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Apple Announces WWDC 2020 Will Be a Digital-Only Event Set to Take Place in June
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China is recovering quickly from the pandemic. I guess we should move all remaining industry to China to avoid supply chain interruptions. 😂🤣
I'm really really interested how they will solve that. Only the presenting people are presenting directly to the camera? Would be strange. I'm not sure if they will have a (large) audience. I mean would you put your most important managers into a room with people who could infect them with a virus which could be very harmful for them? Keep in mind that Phil Schiller will be 60 years old, which makes him more vulnerable to a more serious course of the disease... It'll be really interesting which way they are going. A keynote without cheering, laughter and gasps would be strange, but even if the probability is <0,1% that their management staff could be contaminated during the event, I see no other option than to remove the possible contagious people...
You do realize planning for this is not that simple right? I work at a university and we are finishing final touches on moving accepted students day, which has 8 separate days, to an entirely online experience, in a matter of 2 weeks. That’s just a site that has about 5 top level pages.
that’s not including prepping the entire university to teach remotely, which that in itself takes a long time.
it took so long because it’s a massive lift in rethinking every facet of it.
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There’s going to be a Keynote still. Awesome. We’ll definitely be seeing some hardware.
Maybe this month’s event will be our first look at how a digital event would look. Unless they totally scrapped it and are waiting for WWDC.
Maybe this month’s event will be our first look at how a digital event would look. Unless they totally scrapped it and are waiting for WWDC.
This is good news! I can once again attend all the WWDC sessions without wearing pants!
Last time I did that, it didn't work out well.
Last time I did that, it didn't work out well.
But they don't have to "rethink every facet of it" right now. They have 3 months to prepare, not the two weeks you had to deal with. They probably started putting a task force together in the past couple of weeks to plan this out.
But, I am glad Apple finally came out with the decision.
You beat me to the punch. This was the first thing that popped in my head....we're getting a new iMac!!!!
It makes no difference for some. I’d love to go just for the atmosphere but I’ll never get a chance. At least it’s still going ahead so we can see iOS 14.
In other news, doesn't the WWDC artwork remind you of a MacBook laptop covered in stickers?
Could this hint at a possible teaser or reveal of an ARM-based MacBook during the event?
Came here to say exactly that. The gradient over the the logo on grey to look like the top of a laptop, the stickers on top of that look like stickers on a laptop. Fair enough, you could say it points to a Mac heavy event.
But the fact that one of them says 'hello' in the 1984 Mac demo font?? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Apple's marketing team is smart enough to be aware that out of everything they could possibly use on this, that word, in that font, is so significantly tied to a historic moment in Mac, it genuinely can't mean anything but that.
I also immediately thought of laptop stickers.In other news, doesn't the WWDC artwork remind you of a MacBook laptop covered in stickers?
Could this hint at a possible teaser or reveal of an ARM-based MacBook during the event?
Looks like the focus of this event will be the Mac.
WWDC has already been online-only for 20 years for people who can’t afford to visit in person
This is even funnier in British English.
It's totally unnecessary as the spread of virus will be extremely low by mid-year and the attendees will have a temperature check before entering the venue.