Here's how to watch today's Apple event live
Apple is just a few hours away from making some major announcements, which could include a new iPhone, iPad, and updates to its Apple Watch.
Apple is preparing to make some major announcements during its “Let Us Loop You In” event, which will begin at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Many Apple fans are expecting the debut of a smaller iPhone, which is being called the iPhone SE, a smaller iPad Pro, additional watch bands, and an introduction of new features in iOS 9.3.
If you’re planning on taking your lunch break around the time Apple holds its event, you might need some help figuring out where exactly you can watch it live. Thankfully, Apple is planning on livestreaming its Let Us Loop You In event at this link.
Just like with previous livestreams, there are some hoops you’re going to have to jump through in order to watch along with everyone else. If you own an Apple device, you should be set as the stream will support the Safari browser on iOS devices using iOS 7 or later and Macs running OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion. Apple TV users can also stream the event on second- and third-generation Apple TV devices.
Own a PC and would still like to see what Apple has to announce? You’ll need a PC with Windows 10 installed as well as Microsoft Edge.
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Chrome/FFox don't do HLS.
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Apple have total control over their HLS video stream.
Every platform has significant drawbacks apart from handing control over to another party. You can't live-stream YouTube in some countries, Vimeo embedding is spotty and their infrastructure can't handle a couple million concurrent connections, and twitch embedding is a nightmare.
HLS can't be viewed easily on Windows. Apple can live with that.
There will be plenty of re-streams on twitch etc.
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I only use Edge for these occasions. It's not going to kill me to fire it up once every 3-4 months.
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Ah. Now I understand your gripe. Go for a live blog if that's the only way to get the info ASAP.
FYI: I'll be covering all of the big news from the event on the front page.
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newest Windows 10 fast track build just introduced extensions. Once that hits the official release I wouldn't be surprised if I switch over from Chrome/Firefox to Edge/Firefox. Since Chrome crashes for me at least once a day.
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This far it's been a snooze fest.
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Oh totally, it's important stuff, but it's not what I'm tuning in for :}
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Make that watch cost $199 and maybe I'll check it out.
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That is definitely the price point they should be shooting for.
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alternatively, they need to better articulate (and execute on) what the Watch does well to justify the $300-400 price point they prefer
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16 or 64
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64GB is $499
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I can't believe they are still pushing 16 GB...
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This is a company launching new versions of the same basic product every 1/2 years. Of course they want to push the narrative that anything that old is worthless.
Maybe it's just the nature of the crowd I run in, but damn near everyone I know outside of IT guys with money to burn use devices, be they phones, PCs, or other, until they outright stop working, and then upgrade. -
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of course. PCs have been overpowered for quite some time, happily churning away in their 2D workspace with ease, and people unwilling to upgrade because they see/feel no benefit to doing so. windows XP and IE7 and one 4:3 monitor just hanging in there.
meanwhile, in the mobile/peripheral world, there's real tangible upgrades going berzerk and people can see/feel *huge* benefits by upgrading at a rapid pace. laptops, tablets, smartphones all are getting the engineering love. PCs are not.
PCs can have a huge leap forward with 16GB ram, SSDs, and windows 10 for very little cost... and people would keep those for another 5 years. but again, back to the mobile/peripheral world, there would still be rapid turnover - that would not change. -
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it's sad if you're a technology company in the business of innovation. If you haven't provided a compelling upgrade experience in 5 years in the modern tech climate then that's not so good.
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It could be hardware related. My desktop is technically 8 years old (I've upgraded some components, hence technically). My laptop is 5 years old. Both run Windows 10 and I don't really have any problems. I'm looking to upgrade soon, but I could wait....I'm in no rush.
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yes, you have identified the problem.
Who gives the shit? The companies who want to sell devices and have a healthy ecosystem that is thought of as innovative.-
What technology in the past 5 years has come out for desktops and laptops that really warrant people upgrading besides just more processing power or faster. What has Apple offered? Microsoft? Again, to the other thread, convertibles are looking pretty intriguing because they have multi-purpose, but what else? If you're selling point is faster, then you're not going to get many upgrades to begin with. You can even look at tablets and phones. Almost 5 years ago, they released the iPhone 5. Today they released a new 5-esque phone that was just ... faster. How about the iPad? What has really been updated that makes the general population just want to update? Speed is a good selling point, but is that it?
Not to say there aren't some features I like. TouchID is really cool, but I could and have lived without. My iPad doesn't have TouchID and I'm okay with that. I think most people kind of fall into the same boat with a lot of what Apple is trying to do.-
yes, again, you identified the problem. People aren't upgrading PCs due to a lack of need and lack of enticement. That's bad if you're a computer company. Especially since enticement should be coming from software which doesn't necessarily need more compute power. They reached 'good enough' speeds for email and web browsing and then no one offered them a compelling new option. But mobile did. Mobile has improved massively in the past 5 years. Even if it was just on speed (it wasn't) that'd be huge because mobile wasn't at the 'good enough' part of the performance curve.
