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Comment by ciarannolan | Hacker News Reader

Do people still watch these live?

I find them really hard to watch. It's about 95% fluff and bullshit and 5% about the technology. I usually just read the bullet summary afterwards.

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I started watching the keynotes with 2 tech friends when I was like 16 years old and as we grew older (am 27 now) they are the only events across the year where we sit down, talk a bit about tech and make fun of all the stupid bullshit in the keynote.

Watched for a little bit, gave up. I used to find them very interesting back in the Jobs era, but now they're pretty boring. I think partly it's just because the tech is maturing so there's less exciting stuff to show, but it's also definitely down to a much less crisp presentation style.

I have zero interest in Apple, never owned one since the very first iPod mini, but I still find their marketing department to be fantastic. These virtual keynotes also have amazing production quality.

I do agree the talking parts could be maybe 50% shorter though.

I usually watch the twit.tv ones - they livestream the apple show and talk over it, with vaguely interesting and amusing commentary. The link https://twit.tv/shows/twit-news/episodes/364?autostart=false

It's exciting just because video quality is excellent than real live event.

I have it on in the background. I'm triaging email at the same time.

People need to feel like something substantial has happened so they can talk and get excited about it. Look around at the impact it's having!

I try to, if only so that I can get ahead of the headlines and opinion pieces. I like to form my own opinions first.

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