In person, it is a networking event on top of it being an education event. This is where you find out about cool new stuff going on all around you with your peers so no I hate to say it but bring back the in person week long network event
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Apple Asks Developers Whether They Would Attend In-Person WWDC Following Two Years of Digital Format
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Those video game demos have been extremely bad and boring for the past two or three years. I have felt sorry for the presenters as they probably view it as a career highlight but the demo does no favours to the game and it just deflates the air and momentum in the auditorium.
Exactly.
I miss when the audience went nuts when they saw the Apple Pro Stand's price.
Of course developers want to attend an in-person WWDC. Who wouldn't?
The in-person experience of watching Eddie Cue dance and watching and listening to white people rap just isn't the same over Zoom. 🤣 🤣 🤣
The in-person experience of watching Eddie Cue dance and watching and listening to white people rap just isn't the same over Zoom. 🤣 🤣 🤣
The same I can say for the keynote. I missed it when it was live and all the people. Especially when Steve delivered. These were the days, that man was a master doing it.
Bring back in person and continue to post the lab sessions for free on the developer site. Pretty sure they used to do that anyway.
I’ll take the live keynote over the pre-recorded one. While I’m not a developer, I learn better in person and I’d like to see my “classmates” (fellow developers)
The entire social aspect of WWDC has been missing from virtual events.
I’ll take the live keynote over the pre-recorded one. While I’m not a developer, I learn better in person and I’d like to see my “classmates” (fellow developers)
The entire social aspect of WWDC has been missing from virtual events.
It's also prohibitively expensive if you're a smallish developer outside the US, barriers of access:
- WWDC lottery (every year a larger amount of people for a fixed amount of slots, diminishing chances of winning)
- The event itself high price
- International air fare with possible stops and connections
- Renovating or applying for a US Visa for half of the world (around $200 USD plus an interview and a month or two of wait time for India, China, Brazil, Mexico, etc.)
- Lodging, meals plus local transportation costs on a crowded week
In-person WWDC is mostly for local developers, Silicon Valley & US devs, online WWDC has become truly global.
They should go back to in-person WWDC - but for sure continue the video sessions and making it available to everyone.
They usually sell out every year and being there in person does have significant benefits over online only but it always feels like the people that couldn't get a ticket to attend in person missed out on a lot.
They usually sell out every year and being there in person does have significant benefits over online only but it always feels like the people that couldn't get a ticket to attend in person missed out on a lot.
Do developers hook up during these events? Is this like the Olympics and in the swag bags alongside Apple stickers, Intel chips and 30-pin chargers they toss in a few condoms as well?
I really hope they go back to live WWDCs. The past few digital-only events have basically been:
*multi-minute transition animation*
"Hi, I'm _____________, and this year, we've made Siri slightly less terrible. Now, on to the next presenter…"
*another multi-minute transition animation*
*multi-minute transition animation*
"Hi, I'm _____________, and this year, we've made Siri slightly less terrible. Now, on to the next presenter…"
*another multi-minute transition animation*
I would like to see live presentations again there's a buzz around them, the more we see digital events Apple seems more distant and the events are becoming boring.
Depends I would say
WWDC I think makes more sense as a jive event. The other events I prefer digital
WWDC I think makes more sense as a jive event. The other events I prefer digital
No.
After reviewing these videos, I have grave concerns about health and safety at Apple Park and felt a lot safer attending in-person.
In particular, can we just take a moment to remember Lisa Jackson, who was left to fend off seagulls on the roof of Apple campus?
After reviewing these videos, I have grave concerns about health and safety at Apple Park and felt a lot safer attending in-person.
In particular, can we just take a moment to remember Lisa Jackson, who was left to fend off seagulls on the roof of Apple campus?
I would say DO BOTH! Personally I think the in person is the way to go. Really good way to network and learn about things by talking to people that the virtual method really can’t do.
The problems I see with doing both is so many people and there are only so many Apple Devs to go around.
The problems I see with doing both is so many people and there are only so many Apple Devs to go around.
In-person WWDC attendance comes down to a lottery, so the videos are all most of us will ever get. Since I'm most likely only ever to experience it remotely, I want the better videos from the past two years. They can do whatever they want in person because I'll never get to go.
I think Apple definitely should do live events again just so they could feel our immense disappointment physically
Maybe? I have been to 4 in-person WWDC(all in SF) and they are about 99% male. I have never notice but being California and in some cases being held the week before or the week after SF’s big gay pride parade it probably happens more than I noticed.
WWDC is not a Macworld Expo(they don’t do those anymore) it isn’t for the everyday Apple user if you are a Dev they are(or can be) a massive help.
Attended a few years ago, it’s great to be able to follow everything from home but it’s nothing close to being in the room, going from session to session, interacting with fellow participants, speaking with the Apple folks and of course, the Bash Event 🍻
Faking it on stage is about as difficult as making it actually work. Apple shipped a finished phone 6 months later, and it took them about 5 years total, so it was 90% of the way through its development time by the time they revealed it.
I've tried faking demo-ing projects that didn't work in school. Such presentations don't work out, because your interaction is slightly off and you're exposed.
In contrast, these videos could be nothing but mockups. Any slip up can be edited out. They could just be episodes of Black Mirror or any other show that includes fake UIs (it's not just sci-fi stuff - plenty of shows set in modern times also include fake apps and UIs). These hour long episodes are made in about a month.
The conference hasn't been held in Moscone Center for 5 or 6 years. It's at the McEnery Center in San Jose.