Why Apple's Live Stream Was So Bad During The iPhone 6

By James Cook

Apple's live stream of its iPhone event on Tuesday was hit with a series of errors that left many viewers unable to watch the unveiling of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch.

The first 30 minutes of the stream were the worst affected, with most users seeing a test card instead of Tim Cook introducing the new devices.

Apple's live stream of its iPhone event on Tuesday was hit with a series of errors that left many viewers unable to watch the unveiling of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch.

The first 30 minutes of the stream were the worst affected, with most users seeing a test card instead of Tim Cook introducing the new devices.

But the errors didn't stop there. When the stream did work, the Mandarin translation was accidentally included over the top of the English audio, and the stream was often incredibly pixelated.

So why was Apple's stream so bad? Cult of Mac is reporting that the stream failed because of the official live blog that Apple included on the same page as the streaming video.

Rayburn says that hosting the liveblog on the same page as the streaming video caused issues with the video performance because of the page making repeated attempts to fetch new content. And as for the pixelated stream, Rayburn says that's down to the JavaScript elements also. However, users watching the stream using Apple TV, which didn't include the liveblog, also experienced issues, casting some doubt on the idea that Apple's liveblog was to blame for the frequent outages.