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We get it. The wild overreaction to COVID-19 — blanket lockdowns, useless cloth masks (safe not to use when eating (smirk)), plexiglass partitions that did absolutely nothing, abjectly stupid “6-feet apart” stickers on floors, etc., etc., etc. — necessitated the suspension of live presentations at Apple events.
Yet, it’s 2023 now and even China — which very likely engineered and let loose COVID-19, partially funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, no less — has finally exhausted its prodigious authoritarian inclinations and largely resumed normal life. Regardless, Apple plans to continue doing canned keynotes.
Mark Gurman via ??:
Not that there was any doubt, but Sept 12 event is being prepared as an in-person launch. So recorded video + people watching at the Apple campus + hands on afterwards. Same as the iPhone 14.
José Adorno for BGR:
As a journalist, I covered press conferences in the most diverse places with different styles of keynotes and executives. Still, none of them offered the same experience as an Apple event. In 2019, I covered the last in-person WWDC in San Jose, California.
Being surrounded by developers from all over the world, international media, and Apple staff was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime experience. During the keynote, I saw developers cheering about the latest software updates and gasping when Apple introduced the all-new Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR.
But it seems Apple prefers to move on from Steve Jobs-like keynotes to error-proof presentations that only a recorded video can bring. The events are faster, but they lose that special Apple touch only a live keynote could have.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote back in September 2022:
It’s highly likely that Apple’s pre-taped, edited special event videos are with us for the foreseeable future due to the significant reduction on demand on executive presenters’ time alone. The hands-on area and access to Apple executives at these events are easily strong enough draws for the media to attend in person: Watch the movie, then play with — or at least see — and photograph the actual tech afterwards with an executive Q&A. It obviously works.
If Apple ever again gets a dynamic, charismatic CEO who’s mastered on-stage live presentations, we may return to such events, but, for now, enjoy the videos!
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