Re: WWDC 2005 DVDs [OT]
Re: WWDC 2005 DVDs [OT]
- Subject: Re: WWDC 2005 DVDs [OT]
- From: Simon Liu <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:34:15 +0000
Flogging a dead horse here, but... Apple's decision may end up
encouraging people to time-shift the material in fear of it being
removed, and in doing so, most likely break ADC membership terms.
Sad, eh?
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I asked ADC reps about the DVDs back at WWDC. Mainly it was to
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register my periodic request that the DVDs be sent out sooner, even if
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it meant that they'd be a rough cut of some sort rather than the
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polished product that they usually are.
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They said there would be no DVDs, but that the videos would be
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available online. I thought that was OK, but only because it didn't
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occur to me that the videos would only be available for streaming, not
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for downloading.
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Earlier this year I contacted ADC about this, but all I could get our
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of them was standard question-dodging, no real answers about anything
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at all.
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I don't know why Apple would do this. I mean, why shouldn't I be able
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to watch the video offline? Why shouldn't I be able to watch it at
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some point after Apple's decided not to keep them on their servers
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anymore? It wouldn't be the first time I had watched WWDC videos more
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than a year after the fact, but apparently Apple objects to me doing
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so, or something.
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On the whole I'm happy with Apple's developer programs, but this
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decision really, really sucks.
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--
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Tom Harrington
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AIM: atomicbird1
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