Apple WWDC 2014 Live Streaming

How did you find this; my google skills failed me.

Thanks. I can't thank you enough.

Here's the network stream link so you don't have to download the file: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14poiunaepo...

Except that DropBox is still cheaper, has a good app, stores file revision history, syncs across various operating systems. Dropbox always seemed to me to be a bit more sophisticated product than just "I want a backup in the Cloud" type thing, and I doubt anyone who's using it more than just a simple one-computer/one-OS backup system will leave. And I guess it gets most of its revenue from business accounts anyway?

It's true, to some degree they should be worried. However, I'm not sure how much they actually have to fear.

While I do like the new Continuity features (and I'm somewhat of a cloud skeptic), I don't see myself sharing files over iCloud with my friends anytime soon.

Another thing that strikes me is, while I do use Dropbox a lot to sync across my devices, and those devices are almost always Macs, I'm also a toxic Dropbox user. Dropbox should not want to keep me as a "customer": I'm on the free plan, totally maxed out storage space by taking part in every conceivable promo, relatively high bandwidth usage, across a lot of devices. There is no possible reason for Dropbox to want me continue using them.

Apple must have been inspired by Ubuntu's "built in spyware". Their search box also sends queries to the cloud by default. Richard Stallman must be thrilled: http://www.zdnet.com/free-software-father-declared-ubuntu-li...

And also your text messages and phone calls!

Is there a stream for Linux users? (without vm)

I'm certain there will be people on UStream and livestream doing mirrors.

Off topic, but your post tweaked my brain's processing. I read those not as bullet points, but as a boolean search.

"It needs to be an Apple device, but not iOS, not Safari on OSX, and not an Apple TV."

I was trying to figure out what Apple Devices were left for a second before it clicked ;)

In the past I've been able to get around this requirement by getting the stream directly. If today's anything like previous events, should be able to use these URLs to open in VLC (the URLs will change when the stream goes live):

http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14poiunaepo...

Apple fan here, but this doesn't make sense at all. Foolish and arrogant.

If you are using Chrome press F12 to open the devtools. Then press Esc and to to the "Emulation" tab. now choose an iPad or something and spoof your user agent as that.

it's dumb, but i think that should work. You will need to have QuickTime installed though, I don't think there's a way around that.

Yes, this upsets me a bit. I like to watch live product announcements.

Or there are some live talkings http://www.ustream.tv/leolaporte

Apple does user agent sniffing? Is Safari becoming the next IE?

Macrumors usually does ok, and has a nice auto-refresh feature that I leave running

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/02/wwdc-2014-keynote-live/

Too bad greg's not there, though. He's the best liveblogger ever.

The video is actually about 35 seconds behind the text live streams too.

I'd imagine these users will have to go through a process that proves they don't just have the link but can also access the email account in question. Just like email subscription confirmations work.

It probably cuts down on the number of people that can stream it making it less expensive for Apple and the stream more stable. And at the end of the day it's an Apple developer conference - Apple developers typical have Apple hardware which this can be viewed on.

Google benefits from everybody using the web. Apple benefits when people use their ecosystem. Thus Apple restricting the webcast to Safari makes sense, and Google not limiting access to just Chrome does not make sense.