Apple Announces WWDC 2018 Kicks Off on June 4 in San Jose, Registration Now Open for Developers

[digitalexplr]

Be sure to check out the gorgeous animation on Apple's page: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/

Looks a lot better on the website!

 

[tliede20]

I'll be happy when a dark mode arrives so we can finally stop hearing people complain about it not being there, or being skeptical of its possible arrival.

It's become the new 'is safari snappier?' battle-cry.

COME ON NOW... you know once it happens the argument won't go away, it'll change to HOW THEY DON'T LIKE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IT.

 

[Superhappytree]

I just want to add that this is the most (actually the only) 3D looking thing they have done in years. It is also the best looking/most original WWDC banner they’ve done in years. Funny that.

 

[Dydegu]

I guess no March event then?

Should be a great year for WWDC. Can’t wait!

 

[DNichter]

I guess no March event then?

Should be a great year for WWDC. Can’t wait!

The only products rumored for March were an updated budget iPad and a new SE, potentially. I don't think either would need more than a press release.

 

[McTool]

Apple AR glasses confirmed. Notice how on the webpage the UI elements fade in.

Who confirmed it then?

 

[-BigMac-]

HOLOGRAPHIC????

 

[IGendel]

We still don't have all the features announced at the last WWDC! Where's iMessage cloud sync?

Messages in the Cloud is already part of iOS 11.3 beta and will be coming when that final version ships

 

[jackson83]

Chip layout anyone!?

 

[now i see it]

The UI is going to change to give it more depth. The current flat look blows. It's unnecessarily simplistic.

 

[AppleMad98004]

Take away already.....

Any software iOS etc... Released late Sept.

Hardware introduced available Q1 2019 (maybe)

 

[Tanax]

We still don't have all the features announced at the last WWDC! Where's iMessage cloud sync?

They never announced iMessage cloud sync.
They did announce Messages iCloud sync however.

 

[groovyd]

perhaps AR apps can now render and allows interaction with the standard UI elements in 3 space? Like putting a slider on your table top and then projecting your emails onto it?

 

[kildraik]

Lord. Likely AR and/or 3D UI. Boring.

 

[silentdevotion]

This looks a lot like a mix between skeuomorphism and flat design...

I waited my entire life to say this, it's unapologetically skeuomorphicly flat.

 

[yoz-y]

We still don't have all the features announced at the last WWDC! Where's iMessage cloud sync?

Well. We got the “2 year cycle” everybody was wishing for and this is one of the results. I am glad that they take their time with this one.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Looking forward to June, and what Apple has planned to tempt me.

 

[TheTissot11]

So Craig Federighi will go crazy and boast about most advanced operating systems while completely forgetting the bugs and the mess the current iOS and macOS have become...

 

[deuxani]

This is as skeuomorphic as anything Forstall's ever done. Just using different materials:

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Looks awesome – skeuormophism is back, baby!

This teaser had nothing to do with skeuomorphism. 3D is not skeuomorphism, it's just.... 3D. It has more depth and shadow than we have right now. That's it.

Skeuomorphism is where an object in software mimics its real world counterpart. On the early versions of iOS the Contacts app that looked like a phone book, the Voice Memos app that looked like a microphone, the Game Center App that looked like a casino table, etc. are some nice examples.

 

[Kardinal1911]

It screams 3D to me... programming language as well

 

[33man]

Maybe 3D ui experience with face id to locate your eyes and create stereoscopic effect

 

[fuchsdh]

I'll be happy when a dark mode arrives so we can finally stop hearing people complain about it not being there, or being skeptical of its possible arrival.

It's become the new 'is safari snappier?' battle-cry.

To be fair to the dark mode people, now that there's an iPhone shipping with an OLED screen that could see dramatic boosts to battery life by embracing "true" blacks in the UI, their clamoring is more justified than ever.

I'd say this invitation is more inscrutable than the usual, if you'tr in the "reading tea leaves" business

 

[rixax]

Can’t wait to upgrade my iPad Air... looking forward to a new pro with Face ID.

With 32 Gig of Ram or I'm porting over.

 

[jonnysods]

The invites would have long since gone out if there was to be a march event - a press release was always more likely

Sometimes they do it just a week out, there’s still hope....

 

[nviz22]

iOS12: Disappointment at It's Finest!