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WWDC 2016 Decorations Going Up at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Ahead of Monday's Keynote Event

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Apple today began decorating the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, which is where the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote will be held on Monday. Crews have started putting up window decorations, and rainbow-colored flags, and as the weekend progresses, we should see additional banners and signage.

This year's Worldwide Developers Conference website, app, and media invites have all featured a simple but colorful dark theme, and it's likely signs and banners will adopt the same aesthetic.

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Decorations have not yet started going up at the Moscone Center, where the rest of the conference will take place. Apple typically starts decorating Moscone West on Tuesday or Wednesday during the week ahead of WWDC, but an event that took place at the venue through Thursday may delay decorations until later today.

A photo posted by thaiboe1 (@thaiboe1) on Jun 10, 2016 at 12:04pm PDT​

This year's keynote event will feature the debut of iOS 10 and OS X 10.12, along with new versions of watchOS and tvOS. We may hear more details on Apple's App Store changes, and we could see updates to some services, like Apple Pay. For full details on what to expect, make sure to check out our WWDC roundup.

Apple will provide a live stream of the WWDC keynote on the Apple TV and on iOS and Mac devices through its website. MacRumors will also provide live coverage of the event for those unable to watch, both on MacRumors.com and through our MacRumors Live Twitter account.

They are mounting the big #apple logos at Moscone right now #wwdc pic.twitter.com/hjn9AWuLH6 - Andreas Muth (@amx01b) June 10, 2016
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Update: Apple has also begun decorating Moscone West, and the first parts of the Apple logo have gone up on the window.


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i thought i was missing something. but then i saw the logo, and some flags, colorful ones and black and white ones.
Maybe by Monday it will be something nicer to look at.
 
I don't know if the flags are the same colour every year but this year they are dark in colour. Another hint for a Dark Mode in iOS 10?
 
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silverboy31 said:
Anyone live in the area that can get some pics inside the windows, I would but I'm 2257 miles or 3632 km away ....
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I bet that's already underway:

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Apple’s biggest boosters get early tips to expect and publicize the invitations; for instance, on the exact day Apple announced its latest event, Canadian blogger Dalrymple just happened to be in Cupertino, snapping photographs of a structure Apple was building for the event at the Flint Center. It’s difficult to just call that a coincidence.

During the weekend prior to an event, members of the Apple PR staff walk the halls of the keynote venue to ensure that every component of the presentation from the stage to the hands-on area is aligned as planned. Simultaneously, Apple executives engage in “dress rehearsals” on the keynote stage, practicing their usually-not-actually-off-the-cuff jokes.
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Source: 9to5Mac

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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JamieLannister said:
Dark Mode to see all the light bleeding that's for sure!
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Hey, don't poop on the party! :p

Even with a little light bleed, my dark wallpapers look wicked on my current iPhones. If they come out with OLED displays next year a dark mode is going to look sweet and be so much less disruptive in public.
 
DaveWotzit said:
Is it possible that in future the WWDC will be held at the new Apple campus? Or, is it simply too big an event for be contained there?
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Can't see that happening. I think all other calendar events will though as the new theatre is bigger than the one at Infinite Loop, but not big enough for WWDC.
 
I think one of the new features will be a rewritten iOS (Maybe OS X too, who knows) in Swift. And of curse, will be 64-bit only.
 
tfuentes3 said:
I think one of the new features will be a rewritten iOS (Maybe OS X too, who knows) in Swift. And of curse, will be 64-bit only.
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It won't happen in years. Too much work, Swift isn't ready enough for such job and there's no much need to rewrite what's already working.
 
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haydn! said:
Can't see that happening. I think all other calendar events will though as the new theatre is bigger than the one at Infinite Loop, but not big enough for WWDC.
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I'm inclined to agree. Plus with WWDC you have so many outsiders visiting, even students, that it's just asking for disruption. I could picture many devs saying "I may never be here again. I'm going to look for the labs" and getting stuck somewhere with handcuffs because they "accidentally" drank the fizzy lifting drink.
 
jonnysods said:
Let's go new retina MacBook pros, new cinema displays and Apple watch 2!!
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None of which you're going to see at WWDC. The event is typically software focused and there's already been rumours that none of the new hardware is ready to go yet. Don't hold your breath, but it's not impossible.
 
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