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Apple's WWDC Begins Monday
KeelSpawn writes in that Yahoo! has a story about the upcoming WWDC in San Jose, May 6-10. Apple will offer attendees the chance to "be the first to explore the powerful new capabilities of the next major release of Mac OS X," with over 100 technical sessions, including those on Darwin, changes in Carbon and Cocoa, and more than 25 sessions on Java and WebObjects. The WWDC Steve Jobs keynote begins May 6 at 1 p.m. Eastern, while the Mac OS X keynote begins at 5 p.m. Eastern.
Obviously the OS X keynote will focus more specifically on Jaguar, but presumably most of Steve's presentation will be about Jaguar with a little of his trademark recapping. Anybody think that Steve's presentation won't really show anything about Jaguar and it'll be left to the official OS X keynote?
I hear they usually play the keynotes at Apple Stores. I'm not familiar with New York, but there are three Apple Stores in that state: in Buffalo, Albany, and West Nyack.
Maybe these aren't near NYC, but just thought I'd mention them.
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
This isn't a MacWorld, or even a Seybold. This conference is very specifically targeted to developers. While I'm sure Steve's keynote will be pretty light on the technical side, it's still going to be intended for the programmers. Macs, especially in the Apple Stores, are supposed to be user friendly, easy to use, and NOT look or feel like one needs a CS degree to use it. I'm not sure that Apple wants the ordinary end-user types to see so much of the behind-the-scenes technobabble that goes into making their computers work, for fear of making them think that Macs are as complicated as Win-x86.
So, I'm not sure that the Apple Stores will carry the feed. WWDC isn't listed on the schedule found at the retail theater page.
However, the best bet by far is to contact the store and ask. Here are some links, complete with maps and phone numbers:
Crossgates
Palisades
Walden Galleria
-Ster
Good point. I guess if there's any keynote that wouldn't be shown at an Apple Store, it would be the developer one. I feel like Mac fans would go to an Apple Store to see it if it were being shown... but that doesn't mean it _will_ be.
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
Issue: still only J2SDK 1.3 on OS X. Sun seems to like to support people that hate Java (MS) more than people who love it.
Note: the version of Swing for OS X is Aqua-fied, but still cross-platform, so you write your Swing components and they look OS X native on OS X and like any other Java Swing component anywhere else (try it with Jext to see what I'm talking about). This is because of Apple's great support of the Java platform. It's almost, but not quite, a native language. And did I mention fast?
Links: Java @ Apple with loads of other links. I find what I need 9 times out of 10. The tenth time, I go to the source.
Do not touch -Willie
That's what they said about Windows under OS/2. And where's OS/2 now that it can't run Windows 32-bit programs? Reality is that Apple has 5% of the market. That's an attractive target for niche developers, developers that emphasize cross-platform capability, and those that want to maintain the appearance of competition, and can lose money doing so (cough, Microsoft, cough). It's not an attractive target for all the others.
I streamed the Mac World Tokyo 2002 keynote via a 56k dialup connection without any problems. Sure, the window was little bigger then a postage stamp, however the audio was perfectly understandable.
It's not a perfect solution, but if you've got no other way to watch, you've got nothing to lose in giving it a try. You may be somewhat surprised at how decent it is...