The Apple Live Stream: What Does This Mean?

Perhaps you've heard: Apple is having an event tomorrow . Normally, this means that a sea of tech bloggers descends upon the Bay Area to cover it live for those sitting by their computers at home. But this time things are a bit different: Apple is actually streaming the event live -- something they haven't done in a very, very long time. Cue Double Rainbow : what does this mean? It's been so long since an Apple event has been live streamed that no one can seem to agree when the last one actually was. The consensus seems to be that it was a Macworld keynote (which IDG and not Apple produced) back in the 2003 or 2004 timeframe. But what's interesting is why Apple streamed one of these last ones: as some recall, it was at least in part to show off their then-new streaming technology -- QuickTime Streaming Server . Might that be a hint about the intentions for tomorrow's event?