- I think the iPhone 2 is so obvious, Steve wont give a mention. Instead we will get a yellow submarine iphone at edge speed even under water. #
- for WWDC rolling live updates as long as twitter stays up http://wwdc.twistori.com/ #
- next feature to switched so twitter can stay online, Posting! #
- WWDC = Dig Let down so far – Demo’s are borng me to tears and i am 7000 miles away. #
- Apple is not on form today, not of form at all. I distinct lack of the usuall pizazz #
- At Last – Apple does not dissapoint #
- @leolaporte glad to see TWiT live is doing so well, enjoyed the coverage! It has nothing to do with Steve, build it and they will come. #
- o2 UK seems very scarce on the iPhone 3G details and there is a complete lack of prices on the Apple Store. #
How not to survive the onslaught of WWDC.
Twitter has come under attack for being a great service that has a poor record of up time Link1 – TechCrunch, Link 2 – TechCrunch. Well news on the street is Twitter survived the several thousand posts it recieved during WWDC, including my own meager posts. But at what cost.
I laughingly joked that the next feature for twitter to disable to ensure it stayed up, was to turn off twittering. In reality it was nearly at that point the following features were cut for the duration of the Keynote:
- @ Replies
- Everyone Tab
- Archive Tab
- Public Timeline
- Limit number of API requests from 30 Request Per Hour to 10
- Updates by SMS
- User Deletion and Restoration
It seems to me that the vast majority of the functionality of twitter was culled to ensure uptime, the community was just lobotomised with no thought. I applaud twitter for staying online, but it shouldn’t have cost the features that make Twitter, Twitter and not just some meta-blogging platform.
Twitter has got plenty of issues with scaling, if anything WWDC has proved that twitter cannot scale with demand. To use a analogy, a TV station does not cut the commentary of a football match because the system cannot cope with the demand, this is essentially what Twitter did to the community.
It looks like we were spot-on with our estimate of ten times the normal traffic today. Our preparations held and Twitter stayed up! Only one unexpected disruption occured and that was a network problem in our data center which caused a few minutes of service distruption some time after Steve Jobs’ keynote. With that single distruption, our uptime during the event was 97.3%
I love Twitter, and despite the fact I don’t really get it yet. I don’t want to see it disappear because it couldn’t handle its popularity.
WWDC Roundup – iPhone 3G & Mobile Me
WWDC was a bit of a let down, iphone alleys’ coverage by ustream however was fantastic. I was expecting more information and more products, not a grueling 45mins of demo’s of apps we cant use for a month, not quite the usual Apple finesse we have come to appreciate.
One important thing to note was Steve Job’s committed to pricing the new 8gb iPhone at no more that $199US in all 70 countries the iPhone 3g will be sold in by the end of the year. I hope this is the signal of a much bigger push by Apple to price equivalently in all countries. That said they create products people will gladly pay for in some cases even twice such as myself who will be upgrading come July 11th once again.
Surprisingly the announcement of OS X 10.6 dubbed Snow Leopard was pushed from the forefront of the announcement, giving credence to the fact it will not be a stability release just a fit and polish release to keep ahead of the competition. Also .mac will be no longer and be replaced by mobile me, which has to be an improvement of the aging .mac name and technology.
It was a bit of a let down in the fact that Steve had very little stage time, some reported as usually steve looked ill.
Shock Horror – There was no one more thing.
WWDC 08 Predictions – One More Thing?
Ok So heres my predications:
- iPhone 2,
- iPhone App Store
- New Firmware for existing iPhones
- New Version of OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard – Nice and shiny none feature release
- New Cinema Displays
- Updated Macbook Pro’s
- Twitter will die – Twitter Blog
- Lets not forget the one more thing that no one guesses, my money is on a Yellow Submarine iPhone and all the Beetles back catalogue on iTunes