Apple's WWDC App is Now 'Apple Developer App' With Year Round News, Videos and More

[adamw]

Great! Good to see this App year round.

 

[Vjosullivan]

well for one thing “developer” is singular. There’s a lot more than one developer.

If so then: There are a lot more than one.

 

[Rogifan]

The name WWDC isn‘t going anywhere. But if they’re updating the content in this app more regularly now it makes sense to rename it because it will include more than just WWDC sessions.

 

[Object-X]

I had to delete the WWDC app to get the update

 

[nt5672]

This is stupid. Renaming the app and probably soon the conference is just being vain!

developers are located worldwide and Apple pretty much sells products worldwide too.

so one has to ask why or whom at Apple is making such a vain decision? Whom is being ousted or who. Is being forgotten in relevance to this?

it’s like rebranding something just because with no real relevance ; kind of like the Ford Mach E.

Apple is a marketing company not a tech developer company. This makes perfect sense, they can't have something techy, read nerdy, like WWDC when they want to rub shoulders with the Hollywood elite.

 

[PlayUltimate]

I appreciate the name change; it supports the idea that the app is not JUST a conference app. The name change shows that it is something useful for all developers even those not attending the conference. Has the actual content changed? Not that I can see (but I have not looked in depth). But for folks new to developing that are looking for content in the App Store, the name change matters.
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I had to delete the WWDC app to get the update

I went to the App Store to find the app. Next to the name it said, "open". I clicked on it and it opened the WWDC app.

 

[farewelwilliams]

and if you haven’t noticed more than 1 month after WWDC finished content has been added - at least via the TVOS app even if minimal. It has happened. Actually even up to the 11Pro AppleWatch 5 announcements.

that's the problem. i didn't notice because i thought the WWDC app only had new content around WWDC time. you just gave a reason for Apple to change the name of the app.

 

[recoil80]

A missed opportunity to also add a Catalyst version. I’d like to organise the developer videos on macOS too.

I'm not a fan of Catalyst apps but it would be better than nothing.
If you want something related to WWDC on macOS check out this great app made by Rambo (the developer behind many leaks) https://wwdc.io/

 

[jonblatho]

I’m not bitching so hard. Nor at all.
It seems change at Apple is being done simply for the sake of change and many accept it just to roll along.

Example:

OS X to macOS just for cosmetic reasons and many on the boards think it’s a completely new OS when the kernel and many of the core apis remain.
- OS X has many ties to former NeXT employees that moved over to Apple and stayed until they’ve either retired or were ousted (Avi Tevanian, Netrand Serlet, and Scott Forstall). Yes Craig also came from NeXT yet he left for 8yrs to be a COO elsewhere then came back. Seems like there was a power struggle he didn’t like and when returned and Jobs began getting ill the turmoil with Forstall grew; we know the story.
Now this. There is nothing to stop apple from just releasing new content and be done with it. But let’s change things just because.
- Macworld name changed and one could make the same statements as I’ve done here. But Apple is no longer just about the Mac hence also Apple Computer name changed but it was for good reason. This change today or now yesterday has no real reason just a change. Why not ask why or consider potential reasons. Why shouldn’t Apple explain the change? Why should they? Maybe to eliminate potential or Rawal confusion as a reason.

Not sure that launching into a rant about the history of the macOS brand, the executives behind it, NeXT, and Macworld was the best idea for proving that you weren’t overly upset about something as inconsequential as the name of the former WWDC app.

Through all of that, you actually answered your own question, though.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

hah! I saw an app updating with a name I didn’t recognized. Very good news! 👏

 

[edgonzalez32]

This is stupid. Renaming the app and probably soon the conference is just being vain!

developers are located worldwide and Apple pretty much sells products worldwide too.

so one has to ask why or whom at Apple is making such a vain decision? Whom is being ousted or who. Is being forgotten in relevance to this?

it’s like rebranding something just because with no real relevance ; kind of like the Ford Mach E.

The name has zero effect on the conference. Renaming it to "Apple Developer Conference" makes a ton of sense, does it not?

 

[Mr. Awesome]

Well, yeah, if they’re planning on renaming the conference to XYZ and say “XYZ content,” people are going to wonder what the hell they’re talking about. Just because the description doesn’t provide a new name for the conference doesn’t mean that one isn’t going to happen.

That said, I doubt that they’re going to change the name of the conference. For better or worse, “WWDC” itself is essentially a brand at this point.

My point is still valid: Why does everybody insist that they're changing WWDC? They're just expanding the app's capabilities. As you said, WWDC is basically a brand and people would be outraged if they changed it. "Steve never would have done that..." etc. I think that they know that that would happen and they won't change it. I was just using the app description as another example.

 

[DeepIn2U]

The name has zero effect on the conference. Renaming it to "Apple Developer Conference" makes a ton of sense, does it not?

debatable yet so could the current name. Bet best rebuttal yet.
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Not sure that launching into a rant about the history of the macOS brand, the executives behind it, NeXT, and Macworld was the best idea for proving that you weren’t overly upset about something as inconsequential as the name of the former WWDC app.

Through all of that, you actually answered your own question, though.

there is some relevance ... you may not agree and that's fine but the recent changes and who's made them does have some relevance. Anyone recall the opening of WWDC 2018/17 ... the first few minutes yeah you'll understand were I'm coming from then.
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that's the problem. i didn't notice because i thought the WWDC app only had new content around WWDC time. you just gave a reason for Apple to change the name of the app.

not really you didn't notice because it was Apple whom never advertised the change. That's not your fault or other developers/users ... Apple just needed to broadcast the update ... or enable the push notifications. Then again many may have deleted it shortly after the conference was over. Again Apple needed to publicly update the change like their doing now. it's simplicity really. not sure why nobody is seeing it on my view but alas glad people have different views it's healthy for us all. but I can fully see where you're coming from.
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Apple is a marketing company not a tech developer company. This makes perfect sense, they can't have something techy, read nerdy, like WWDC when they want to rub shoulders with the Hollywood elite.

Huh?

Xcode, SWIFT, AppleScript, developing many of their own software in which they heavily use internally or purchasing other companies for software and rapidly and exponentially increase functionality internally. An example of the latter LOGIC ... Apple purchase it and massively increased it with so many features and instruments and functionality with good integration into Final Cut which I think they created in-house not 1000% sure on the latter. So I think you're not fully correct, but I do agree their HUGE in marketing.
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Here’s something that may shock you. You can also use iMovie to make more than movie. And it is ok to make a one page document in Pages.

Developers is the plural, btw. Which Apple uses correctly, but you haven’t here - developer’s is the singular possessive.

FRAQ ... you killed me there

iMovie is a brand for software, so not a good example but nonetheless dead in my tracks.

 

[nicho]

FRAQ ... you killed me there

iMovie is a brand for software, so not a good example but nonetheless dead in my tracks.

I suspect Apple Computer made more than one computer before 2007.