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Apple Nixes Live Webcast, Satellite Feed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the see-no-evil dept.

spamguy writes "MacInTouch reports that Steve Jobs' January 11th MacWorld Expo keynote address may not be broadcast live in any way. If you were hoping to watch Stevie present the rumoured sub-$500 Mac, the Motorola phone, the Flash iPod, and/or the office suite, you now have no choice but to buy your plane tickets to San Francisco ASAP."

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  1. Well... by JavaMoose · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Hopefully some of the more adept Apple users will figure out a way to stream this.

    I mean, shit, this is pratically begging for someone to use their Powerbook and iSight to do this.

  2. Re:Whaaa? by ivano · · Score: 5, Interesting
    well not to sound like a fanboy but Steve is a damn good speaker/presenter. he doesn't behave like a monkey to get people motivated. he doesn't "umm" and "ah" his way through it. He's cool and polished. And to be honest what's better than seeing a demo or the product itself than waiting for it to be "filterd" by the media. I want demos not snide comments by a 95% Windows dominated media (qv iPod-killer stories).

    Ciao

  3. To big an audience? by CrackedButter · · Score: 4, Interesting


    From all accounts, there is huge interest in this macworld, its being hyped up and they might fear that the webcast cannot handle any sort of predicted load. Instead they will just release it later after all the fanfare and the need to watch it dies away. Just as everyone says, it'll be out on the net anyway moments after the annoucement.
    In any case I'll stay off the mac websites until its out for streaming, I want to be equally disappointed like I was last year when GarageBand was demoed for something like 2 hours with some no name artist looking interested. :)

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