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Apple Developer Center Opens Ahead of WWDC 2022 With Rooms Named After macOS Releases

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Just one day ahead of WWDC 2022, the all-new Apple Developer Center has opened, with developers able to receive a brief tour of the first floor.

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A room in the Apple Developer Center via Paul Hudson​

Located next to the Apple Park campus, Apple describes the Developer Center as a "world-class facility designed for our community to meet, collaborate with, and learn from our engineers, designers, and experts." The center includes dedicated developer lab areas, pods, briefing centers, a state-of-the-art studio/theater, and more.

Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift visited the Apple Developer Center and shared some photos on Twitter. Notably, he revealed that all of the meeting room names in the Developer Center are named after macOS releases, such as Panther, Leopard, Tiger, and El Capitan. The studio space with a stage and seating is likewise named Big Sur.


According to Apple's schedule, the Developer Center will remain open until 6 p.m. Pacific Time today, and it will be open again starting at 7 a.m. Pacific Time tomorrow. Only those who were invited to WWDC 2022 can attend the open houses.

WWDC 2022 will be held online from June 6 through June 10, with sessions and other content to be made available on Apple's website and in the Apple Developer app free of charge. During the opening keynote, Apple is expected to announce its latest software platforms, including iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9, and tvOS 16, and there is always a chance of a hardware announcement or two at the event.

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If there is one thing Apple is probably happy about from pandemic started is that leaks before WWDC are basically non-existent. I remember leaks of macOS and iOS would happen days before the show.
 
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MacRumors said:
Here’s the Big Sur theater, which is 🤯 in a room. #WWDC22
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Does this finally answer the question, about whether Apple is planning to return to in-person WWDCs?? A bit hard to tell from that one photo, but the theatre appears to be a reasonable size. You kind of glossed over that in the article.
 
It feels like a quiet before the storm. I have to admit, I have never been this excited for a Monday to come. I don’t think the invitation of influential devs and press is necessarily a signal of anything. Apple I believe is just use this as a launching pad to go back in some semblance of normalcy after the past two years.

I expect gradually over the next few years this will grow bigger and hopefully/eventually the traditional WWDC large in person events will return.

I suspect Apple is also using small invitations like this to scout talent interested in joining the company.
 
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If there is one thing Apple is probably happy about from pandemic started is that leaks before WWDC are basically non-existent. I remember leaks of macOS and iOS would happen days before the show.
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Are you joking? There has been leaks for weeks Lol. We know exactly what is being presented tomorrow. In fact leaks are the norm, have you not looked at the MacRumors archive?
 
I wonder if there are bugs in the rooms too, and Apple will fix up the rooms as well over time?
 
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