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WWDC 2003: Change of Date And Location
no_demons writes "Looks like this years Apple World Wide Developers Conference has had a change of date and location. The event will now take place from June 23rd to June 27th in San Francisco. Apple will also unveil details of Panther at the event."
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This change seems to raise the profile of WWDC, probably at the expense of the New York/Boston summer Macworld Expo, which Apple had previously declared it would not attend.
Maybe Apple is trying to increase the visibility of its outreach to the geek community. I certainly hope this doesn't mean that WWDC is becoming just another trade show.
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
There's no way that Mac developers will overflow Moscone. Heck, the last MacWorld indicated that not even all of the Mac users can accomplish that.
Still, it will be nice to hang out in downtown San Fran. I hope they give the open source award to the Fink project.
The Panther link is a story about 10.2 from August 2002. No details whatsoever. I suppose I'l actually have to go and look for details now. :)
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I wonder how many people besides me are cursing right now because they have non-refundable airfares for the week of May 18th.
We'll probably get nailed for changing the hotel, too.
This sucks.
...in the past, whenever I've gone to WWDC I've been tortured by the catchy, bouncy, wistful David/Bacharach tune "Do You Know the Way to San Jose." It starts running through my head about the time I sign up and doesn't stop until I get home again.
I'd MUCH rather hear Scott McKenzie crooning about gentle people with flowers in their hair.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
The date for WWDC has never changed, ever. Why the hell would you not bank on that? Yeah, it sucks, but we'll deal.
This is purely speculation based on a few rumor sites (e.g. macrumors.com, macwhispers.com), but I'm hoping this delay might reflect the introduction of Panther as the first 64 bit MacOS, along with the introduction of 64 bit hardware (Power 970 based) for developer use. I can dream, can't I? :D The time frame seems plausible if you assume the rumor sites have accurate information.
this seems strange, they just released the details for the SanJose event a few weeks ago. they must have just thought of this very recently. they could have easily held off on releasing details and dealt with people complaining about the lack of info and then releasing the SF details.
It makes the whole thing seem very ill planned. did they think Panther was ready a month ago and then changed their minds?
Is moving the WWDC back a sign of Panther slipping or is it a sign of progress being better than expected?
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
So, are does anyone have an e-ticket for sale cheap now?
This is great.
;)
Back in 1998 I got a Student WWDC pass but, because the WWDC was the week of finals I had no hope of getting there.
If this change continues in later years I think it might be a big boost to more student participation at the WWDC (who will mostly be off in June i think, or at least not have finals around that time), which will probably be good long term for Apple's Developer Community.
I can't wait for Panther! (10.3)
Quick someone post som Panther rumors!!
Maybe a Pink Panther reference
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...this means we'll see the introduction of the PowerPC 970-based PowerMacs at WWDC now.
That's about the only thing that could make up for pissing off everybody who's already made arrangements for May and Apple doesn't usually try to actively piss of its developers.
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It seems to me that simply giving developers a "better preview" version of 10.3 is not a big enough reason to delay the WWDC. I know in the past they have had no problem handing us unusable prealpha's of OS X and called them Developer Previews.
That would seem to support some kind of announcement that needed to be synchronized with another companies schedule. Moving WWDC has to be quite costly for Apple as well...
For my Panther prediction I look to the biggest hole in OS X, the Carbonized and PowerPlant based Finder. Since there has been little improvement in it I'll assume a rewritten Cocoa based (and hopefully great) Finder is in the works.
my 2 cents...
1. The OS will make a purring sound as you navigate the finder.
2. It will ask you what a 64-bit number is before letting you run 64-bit applications.
3. Panther will spout off crazy Apple rumors that turn out to be true.
4. If two Macs, one running Jaguar, and one with Panther, sit side by side, growling may be heard
5. Internet explorer will no longer be pre-installed on the machine, replaced by and Safari.
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WOOHOO!
This is really exciting! It's got to be a really big deal for them to change the date and move the show to the Moscone Center, so there'll probably be a keynote and product announcements! We know what "the future of the Mac platform" is referring to... So this can only mean one thing!
We'll get 1.6 GHz G4 Towers in july!
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Maybe I'll get lucky and MacHack will move to later in the year next year.
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What could you possibly get out of a 64 bit OS?
Apple generally solders ram on to the lower-end macs, and the higher-end ones can't go beyond 1.5gigs (last I checked), so you're wasting what memory you do have for larger pointers.