The iPad is indeed suffering from some similar problems to laptops.
The problem for PCs is that the center of gravity for hardware innovation is now ARM. And increasingly the software innovation is there too.
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No laptops :/
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laptops are the past for most
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Nah, that's what they want you to think, it'll happen one day, but iPad pros aren't going to be the thing to do it.
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that's true, laptops were getting eaten by tablets and phones long before the iPad Pro existed
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Yeah and all the professionals who are left aren't moving to tablets.
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laptops are the past for most
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Yeah, because laptops were the only mobile choice for a while. Of course when phones and tablets came about there were going to be some users who gravitate towards those options because they never needed what a laptop offers to begin with. But for those who actually need what a laptop offers, there's no compelling substitute. It's not that laptops are some archaic and unpopular device now, it's just that they aren't the only game in town anymore.
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right, laptops are appreciably worse for a lot of people a lot of the time compared to a phone or tablet. That some people will continue to need them is not in dispute, just that the total number of them and relative number compared to all those doing computing will shrink.
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no kidding. then LTE embedded laptops became a thing. my bosses love them. tablets have their place for some things, but when you need to Maximize your Utility, laptops have reached a great price/performance/weight era. tablets are cute little additions, but simply lack horsepower and usability for real output.
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and it's still true
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more laptops could be in use today than tablets and the statement 'laptops are the past for most' could still be true.
'they' weren't predicting laptops would be dead in 5 years. A bunch of clickbait-y blogs might have, but people who do actual informed business analysis certainly weren't.
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most as in people who don't have a real need for PC specific tasks/workflows (ex programmers, professional artists, etc). Some amount of it will persist due to inertia and familiarity for many years, even decades, (especially in enterprise) but they just offer so few advantages, and many disadvantages, compared to mobile/tablets.
I mean, assuming your parents are not super tech savvy what are they using laptops for that they couldn't do with the iPad? Still just email/web browsing but in a more familiar shell with a physical keyboard and lapability? The tablet is otherwise more secure, soon to be more powerful, better battery life, more sensors (TouchID and such), better software availability. So many advantages.-
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like 2012 or so?
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Maybe apple just gets out of the laptop business. They don't have a working update cycle. It takes them a year to put out a speed bump, and they have to hold an event to do it.
There are plenty of windows laptops that match the style/build of macbooks, with the same price points, and are consistently updated with current CPUs. The problem with pushing ipad pro as a platform is that it's iOS and apps, not OSX. The Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book have the right idea for converting users to tablets.-
Who is going to make the iOS apps? Why would the macbook just last year if they wanted to get out?
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Yes because clearly getting the entire news and tech media worlds to talk about your products all at the same time is pointless.
I think the real issue is they want to sell these things ASAP and so they have to be manufactured ahead of time and so of course one of the 10,000 factory workers required for a global launch is going to sneak some photos out. I mean for fucks sake they're manufacturing a device with a camera on it of course they can get spy shots relatively easily. There was a thing a while back where someone got sold an iPhone with some photos of factory workers on it because the last step in the process is apparently to boot the thing up and test things like the camera and this was like the one phone that didn't get reset for some reason. Seems like that would be the perfect time to sneak in a photo or two.
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So I have a hard time understanding why looking at blue light right before I go to sleep can affect my sleep patterns after I'm asleep in the dark and no longer looking at any sort of screen. A whole lot of scientists and engineers I assume believe or know otherwise so I doubt it's complete bullshit or anything but I'm just not understanding the connection. Anyone know of a good rundown as to why this is thought to be the case?
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our body likes to keep a sleep pattern/rhythm going. our body uses melatonin hormones to keep the rhythm, its a hormone that makes you tired and sleepy and is secreted around sleep time. to set/reset the sleep pattern clock, research has found our body uses blue light in particular to reset the clock, which happens generally when we wake up and see sunlight.
So lots of blue light at night might delay your melatonin release and delay your sleep. just google melatonin and blue light and you'll see some studies -
Because you touch yourself.
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Who has a doctor that gives a shit enough about them to bother with all this health stuff?
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I think the point is the opposite. To put individuals in greater control of their own health data and give companies an opportunity to fill that need (since obviously hospitals aren't about to start doing great iOS app development). Is my doctor going to proactively reach out to me on some of these things? No. But if I can go in to the doctor and now have an app that shows my daily blood sugar levels, diet, whatever then a much more concrete conversation happens around diagnosing and treating symptoms. More data is better.
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It would still be much better data if hospitals could be bothered to input all their data on you, you're sure paying enough for the service!
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