Welcome to World of Livestreaming, Apple

For almost three years, we've been bringing you video of everything Apple, including our own brand of live coverage of Apple events. Well Apple is finally doing what we've advocated to them publically and privately for quite some time: they will be livestreaming today's press event. 

Years ago, Apple was WAY ahead of the curve, making most of their keynotes available live, in an age before most people had access to a high-speed internet connection. Now they're back. Is it just a coincidence that they are choosing this event to stream? Does it perhaps tie into a video streaming-related announcement? The next Apple TV, perhaps?

TDL Live This Week: (8/10 - 8/17)

It's time for TDL Live, our weekly look back at the last week in tech news. In this week's show, we talk about AT&T downplaying possibly losing their iPhone exclusivity, whether the Verizon iPhone is already too late, and Apple's growing dominance of the education market. 

Also, I reveal a story from my Apple past. Enjoy!

Retro Tech Tuesday: Apple's Blue Busters

Given the popularity of last week's retro post from the Oct. 1984 International Apple sales meeting, we decided to go back once more to youtube user jimhoyt for this week's retro clip. This week, on the heels of the popularity of Ghost Busters and the song of the same name, Apple thought it would be fun (internally, at least) to marry the hot song with their plans to take out IBM, otherwise known as Big Blue. Here then, we present, Blue Busters:

Retro Tech Tuesday: Apple Sales Time Capsule

According to the youtube poster (jimhoyt), this video was part of a presentation at an Apple sales  meeting in 1984. It's a fast-paced, rah, rah, look at the super-early years of the company. Sure today we take the Ken Burns effect for granted, but the sheer number of zooms and pans on stills must have really gotten the blood pumping in the summer of '84:

Apple's Friday Press Conference: Our Expectations

First, a note to the TDL mailman: Please stop losing our invites to official Apple events. Now then...

Apple has announced they will hold a press conference on Friday, regarding the iPhone 4. What could possibly come from this unorthodox (for Apple) event?

One of the most obvious questions is, will this be a press event, or a press conference? Despite being billed as the latter, will the press really be free to ask questions as one would expect in any other conference, or is conference simply being used in place of "event" to denote this is not a positive news event?

Second, will there be an iPhone 4 recall? Well others have argued quite logically that giving users free bumpers would solve the issue, and cost Apple significantly less than a full recall. Think about how much fun the Apple community would have at the expense of say, Dell, if they shipped a product that only optimally worked without a silly band of plastic around it. Apple will most likely offer some sort of fix to users that doesn't require the use of plastic. While I doubt that's a full recall, perhaps they've found a way to make an in-store adjustment to the metal portion of the phone and fix the issue.

Then again, this might simply be to announce iOS 4.1 which "addresses" the issue by showing fewer (but taller) bars. I can't imagine Apple would be that foolish this late in the game, unless the software update truly fixes the underlying issue, which seems somewhat improbable right now.