Apple posts iPhone SDK Roadmap event on iTunes

I think the reason why they don't just put it all in one podcast, is that although people can subscribe to a podcast, not all are all that interested in listening or watching them. How many here are subscribed to a bunch of podcasts, that you've fallen woefully behind in, and probably don't intend to catch up. That's maybe 50mb wasted each podcast episode?

So imagine each of these 900 - 1300mb keynote videos being downloaded onto users machines.

Users get upset because they're not being told when massively large files are being downloaded. It's their fault in my opinion, if you subscribe to a podcast, that's exactly what you get.

Secondly the bean counters would cry when they calculate subscription numbers, multipled by video size, multiply by cost per mb.

Having on demand one-shot podcasts for each event solve both of the above issues. People who really care would subscribe to the one-shot podcast.

They've also started posting their SDK/xcode tutorial videos to iTunes U for free. I thought that was pretty sweet. I downloaded the 11 videos, so now I can watch them on my iPhone on the go.

In fairness, I started watching the HD streaming feed yesterday in Belgium and was thoroughly impressed with the image quality and the speed at which it streamed at. Definitely a good experience for this broadcast and gives me cause to hope that the Movies Rentals service for the Apple TV, as and when it launches, will be very good in terms of performance.

Because people subscribed to the podcast would set it to automatically download the new videos and fubar the server when alot of the subscribers would not be interested in every single video

yeah, i've thought that as well. maybe someone should create the podcast themselves and only link to Apple's videos... is that possible?

I hate how they don't tell you the resolution. Like is this for the ipod or 720p for the apple tv or what?

I agree that the method of distribution is a little odd, but that's about as much as I've thought about it. Really, what I'm most concerned about is simply being able to watch it. It's a lot more convenient to do this on the Apple TV.

I think the point is probably to drive people to the iTunes Store home-page, rather than get the new goodies automatically.

I noticed it can also stream to your iPhone if you simply go to the page on Apple's site and chose "watch" and it'll load the event via Quicktime in Safari.

I was really quite impressed when I found this out.

Just in time. I tried streaming it last night but it kept timing out.