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- Slashriffs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2410 million views or 100,000 people hitting refresh 100 times during the keynote.
- whiskeymb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I'd say people hitting th f5 key to refresh the Keynote blog (like I did) probably amounts to a lot of it. I'd rather see the number of uniques on that day.
- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18He just wanted to see his name on Digg again.
- Ilovebabyjesus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Jason Calacanis is paying those that visit Engadget. That explains everything!
- alberto24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15not sure why this was dugg frankly - the 10 million number could easily come from their same userload and some new geeks refreshing the page 100-200x.
- briangig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@Gullop, I thought the same, but Tuesday night I found myself showing my entire family the iPhone keynote, and they were amazed. My father was asking me how to send it to my grandfather to show him...I think to most people this is their first view at such high tech devices, and what is possible when someone (Apple) does all the tech stuff for you, and just gives you a device that does everything easily, and works.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11*****. JC sucks monkey balls
- positron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8We can only hope so.
- thejart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7...but to be fair, about 100 of those were mine.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6 their coverage was excellent too. they had pics and corrected/ellaborated on their previous live posts as well, which was awesome. definitely the best live keynote coverage i've ever seen.
- lupinglade, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10CES sure was a little thing, cause I didn't hear a single announcement out of it...
- JimmyDushku, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Employees of MS were visiting and taking notes.
- s17031979, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i highly doubt 10million page views means 10million people were interested in the iPhone. When the iPhone was announced i must have checked atleast 10 different sites 10 times that day.
- ryanblock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually no, only 23% of the day's traffic came from the two hours Jobs was on stage! A more detailed explanation here: http://www.ryanablock.com/archive/2007/01/just-how-well-did-engadget-do-last-tuesday/
- windohs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Enough with the iphone *****! even as a pro-apple consumer (not fanboy) i can agree that this iphone (if it still is named that) news story is being beaten like a dead dog.
- kirk06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Steve showed the button on the bottom of the screen that you can tap to bring up the numeric dialing pad if you "want to dial the old-fashioned way"
- bdbr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"the 10 million number could easily come from their same userload and some new geeks refreshing the page 100-200x"
That was what I expected when I read it. I refreshed a bunch of times waiting for Jobs to stop talking about his gimmicky phone (or reading comments like "the crowd goes wild"...Jobs could say just about anything and that crowd would go wild) so I could hear about something interesting. Unfortunately, the only other news was a name change...whoopee!
No Digg. - Kommy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm sick of hearing about this iPhone.
- MrSpontaneous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly. I had refreshthing reload the page every minute.. for the entire keynote. I bet others were doing the same.
- Gullop, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13Heh, you have to understand, it's only big to Internet nerds, most people don't give a flying ***** about a new phone that isn't released yet.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heh, that's exactly how many Jobs said Apple want to sell! (1%)
- meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bandwidth bills and fancy video editing (picture in picture etc) takes time
- etx313, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yeah, Lame. Marked as inaccurate.
- patrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ooops! I stand corrected. You're right.
- ear1grey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Bingo, and all those poor sods had to scroll down on every refresh too.
- clubmasta2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5What's with all the iHype? I'm smelling another Sony
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For everyone saying "who cares, people were just hitting refresh" it doesn't matter. Refreshing the page = additional advertisement impressions = revenue. For a website operator, it's an amazing feat for a single day.
- MannaPC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like the Joey guy who commented had the right idea =D
- clubmasta2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Advertisers when you get that big care about the little stuff like that. Did you ever hear about the crap Google went through about click fraud stuff? If it means even 1 more advertisement they'll find anything in any data they can get to squeze it out of you. Yes, it's amazing but it's apple, I don't think they need giant advertisers that bad. If there was a site about stuff like E3 with second to second keynote crap you'd see the same response. :/
- pcrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know I added 100 or so hits to the site myself....
- esengulov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maaan, these comments made my day, love them
- Dweller99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You must have missed the 23 *PAGES* of articles at Engadget about this years CES then.
Have you read any tech articles that did not have Mac, Apple or the i prefix in the title during the last week? - coolant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still don't understand why Apple doesn't stream the keynote to the Internet. Does anybody know why not?
- rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://daveola.com/Pages/Stuff/Consumer_Whore.jpg
- jtjdt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*Bandwidth bills = Yes
*fancy video editing (picture in picture etc) takes time = No
I saw it live (it's broadcast to all Apple Employees live), and it looks exactly the same live as it does when they made it available to the public - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go read the original "article" from Jason Calcanis http://www.calacanis.com/2007/01/11/engadget-crushes-gizmodo-but-you-knew-that-already/ that this is referencing.
It's amazing how childish it comes off. "Engadget crushes Gizmodo." "Engadget is still the best gadget blog in the world--by far."
Since when was this about "crushing" people or chanting "we're number one" like some sports fan with a big foam finger? - ejb21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Techcrunch is giving a lot of publicity to a direct competitor.
- masskurec, on 03/01/2009, -0/+0iphone miphone giphone
all this is crap
http://xptweak.net - Dweller99, on 10/12/2007, -12/+11"iPhone Day" also happened to be right in the middle of this little thing called CES. the content on Engadget was much much larger than the typical days postings due to all the new products being covered. iPhone happened to be one of many.
- roxics, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I hate to admit it but your right Gullop, so I got to dig you up.
I think the iphone is a great idea, but I don't think the majority of the public will really start caring until the third or fourth generation. Just like the ipod went. When it has more memory, a better defined interface and a lower price the public will be all over it.
I'm also really hoping other cell phone companies start copying the idea as well. That would also help this type of interface become a norm. - patrix, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6I guess only 10 million people in the world care about the iPhone :)
- jcnickel, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Well duh, iPhone is freakin' sweet...
- SNIa, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2When making a call with the iPhone you have the onscreen keyboard. What if you're calling a phone# that has a numeric menu system? Where does that keypad go? I don't want to conference a call like that or put it on hold, I'd need the keypad.
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1That's it? Something this big should have drawn more interest.
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