The user experience of watching WWDC session videos on the iPad has always been a thorn in my side.<p>Back when the 2011 videos were new, I downloaded them all to my computer (in Standard Definition) and synced them all to my iPad so that I would have immediate offline access to them all should I find myself with a free hour to spend.<p>Sadly, the Videos application has one horrible UX problem: the names of each session video was very long, but the label in Videos is too short, and so they all endup being truncated, like "Session 205 - Introducing Collection Vi...". Even in landscape, mind you! Half of the screen was wasted with a graphic that added no useful information.<p>Halfway through the year, things got a lot better when the "iTunes U" app was released, and browsing the 2011 videos immediately became much better. The Videos app still has the same usability issue (and I think they should still fix it), but the iTunes U app is better so at least I can avoid the bad app.<p>Well, last night I downloaded the 2012 session videos and synced them over to my iPad, and now iTunes U has a horrible UX, because the videos from 2011 and 2012 are all mixed in the same list, and there's no way to tell from the session title which year it came from.<p>It's as if no one at Apple dogfoods their own applications with their own content.<p><i>Edit: just to be clear, none of my complaint here is about iTunes or the iTunes store. Those applications (though I admit the former is a bloated dumping-ground of features) have always behaved perfectly for me. Rather, I'm specifically refering to the "iTunes U" mobile app (see link below) and the "Videos" app that is bundled on the iPad.</i><p><a href="http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/</a>
Any recommendations for what sessions to watch first? What are the most substantial new features, one should pay close attention to with respect to iOS?
Now I know why they've been this fast: The other years you always got to see the presenter, this year you just see the slides and get the audio. So they simply had to join the audio source with the slides. Works fine though and having them earlier is certainly nice.
Try this link to see all the developer videos available in iTunes (you have to be logged in to apple dev first) in order to have a choice of HD or SD for big or small video sizes:<p><a href="https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/adc.apple.com" rel="nofollow">https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately...</a>
Wow they're quick.
Does anybody else have issues downloading them via iTunes?
I'm on Windows here at work and as soon as the download finishes it is deleted, nowhere to be found on disk or iTunes. The machine is even activated in the iTunes store. Guess I'll have to keep streaming until I can download them tonight on my Mac...
Does anyone else have problems with the sound? I've had two videos stop the sound at some point while the slides still continue. Reloading doesn't seem to help, it still stops at the same point.<p>edit: Nevermind, I think it was my SSD running out of space. Still waiting for that damn retina macbook ;).
So to view these videos, I need to be running Safari for the streaming version, or have iTunes installed to download the videos?<p>Can someone explain what's the benefit of doing it that way? I'm on Windows (Ubuntu also, in a VM) running Chrome. Sure, I could install Safari or iTunes, but why do I have to? (And don't say "So you can watch the videos.")