Apple Announces WWDC 2017 Takes Place June 5-9 in San Jose

[AngerDanger]

Looking at the banner..I see many peeps waiting around the Apple logo. Hence a new store is opening

Apple at the center of people... echo device coming soon?

The figures are all going about their lives, biking, and socializing without any sort of obvious tech, so perhaps it's about wearables. A watchOS update with more continuity, maybe?

EDIT: there's actually quite a bit of technology shown.

 

[sracer]

Apple will revolutionize the new emoji.

Did you notice anything about those people. They're not moving. The solution: ANIMATED emoji!

Clearly from the illustration, Apple are launching a new satellite surveillance system.

iInTheSky anyone?

Close. The name will be: iSpy.

 

[citysnaps]

shockingly early announcement. but why?

Help's attendees plan early, snagging cheaper plane fares and potentially lower hotel rates.

 

[576316]

You are completely wrong on every account.

Business people need approvals from their company to spend the money to go. They need to book hotel rooms and flights. All this takes time.

A ticket to a concert is $100 for 4 hours. This event is 8 hours a day for 5 days. Equivalent to 10 'concerts' in length. Plus you get access to the smartest people in Apple that you wouldn't get access to in any other way. And these people can personally help you sell an app you created, making you thousands of dollars, where without their help in understanding what is wrong, you might languish for another month figuring it out yourself without help.

You don't have a clue as to what this event is, so you knee-jerk and that's why you think it's overpriced and a profit maker for Apple.

Well it's gone steadily up in price of the past few years. Cap it at $1000 at least.

 

[bbeagle]

If Apple truly believed in an event that moved the world forward, the WWDC conference would be 95% subsidized by Apple (i.e. almost free to attend) and all places would be merit based for the most promising developers to attend just like the best academic conferences are organized. Purely this is a cash making and hysteria inducing event for Apple. Each year they have become less technical and more like fairly floss, high in sugar.

Lol. Seriously?

So if Apple can only hold 5,000 people in a conference because they have 50 qualified talented speakers to 100 people in a room, should magically be able to hold a conference with 50,000 people with the same 50 speakers speaking to 1000 people in a room? It's very similar to colleges with professors. You can only allow so many people to come to your university. You can't just take everyone and do it for free. You only have so many buildings, so much room and so many people.
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Well it's gone steadily up in price of the past few years. Cap it at $1000 at least.

It's been about $1500 for the past 10 years.

And it's price is very similar to all the other conferences. Google I/O is only 3 days and costs $900. Same price per day. Microsoft Build costs $2,195.

Should doctors cap their costs at $100/surgery because that just seems right to you? I don't think you understand what this conference is.... you probably just think it's one 2-hour presentation. That's not what people come for. It's the 4 1/2 days after that.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

If Apple truly believed in an event that moved the world forward, the WWDC conference would be 95% subsidized by Apple (i.e. almost free to attend) and all places would be merit based for the most promising developers to attend just like the best academic conferences are organized. Purely this is a cash making and hysteria inducing event for Apple. Each year they have become less technical and more like fairly floss, high in sugar.

You say that but you don't know what it costs Apple to put on WWDC. My guess is that it is heavily subsidized. 5000 attendees x $1600 = $8M. When you consider the cost to lease the facility for a week, participation by all Apple engineers, and the lost week of work, the cost is likely many times over $8m.

Apple can send out this flowery verbiage all they want. It doesn't make them a non-profit. This conference is of great benefit to devs on every level of achievement. I don't see why Apple needs to make it 100% free -- and it does give 7% of the tickets to devs that otherwise could not afford them.

 

[yaxomoxay]

The figures are all going about their lives, biking, and socializing without any sort of obvious tech, so perhaps it's about wearables. A watchOS update with more continuity, maybe?

EDIT: there's actually quite a bit of technology shown.

I call it: macOS and iOS unification, watchOS/tvOS as new extensions of the new OS...

 

[Dave245]

I'm hoping we see more iPad Pro features in iOS 11. I also wonder if Apple have partly announced early because there won't be a March event and this is the first one they are announcing for this year.

 

[silverboy31]

Anyone remember this .......

 

[now i see it]

3 years ago I swore I would never watch one of these dreadful things again. 2 years ago I caved and watched it and swore I'd never watch it again. Last year out of boredom I took a peek and swore I'd never watch one of these things again. This year dammit I'm not going to watch it.

 

[profets]

Probably to clearly indicate that there's actually not "supposed" to be a March event?

Edit:
Haha, beat to the punch by @profets!

Lol, what timing!

I'm really curious about March. I guess we'll have a good idea in a matter of weeks at this point.

 

[AngerDanger]

I call it: macOS and iOS unification, watchOS/tvOS as new extensions of the new OS...

The Mac Pro to turn into subscription-based cloud computing. For just a couple grand a year, you can have access to eight CloudCores of power.

 

[yaxomoxay]

3 years ago I swore I would never watch one of these dreadful things again. 2 years ago I caved and watched it and swore I'd never watch it again. Last year out of boredom I took a peek and swore I'd never watch one of these things again. This year dammit I'm not going to watch it.

Good plan! Just keep your schedule clear on June, 5th.

 

[Rustus Maximus]

I call it: macOS and iOS unification, watchOS/tvOS as new extensions of the new OS...

