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WWDC 2003: Change of Date And Location

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. 10.3 survey: by Bizzarobot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Free or paid upgrade?

    1. Re:10.3 survey: by Draoi · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Paid upgrade, I'm guessing. All the other minor numbers 10.1, 10.2 were ... There are supposed to be a *lot* of changes going into Panther, so it should be well worth it.

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  2. Moscone versus San Jose Convention Center by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

  3. new apple hardware? by elohim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  4. Opinions... by Mister+Black · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is moving the WWDC back a sign of Panther slipping or is it a sign of progress being better than expected?

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  5. Change good for Students by codeonezero · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  6. Here's Hoping... by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...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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  7. WWDC moved for Preview? Not... by stwf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...