Apple Posts WWDC 2012 Session Videos for Developers

[conradwt]

I heard that this year was actually smaller in total seats than previous years.

This isn't true at all because I have attended WWDC for the past several years including this year and it has been limited to a little over ~6000 attendees and 1000+ engineers. BTW, they have sold out every year that I have attended starting with WWDC 2008 and this year it sold out in less than 2 hours.

 

[ncaissie]

Awesome! I will check these out as soon as I’m done migrating my PC files to my Macbook Pro.

 

[Chundles]

As an attendee of the recent WWDC 2012, there's many things that you're missing beyond the session videos:

- networking and learning in person with other iOS and Mac OS X developers
- QA sessions after each session
- Special lunch time sessions which are not on video
- access to the onsite Apple labs and 1000+ Apple engineers
- Apple awards ceremony
- discounts from companies like the BigNerdRanch.com
- WWDC Bash
- Stump The Experts
- and so on

In short, I felt that I received my money's by having direct access to Apple engineers and being able to network with other developers. It's only once a year and it's always good to invest in ones career.

The good doctor is joking.

 

[mrial]

Apple seems to be upping the Mac developer support. Good, they haven't forgotten that iPads != PCs.

Now they just need to open up the rules a bit in iOS and Mac OS so your apps can actually be plugins for other apps. Especially in Mac OS, having a system where each app is almost completely isolated from other apps is secure (of course) but not as versatile. It's North Korea-style security.

fixed.

 

[pohl]

WWDC Videos on iPad (UX)

The User eXperience of watching WWDC session videos on the iPad has always been a thorn in my side.

Back when the 2011 videos were new, I downloaded them all to my computer (in Standard Definition) and synced them all to my iPad so that I would have immediate offline access to them all should I find myself with a free hour to spend.

Sadly, the Videos application has one horrible UX problem: the names of each session video was very long, but the label in Videos is too short, and so they all endup being truncated, like "Session 205 - Introducing Collection Vi...". Even in landscape, mind you! Half of the screen was wasted with a graphic that added no useful information.

Halfway through the year, things got a lot better when the "iTunes U" app was released, and browsing the 2011 videos immediately became much better. The Videos app still has the same usability issue (and I think they should still fix it), but the iTunes U app is better so at least I can avoid the bad app.

Well, last night I downloaded the 2012 session videos and synced them over to my iPad, and now iTunes U has a horrible UX, because the videos from 2011 and 2012 are all mixed in the same list, and there's no way to tell from the session title which year it came from. Yikes!

Does no one at Apple dogfood their own learning application with their own content?

 

[Doctor Q]

The good doctor is joking.

Thanks for pointing that out.

But thanks to conradwt too, for the summary of the benefits of attendance.