@kenosha7777 - are you for real? I've seen some Apple apologists in my time, but I think you take the biscuit.
Rather than accept that Apple's behavior is becoming increasingly distasteful, as evidenced by their handling of the iPhone4's antenna issue and now this "you can only watch the live webcast if you buy one of our devices", you try to defend them with some fabricated excuse?
Live webcasts are not a difficult thing to implement these days. There's no need to run a "shake down cruise" of your bi-annual press conference & product tour because there are any number of companies who'd be only too delighted to stream the content of your event world-wide to ANY computer able to talk TCP and able to render video encoded in any one of a number of standard formats.
Sorry, but I much prefer Apple when it was the David to the industry's Goliaths rather than assuming it was the second coming.
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