Apple has closed the online Apple Store for maintenance. The Media Event starts not long from now, and as is tradition the Apple Store is not available at the moment. Expect the store to be online again after the keynote. The reason to put the store offline is often because Apple introduces new products. After the keynote you can likely check out a video of the keynote, but you can also take a close look at the information about the new products.
Live Stream, Twitter Coverage And Summary
For several years Apple decided not to go for a live stream of their events. Today is a special day, because Apple will be streaming their keynote live for the first time since years. Apple did an official announcement yesterday.
Apple will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apples 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.
Apparently it is not possible to view the live stream if you’re on a windows or linux machine. The stream is only compatible with a Mac, iPod touch, iPhone or iPad.
While the protocol has been proposed as a standard, so far Apple is one of a few companies who has implemented it. As a result, the video will only be easily viewable on the specified platforms. There seem to be some advantages to the system over existing streaming technologies. Notably, there should be no router/firewall issues as the stream is sent over standard HTTP protocols. (via MacRumors)
You can try and find out if you are able to follow the live stream by using the following link: this HTTP Live sample stream. This link will offer a free sample of the stream.
Server Farm
As to why Apple is delivering a live stream of the presentation, some people say Apple wants to test their new server farm. An anonymous tipster said: “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. The goal is to monitor traffic load and quality”. (source: cult of mac)
I’ll also be doing a Twitter coverage. The most important bits of information of today’s keynote will be posted in the form of tweets on iPadFreakz’s official Twitter-account: iPadFreakz Twitter. So for those of you who are unable to follow the live stream, maybe the twitter coverage is a nice alternative option.
Summary
When Steve Jobs ends his keynote, I’ll be posting a summary of the event, so you can calmly read about today’s music event. You’ll be able to read about the latest iPod touch and possibly about a new iPod nano, iTV and iOS 4.1 as well. Hope to see you back and have a happy “Apple Event”.
Dev Team: “No Jailbreak For iOS 3.2.2 For iPad”
Recently the Dev Team launched the ‘jailbreakme campaign’, but Apple sealed the leak and now they are not going to release a jailbreak for iOS 3.2.2 or 4.0.2 for the iPad. They hope a future 4.1x jailbreak might be compatible with 4.0.2/3.2.2, but they also say not to count on that too much. Have you updated the iPad to 3.2.2? or your iPhone to 4.0.2, don’t wait for a jailbreak to arrive.
Now it’s a few weeks later, and Apple has closed the jailbreakme.com hole. They’re shipping devices with FW 4.0.2/3.2.2, impervious to this particular jailbreak. So now, people will begin to ask: will there be a jailbreak for devices that shipped with 4.0.2/3.2.2, out of the box?
No, there won’t be. FW 4.0.2/3.2.2 was *only* released to fix the jailbreakme hole. With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the “cat & mouse” with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes. To quote WOPR, “the only winning move is not to play”.
Source: Dev Team Blog
iPadFreakz: New Poll, Video And Countdown
Hello everybody. I have finally updated the countdown, added a new poll and changed the video. The video now shows the latest iPad ad that shows off the many features of the still magical device. The countdown has been updated to count down to september 1st, when Apple will deliver their new keynote.
The previous poll has been answered quite well, with over 60 votes. The question was: “Will you buy the iPad?”. More then 9% voted on “Yes, as soon as it’s available”. Interestingly, the second place answer says: “No, I’ll wait till version 2 comes out”. A little more then 8,5% voted on that answer. While 6,6% said they’d already pre-ordered the iPad, 5,3% of the people don’t know what to do with it and 6% of the people just couldn’t decide yet. Another 5,3% of the people wait till iOS 4 comes out.
I’ve now started a new poll. The question this time is: “What kind of Apple iPad accessories have you bought?“. Multiple answers are permitted. Let’s see what the results of this poll will be. I have bought the camera connection kit. I decided to buy a different iPad case and have bought the wireless keyboard instead of the keyboard dock.
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