WWDC 2003: Change of Date And Location

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WWDC 2003: Change of Date And Location

Posted by Hemos on Friday March 21, 2003 @02:23AM from the change-time-and-date dept.

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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Old Panther Link by Oculus+Habent · 2003-03-21 02:57 · Score: 4, Informative

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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1. Re:Old Panther Link by Drakonian · 2003-03-21 11:58 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  I think they linked to the wrong one. Here is today's eWeek story that says the explicit reason they are pushing back WWDC is to announce Panther.
  
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Re:10.3 survey: by derch · 2003-03-21 03:05 · Score: 4, Informative

The 10.1 upgrade was free from Apple stores and resellers or $20 for shipping and handling. Here.

Macslash's article on the 10.2 pricing outrage had anecdotal posts saying that Apple typically charges for every other upgrade.
Re:10.3 survey: by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-21 03:26 · Score: 5, Informative
In favour of free:
In recent history apple has done one payed upgrade... one free...
- 8.0 payed, 8.1 free
- 8.5 payed, 8.6 free
- 9.0 payed, 9.1 - 9.2 free
- 10.0 payed, 10.1 free
- 10.2 payed, 10.3???????????
In favour of payed:
Theres supposed to be some really funky new things in 10.3 - including a fully integrated X11 server, yay, double clickable X11 apps at last :D

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Re:They just made WWDC more expensive... by kwerle · 2003-03-21 04:33 · Score: 2, Informative

Here is the reality: flying into San Jose is a HELL of a lot cheaper than flying into SFO. Dunno about the hotel room, but think of the 100-200$ your saving as you're riding the train from San Jose to San Fran...

(I commute out of SFO every other week, and it pisses me off every time)
Re:They just made WWDC more expensive... by dhovis · 2003-03-21 06:35 · Score: 4, Informative

Sometimes you can get the airlines to let you change those "non-refundable" fares if you give them enough evidence that your reason for changing was beyond your control.

I've heard the thing to do is to go to the airport, so you can talk to an actual human being face to face. Explain that you booked a flight to go to this conference, the conference got pushed back a month, and you'd like to reschedule your flight so that you can attend the rescheduled conference. Have printed documentation of what happened. If you can convince them that this was something you couldn't forsee, they willl often give you a break. Don't try this over a phone call, though. It won't work.

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Re:They just made WWDC more expensive... by oscarmv · 2003-03-21 06:59 · Score: 2, Informative

If you're coming from abroad, there is no real option to fly to San Jose cheaply. Not like I didn't lose my non-refundable ticket anyway...
Re:Here's Hoping... by bill_mcgonigle · 2003-03-21 10:28 · Score: 4, Informative

Apple have never introduced new hardware at WWDC

Check your facts before you post next time.

I can't think of anything more important to Apple developers than a competitive hardware platform.

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Cool... no wait... that's the day after MacHack! by seedman · 2003-03-21 13:28 · Score: 2, Informative

@#$%^&*! Wish I could afford to be out of the office for two weeks at a time, but I just can't do it. Although I love MacHack, I don't really have a choice on this one.
Maybe I'll get lucky and MacHack will move to later in the year next year.

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Re:Here's Hoping... by jbolden · 2003-03-21 17:26 · Score: 2, Informative

I agree with you that the 970 release. Apple can show a beta one month or the next pretty easily. Heck Microsoft has demod code over a year before release.