Harry McCrackenSep 8, 2023

In honor of the fact I plan to live-post here about Apple's iPhone event next week, I'm going to share my live coverage of Apple's Macworld Expo news from 2005. It's possible it's the first liveblog I did, and I think I did it over a tethered 2G connection. It's from Archive.org, which saved old PC World content even though PC World did not.

How lucky I was to see Steve Jobs present in person. How sad it doesn't happen any more.

Show threadHarry McCrackenSep 8, 2023
Before there was FaceTime, there was iChat video chat. It wasn't always a given that Apple's photo manager could support video. And once upon a time, Steve Jobs had to talk up a Sony camcorder onstage, because you couldn't capture video with a handheld Apple device.
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It took me three posts to give up on timestamping my own updates, which I had to do back then.

John Mayer is one of numerous well-known musicians I've seen perform live--but only at Apple events.

Sep 8, 2023 at 10:30pmIvory for iOS
Show threadHarry McCrackenSep 8, 2023

Looking back, I instinctively chopped up my liveblog into snippets that would have fit into a tweet.

Here I am noting the launch of the first Mac Mini, which has continued on, quietly, as part of Apple's lineup until today.

Show threadHarry McCrackenSep 8, 2023
I didn't remember that Jobs actually preannounced Motorola's awful iTunes-compatible phone at Macworld. But the iPod Shuffle part of the event remained vivid. Gotta remember how long ago this was to understand how amazing a super-thin MP3 player with lots of capacity was at the time. It might belong in a list of Apple's 10 neatest products, judged by what else was available when they were announced.
Show threadHarry McCrackenSep 8, 2023
This was also a nifty bit of showmanship.
Show threadDave KleinSep 9, 2023
@harrymccracken I adored the original Shuffle. Wore it around my neck every day. Probably didn’t look cool considering I was in college.