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Apple Announces WWDC 2017, To Be Held in San Jose On June 5-9 (daringfireball.net)
Apple said today it will kick off this year's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5. Much like every year, the developer conference is the place where we can expect to see what's coming to iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS later this year. This year, the event is being held in a different venue: the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, the original home of WWDC. John Gruber, writing for DaringFireball: First, announcing early really helps people who have to travel long distances to attend, particularly those from outside the U.S. The San Jose Convention Center is the original home of WWDC -- that's where it was held from 1988 through 2002. (WWDC 2002 was the year Steve Jobs held a funeral for Mac OS 9 during the keynote.) San Jose is way closer to Apple headquarters. San Francisco is about an hour drive from 1 Infinite Loop. The San Jose Convention Center is only five minutes away from Apple's new campus. Schiller emphasized to me that this is a big deal: more Apple employees from more teams will be present, simply because they won't have to devote an entire day to being there. (This could be a particular boon to WWDC's developer labs, where attendees can get precious face time with Apple's engineers.)
To San Jose?
I can just use FaceTime.
Things gonna feel snappier(tm)
Hotel rooms in SF have gotten so expensive, it prevents a lot of people from attending these conferences.
I got this email too.
I wonder if their marketing team takes bets on how many worthless blog posts will be created whenever they send their spam.
I have been to WWDC twice at Moscone, but have no familiarity with the San Jose Convention Center. Will San Jose offer a larger room for the keynote? It seemed to me that WWDC had outgrown Moscone. Any news on whether or not the number of attendee slots will be increased?
its a budgetary thing..
On the inside, Apple is struggling with profit diversity/.
its a 2 trick pony, with one leg that is diseased and ready 2 fall off(mac) and the current leg left (i-fone) is ridden with disease and mismanagement, being held together with tape n bubble-gum.Buncha kids
.. so steve can pee on us from beyond the grave.
According to the rumors on the comic con circuit, San Francisco is getting too expensive to host smaller conventions. Pricing at Moscone is tied to how many hotel rooms that the city can collect taxes on. If your convention can't fill up the hotel rooms, expect to pay than it would cost somewhere else like San Jose or Santa Clara.
>> more Apple employees from more teams will be present, simply because they won't have to devote an entire day to being there
You'll have MORE employees, buzzing through so they can tell their managers they were there, but probably LESS engagement, because, you know, they gotta get back to the office and fill out those TPS reports so they can leave at a decent hour.
"The San Jose Convention Center is only five minutes away from Apple's new campus" Maybe by rocket-powered drone? At 2am on a clear freeway, you might be able to make it in 15 minutes. Otherwise, plan on a half hour.
apple announces wwdc2017, but yet looking at the articles I notice the article about facebook it over shadows.. 16 to 13 comments, and the gap gets bigger.. Ya, the Shine from the apple name is getting tarnished quik.. Like their server platform, it looks nice, but does it function? Does it bring the same features at a similar pricepoint to its brethren? NO Could it have? Yes if Apple was not involved. I think the "X-serve" platform lasted 6 months..
coming to iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS later this year.
So many OSes. One would suspect there is an effort to unify all the fragments into one.
Which will kill MacOS. "Welcome to your walled garden, citizens. We will look after you with great care."
did they really mean that?
Are people actually going to risk being detained at the airport for hours or being put in jail just to attend an Apple Conference. This is not snark. I am really interested if these kind of things held in the US are still viable. I expect to see more North American international conferences held in Canada. I know that most people attending the conference will be light skinned, but still...
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Hmm, it seems the lack of any "5" mod points seems to indicate a bias somewhere in the mix, unless the moderators are not doing their jobs. /. being honest and upfront with the coverage?
I also notice that there seems to have been a removal of some comments within the rebuttal section of this story..
with that said, regardless of the content, is
I aint no pro, nor trying to point fingers, but comeon people try to not be so obvious..
to the amount of memory supported on laptops, so what are they announcing? Seven years of no innovation? They haven't added to the allowed amount of memory in nearly seven years since the mid-2010 model that was released in April 2010. They just gave-up on product development and hope that people have enough old equipment die that they can keep sales up. The problem with that is that since the products now are no better than they were almost seven years ago, many people aren't upgrading.
I honestly swear that if that Tim Cock brings the fucking "migrants" in name of diversity, that it will be the last Apple I will buy.
...be sure to see the infamous "Pile of Statues" AKA "Dookie in the Park": http://www.urbandictionary.com...
I would try to recommend a bar or club but the city council tends to shut them all down, or their landlords jack the rent and price them out. On the other hand, drive 15 minutes over to Campbell, CA and go to "The Garret" for the best damn pizza on Earth: http://thegarretrestaurant.com...
Oh, and Winchester Mystery House is in San Jose in case you weren't aware: http://www.winchestermysteryho...
-==- Buy a Mac and leave me alone!
The best part about it was meeting other developers and partying with them afterwards.
Everything else was kinda meh. The keynote was sorta awkward and filled with self-congratulatory cruft. Without Steve Jobs, there was no magic to the presentation and it was all kinda lame. I got to see some new hardware before it was released, but the demonstrations were so tightly controlled that they might as well have been showing us a device playing back some pre-recorded movie, and most of the questions that were asked during the following Q&A session couldn't be answered or were sidestepped with marketing bullshit.
The so-called developer labs were hit and miss. Some guys seemed to genuinely care and were willing to discuss the technical side of the implementations behind a particular API, others took a sort of "we know best, trust us, our code is perfect, there's no other way this could possibly be done" stance and refused to discuss any of the inner workings of their particular area of responsibility. In the end, apart from a few notable interactions, I didn't really gleam much from them that I couldn't get from the API docs and 30 minutes on Google.
To be honest, I found it to be a bit of a waste of time and money. The best part of the whole trip was meeting other independent developers and partying with them afterwards. I later hooked up with a few and did some projects with them which was nice, and in retrospect, I suppose the opportunity to meet them was worth the price of admission. However, it's not like that sort of thing needs to be restricted to WWDC. I kinda feel like someone else should be putting on a less hyped up developer convention with a stronger focus on developers helping other developers. The core of WWDC felt like it existed solely to praise Apple and to ooh and aww at whatever they brought to show off, even though almost everything I saw was a huge letdown. I haven't gone back because of this- it was just too... dare I say religious?... for me. I've stayed in touch with most of the people I met there and they all agreed WWDC has been going downhill, and most of them didn't even bother signing up for a chance to get tickets last year, nor have they this year.
So I suppose if you're a hardcore Apple fanatic and developer, this is basically your yearly mecca. If you want to get fucking wasted and party with other developers, you can do that too, but it's not like WWDC is required to do that. Otherwise, it's all rather hyped up and I don't think it's worth the time and effort to attend. I'm told things were very, very different when Jobs was around (it was still hyped up to hell, but with good reason), but that's no longer the case. I really regret not having gone when he was alive- I always said I'd go to WWDC one year, and the year I did TC was already well in power, and it was kinda disappointing.
Apple is now an anti-tech company. I miss the days when they weren't so hostile to engineers. All of my friends that worked there have quit in disgust.
of 5 things Apple claims are obsolete but everybody still uses. Also, they will show the dongles to get those features back.
Moscone Center is closed for renovates and that will take 2-years!
Seriously, noting here in this story.
Ha ha
Hey Tim, upon reflection, I do owe you some thanks for correcting some of the facts I placed out there.. OK X-serves did remain in production for over a year, but I think the other person did bring up a good counter point "To whom were they sold to?" To be upfront the original argument was around the conjectured reasoning behind Apples move from SF to SJ, so lets stick with that ok.. Enjoy California.