Maybe not here, yaxo, but eventually that's what will happen. It's clear that Mac is an afterthought these days...

"The conference, kicking off June 5, will inspire developers from all walks of life to turn their passions into the next great innovations and apps that customers use every day across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Mac."

Oh, and Mac too...

I think they should revive the 'Get a Mac' ad campaign and have Dooneese play the part of the Mac this time...

 

[Kabeyun]

I'm ready to be disappointed!

I'm not! I fully expect everyone here to moan, whine, and snark about how they didn't get what they want, Cupertino doesn't innovate anymore, Phil Schiller is stupid, and Tim Cook should be fired so they can Make Apple Great Again, and I won't be disappointed.

 

[Zab Abbey]

The Mac Pro to turn into subscription-based cloud computing. For just a couple grand a year, you can have access to eight CloudCores of power.

I think you have hit on what should be at the core of Apple versus the world.

The whole idea of Jobs and the Mac was the power of the individual versus the herd i.e. Hans Solo versus Darth Vader, Apple-Wozniak/Jobs versus IBM.

Your proposal has Apple turning into the new Darth Vader: as a Mac with an built in expiry date is an anathema to an individual, but a boon to the herd making it.

That's why individual security IS important, rather than having it subsumed into the cloud, and giving complete power to the herd, like Google 's enforced sharing and monetization of your personal data use.

Apple management needs to remember Apple's roots in the design of its hardware. It needs to keep designing hardware which allows the individual to take on the herd.

 

[Dave245]

I'm not! I fully expect everyone here to moan, whine, and snark about how they didn't get what they want, Cupertino doesn't innovate anymore, Phil Schiller is stupid, and Tim Cook should be fired so they can Make Apple Great Again, and I won't be disappointed.

That's almost a certainty that people in here will do that. Personally I have no big expectations, iv been happy with features so far, it would be nice to see more iPad Pro software features in iOS 11, nothing too drastic, just things like being able to a

 

[Michael Goff]

I won't be disappointed regardless of what they do.

Hard to be disappointed when you don't expect much.

 

[Tycho24]

Lol, what timing!

I'm really curious about March. I guess we'll have a good idea in a matter of weeks at this point.

This is just "pie in the sky" dreaming, but I'm hoping that the clusters of people depicted on the invite are indicative of a new collaboration feature in macOS/iOS.
(fingers crossed for user accounts on iOS devices already!!!!)

 

[aaronhead14]

Please release the new Mac Pro.

 

[Michael Goff]

Please release the new Mac Pro.

Why do people keep doing this to themselves?

 

[Tycho24]

This is great. San Francisco has become far too expensive for trade-shows. When you're spending $300 a night for a hotel, $25 per meal and $50 to Taxi from SFO to SOMA, it's becoming impossible for indie developers to spend $1599 plus another $1500 just for accommodations.

San Jose is far more affordable.

There's a hostel like a block away from Moscone West/Bill Graham that's about $45/night.
Maybe these "indie developers" of yours could be less bourgeois?

 

[DaPizzaMan]

Wow this is quite early, especially since they're supposed to be holding a March event as well.

Supposed to be? Says who? The "rumors"?

 

[smacrumon]

You say that but you don't know what it costs Apple to put on WWDC. My guess is that it is heavily subsidized. 5000 attendees x $1600 = $8M. When you consider the cost to lease the facility for a week, participation by all Apple engineers, and the lost week of work, the cost is likely many times over $8m.

Apple can send out this flowery verbiage all they want. It doesn't make them a non-profit. This conference is of great benefit to devs on every level of achievement. I don't see why Apple needs to make it 100% free -- and it does give 7% of the tickets to devs that otherwise could not afford them.

Make it near free and make it merit based entry, only the best and brightest, now and up and coming. That will move development forward. Instead we have loads of casino crap apps on the App Store because too much lacklustre gets through. Total rubbish apps.
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That is total idealistic baloney. If car makers truly believed that their vehicles are awesome they should subsidize it 95%. If doctors really believed they are making a difference they should only charge 5%. If you believe you're making a difference in the world you should ask for 5% of what you would ask for in compensation.

See above.
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Lol. Seriously?

So if Apple can only hold 5,000 people in a conference because they have 50 qualified talented speakers to 100 people in a room, should magically be able to hold a conference with 50,000 people with the same 50 speakers speaking to 1000 people in a room? It's very similar to colleges with professors. You can only allow so many people to come to your university. You can't just take everyone and do it for free. You only have so many buildings, so much room and so many people.
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It's been about $1500 for the past 10 years.

And it's price is very similar to all the other conferences. Google I/O is only 3 days and costs $900. Same price per day. Microsoft Build costs $2,195.

Should doctors cap their costs at $100/surgery because that just seems right to you? I don't think you understand what this conference is.... you probably just think it's one 2-hour presentation. That's not what people come for. It's the 4 1/2 days after that.

Same as above. Apple can afford this and the outcomes would be 1000x better.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Well it's gone steadily up in price of the past few years. Cap it at $1000 at least.

Like everything else regarding the cost of hosting a major week long event has not? Why should Apple have to cap the cost if the wages it has to pay out have gone up, if facility fees have gone up, if insurance has gone up, etc., etc. Your cap seems pretty arbitrary. Also the market seems to indicate that $1500 is reasonable because the even sells out in seconds leading to the other thousands that got shut out to bitch and moan on social media.