One thing I forget, attending post-2020 Apple keynote events in person, is that everyone watching at home (or watching after the fact) has no idea what garnered applause and what did not. The USB-C announcement got raucous applause from the media section.
@gruber I was listening to this week’s Vergecast and they suggested applause came from Apple staff/family/friends and from influencers, rather than the media. Wouldn’t applause from journalists be a bit of an neutrality/integrity issue?
@andcam You’d think so, but I’ve been surprised over the years. The Asian press have a different culture, for one thing. And “influencers” are just “young members of the invited media”.
@gruber I find the lack of clapping and cheering extremely positive. You never knew how much of
it was just their own employees (especially retail) and I’d rather try to make up my own mind about the information provided and the way of presenting it.
And I also strongly believe that journalists shouldn’t clap or cheer at these kinds of events anyway. But that’s on another page.
@gruber one thing I miss is when they would do tilts and pans of the audience, and then suddenly went certain feature got announced suddenly the camera focused on a whole lot of Apple employees. I never found it dishonest or anything. It was just a fun way to read the room.
@gruber I noticed this at WWDC23. So cool to hear cheers from Apple employees in the rear. Made me want Atmos binaural sound from the developer’s section in the future.
@gruber This is useful meta-information. “Raucous applause” is one thing; “raucous applause from the media section” is potentially entirely another. Presumably there were others in the audience who were not applauding raucously?
@gruber Can you live-tweet groans every time Tim or any presenter says, take it to the next level, stunning, fantastic, gorgeous, remarkable, incredible, the most advanced, and we can't wait for you to try it, etcetera. The terms have almost no meaning any more. Iteration is fine, and I know they have to pump up the excitement, but pre-recorded presentations just makes all the superlatives seem like a laugh track
@gruber wonder if a poll is worth having to gather insights if people care for this. I for one don’t care for this & found the keynote constantly paused whilst the audience cheers & clap for something a bit cringey - the fluidity of the video presentation is a huge step forward imo.
@gruber Interesting. And these were the same folks who then turned around and wrote articles about how the average iPhone user was going to hate having to buy new cables?
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