going to test something as bandwidth intensive as video, does it make sense to test it under the harshest conditions imaginable?
Either way, we’ll find out soon enough how it holds up. Hey, why not watch along with us?
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Apple Special Music Event — Watch along with TiPb! [Sticky]
Sep 1st
Apple will be streaming this year’s special music event live, and we’ll be here to provide all the color and commentary you’ve grown to love… or to love to hate. So if you’re watching, come watch with us. The party starts at 12:45pm, EDT right here on this very post.
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Fox, ABC to offer $0.99 iTunes rentals, CBS, NBC to keep heads buried in sand?
Sep 1st
“People familiar with the situation” (yes, them again) have told the Wall Street Journal that both Fox and ABC are good to go on $0.99 iTunes TV show rentals, and will be announced later today at Apple’s special music event. Since ABC is owned by Disney, whose largest shareholder is Steve Jobs, their getting on board isn’t a huge surprise. Likewise, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox, introduced Jobs at D8 and is all up in Apple rescuing print media (like the Wall Street Journal) and TV alike.
NBC, recently sold to Comcast — whose cable empire would compete with iTunes — and CBS, who likely isn’t sure what these new fangled ‘puters and gizmos are all about anyway, is disappointing but also not surprising.
How this will mix and match with Netflix and other, similar apps already on iPad and iPhone — and rumored to be coming to a new Apple TV — is also unknown. $0.99 a pop might not be enough for myopic media companies, but compared to a far bigger Netflix pipe at $10-$15 per month, it’s likely too much for high volume consumers.
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Apple to live stream September 1 special music event
Sep 1st
Throwing caution — and bandwidth! — to the wind, Apple has just announced that tomorrow, for the first time in recent memory, they’ll be live streaming one of their keynote events:
Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.
No word on Windows, Linux, Android, webOS, or any other kind of compatibility, so have your Apple gear ready. TiPb will be following along and providing our usual commentary and color so if you plan on watching, come watch along with us.
[Apple PR]
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Do you still regularly sync your iPhone with iTunes?
Aug 31st
Tomorrow at their annual special music event, Apple might announce a new version of iTunes (iTunes X?) — maybe with $0.99 TV rentals or streaming cloud music — and thinking about that made me realize I hardly if ever sync my iPhone with iTunes anymore.
Just before iPhone 4 came out the Apple Store swapped out my 3GS due to cracks along the dock that had been preventing me from syncing. Because I couldn’t sync, I’d been downloading apps directly onto my iPhone, streaming podcasts via the iTunes app (iOS 4 made that rock solid), and otherwise existing pretty much entirely from the cloud.
When I got my replacement iPhone 3GS, I just stuck in my MobileMe, Exchange, and Google logins and all my personal and work data started syncing over the air (OTA). I re-downloaded the few apps I use regularly — Twitter, RSS, online file storage, password management, etc. and I was fully operational before I left the store. (Though, yes, they did have to tether it to iTunes in the Apple Store to activate it, and if not I would have had to do so when I got home.)
When I got my iPhone 4, same thing.
Now I do sync my iPad to iTunes a lot and I have way more apps — especially games — on my iPad than I do on my iPhone. The introduction of iPad and iOS 4 for iPhone, however, let me change my habits enough that my iPhone is now pretty much iTunes free. I can’t remember the last time I synced (probably for iOS 4.0.2 and it annoyed me when iTunes pulled off apps I’d re-downloaded because they weren’t checked off on the desktop side — can’t we do a sync for most recent changes on that?)
How about you, do you still regularly sync your iPhone with iTunes? As much as you used to? Why or why not?
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Why we probably won’t see iOS 4 for iPad next week
Aug 26th
Next week, when Apple holds its annual special music event, we probably won’t get iOS 4 for iPad. We’ll almost certainly see that new iPod touch 4 with Retina Display and FaceTime and an announcement about iOS 4.1 for iPhone general availability, probably for later that week. But if iOS 4.1 was going to be the grand unification, universal binary edition for iPad, it would have been released for developers over two months ago when it was released for iPhone and iPod touch.
Sure, Steve Jobs could simply announce iOS 4.1 and release it for iPad right then and there on stage — if any company could be accused of being inoculated against the cries and concerns of developers, it’s Apple. But even Apple has a pattern of releasing betas for significant OS updates. Simply put, to do otherwise could lead to broken apps and unhappy customers and that’s not in anyone’s best interests.
Chad and others have argued that iOS 3.2 for iPad is already pretty close to iOS 4, and that’s a fair point. However, iOS 4 contained a large number of new API, including multitasking, and developers are going to want time to test against them, and against anything unforeseen that might cause problems for their apps between iOS 3.2 and iOS 4.
The most likely scenario I can come up with is that Steve Jobs announces a beta version of iOS 4.2 for iPad next week and after several betas, releases it to the public in October or November — a timeframe that’s been rumored for a while now.
I mentioned this yesterday on Twitter and several really smart mobile folks think I’m wrong. Some really smart mobile folks who are also developers seemed to think they’d need somewhere around 4 weeks of beta lead time, at least.
There’s nothing I’d love more than iOS 4.1 for iPad next week, but while Apple is secretive they’re also fairly good at sticking to patterns. And the pattern here is several beta releases before a general release.
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What do you expect to see at Apple’s special music event on Sept 1?
Aug 26th
Steve Jobs is once again about to set sneaker to stage for the iOS-packed annual special music event, and expectations are running the gamut from iPod touch 4 with Retina Display and FaceTime to a tiny touch iPod nano to an all new Apple iTV, from iOS 4.1 for iPhone to iOS 4.x for iPad, from a new iLife to iTunes X, from $0.99 TV rentals to full on iTunes.com streaming.
We won’t get everything we want, and we may get “one more thing” we didn’t expect, but take your best guess in the poll above and hedge in the comments below.
We’re less than a week away!
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