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January 12, 2007

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Download the keynote on iTunes

Posted Jan. 12, ’07, 12:50 PM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple » Events

Keynote Have you still not see Tuesday’s keynote? Rather than suffer through a potential streaming nightmare, you can download it off iTunes. It’s a heady, heavy download weighing in at 1.21 GB. Those without patience and a good connection, give up now. I’m trying to download it using a wireless connection here which is hovering between 50 and 70 KB/s and it’s predicting 7 hours.

But wait, there’s more. It’s being distributed as a podcast, not as a store download. This means several things. First, it’s not wrapped up in DRM. Second, it seems to hint that Apple may do this in the future. After all, having a subscribe button for a single episode would be a little bizarre. Thus, I believe this may become the preferred method for Apple fans to watch keynotes (as Apple doesn’t stream them anymore).

[Thanks to Ricardo]


3 Comments

jayH said:

it's done is less than fifteen minutes for me, but ahve the fastest iinternet i've ever heard of

god bless RCN.

and what o u mean apple is not streaming it anymore?

January 12, 2007 5:26 PM
Island in the Net Author Profile Page said:

Took me about 10 minutes here on the East Coast (Patriot Media Cable, 7Mb/s)

January 13, 2007 6:10 AM
Derik Author Profile Page said:

I meant stream them live. Those were the days.

January 13, 2007 10:14 AM

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