That's the first time that the price in EUR is cheaper. I am paying more on every hardware productApparently. Yours cost ca. USD $29 less than mine
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WWDC 2016 Lottery Ends, Apple Starts Charging Developers Who Won Tickets
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You're buying the combination code that unlocks the vault of priceless expertise which is given to you by real Apple employees who write the code for the devices you love.
If you write apps/manufacture accessories which make you hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, you won't balk at $1,599 for day #1 info on how to improve your products and access the new APIs that will make or break your app.
From a sit at home consumer perspective, $1,599 is a lot of money if you're looking at it as passive entertainment, possibly forgetting that WWDC = "World Wide DEVELOPER conference" - it's far deeper and broader than that. Do you think it's just a 2-3 hour Keynote, and then you all go home? LOL!
If you're serious, this is the event to attend. If you value knowledge that enhances and evolves your products, this is merely a business expense.
If you write apps/manufacture accessories which make you hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, you won't balk at $1,599 for day #1 info on how to improve your products and access the new APIs that will make or break your app.
From a sit at home consumer perspective, $1,599 is a lot of money if you're looking at it as passive entertainment, possibly forgetting that WWDC = "World Wide DEVELOPER conference" - it's far deeper and broader than that. Do you think it's just a 2-3 hour Keynote, and then you all go home? LOL!
If you're serious, this is the event to attend. If you value knowledge that enhances and evolves your products, this is merely a business expense.
What I would like from WWDC:
Services
Encrypted iCloud backups
Granular control over iCloud backups and restores
New iCloud storage tiers - 20GB for all for free, lower prices for higher tiers
iOS 10
Dark Mode with sunrise/sunset option
All apps rewritten in swift
Control Center/Notification Center UX improvements as part of general UI refresh
New swipe typing mode for faster text input
Siri API
Widgets moved to Proactive screen
Faster across the system
Split screen improved - all apps supported and two instances of same app possible
Textual Siri
Feature improvements in core apps - Snooze Mail and Messages, FaceTime Voicemail, overhauled and smarter Calendar, granular read receipts, larger emojis, more intelligent content sending (thumbnails for videos, etc) and more
Photos/Camera overhaul - new filters and now phones with lots of free space can set how much to allocate for downloading pictures offline
Completely overhauled MUSIC UI, with crossfade playback and lyrics, smart playlist creation support with more variables “Most played this week” for example, better playlist sharing (two-way collaboration) and much more
Improves battery life across phone
Option at install to “clean” restore phone with only certain things, e.g. Health data, Messages and usual iCloud stuff but no apps or settings.
Better use of space on iPad homescreen
macOS 12
Refined UX including Control Center for Mac (replacing Apple Menu and cleaning up much of menu bar, pinning items to menu bar optionally available)
General UI updates and feature improvements in line with iOS 10
Dark Mode expanded to include window chrome / toolbars across all apps
Photos improvements to match iOS 10 with paid extension to add Aperture-esque functionality
Easily uninstall and reinstall stock apps
Picture in Picture
Night Shift
Siri
Unlock Mac with iPhone
Push email with App shut
Music app for Mac, best of old iTunes with MUSIC
New Devices app for managing all Phones, TVs, Watches, iPads, etc.
Other software updates
watchOS 3
tvOS 9.3
Hardware
New 14 inch MacBook
14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros
Air discontinued
Services
Encrypted iCloud backups
Granular control over iCloud backups and restores
New iCloud storage tiers - 20GB for all for free, lower prices for higher tiers
iOS 10
Dark Mode with sunrise/sunset option
All apps rewritten in swift
Control Center/Notification Center UX improvements as part of general UI refresh
New swipe typing mode for faster text input
Siri API
Widgets moved to Proactive screen
Faster across the system
Split screen improved - all apps supported and two instances of same app possible
Textual Siri
Feature improvements in core apps - Snooze Mail and Messages, FaceTime Voicemail, overhauled and smarter Calendar, granular read receipts, larger emojis, more intelligent content sending (thumbnails for videos, etc) and more
Photos/Camera overhaul - new filters and now phones with lots of free space can set how much to allocate for downloading pictures offline
Completely overhauled MUSIC UI, with crossfade playback and lyrics, smart playlist creation support with more variables “Most played this week” for example, better playlist sharing (two-way collaboration) and much more
Improves battery life across phone
Option at install to “clean” restore phone with only certain things, e.g. Health data, Messages and usual iCloud stuff but no apps or settings.
Better use of space on iPad homescreen
macOS 12
Refined UX including Control Center for Mac (replacing Apple Menu and cleaning up much of menu bar, pinning items to menu bar optionally available)
General UI updates and feature improvements in line with iOS 10
Dark Mode expanded to include window chrome / toolbars across all apps
Photos improvements to match iOS 10 with paid extension to add Aperture-esque functionality
Easily uninstall and reinstall stock apps
Picture in Picture
Night Shift
Siri
Unlock Mac with iPhone
Push email with App shut
Music app for Mac, best of old iTunes with MUSIC
New Devices app for managing all Phones, TVs, Watches, iPads, etc.
Other software updates
watchOS 3
tvOS 9.3
Hardware
New 14 inch MacBook
14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros
Air discontinued
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Nice list, some useful ideas in there.What I would like from WWDC:
Services
Encrypted iCloud backups
Granular control over iCloud backups and restores
New iCloud storage tiers - 20GB for all for free, lower prices for higher tiers
iOS 10
Dark Mode with sunrise/sunset option
All apps rewritten in swift
Control Center/Notification Center UX improvements as part of general UI refresh
New swipe typing mode for faster text input
Siri API
Widgets moved to Proactive screen
Faster across the system
Split screen improved - all apps supported and two instances of same app possible
Textual Siri
Feature improvements in core apps - Snooze Mail and Messages, FaceTime Voicemail, overhauled and smarter Calendar, granular read receipts, larger emojis, more intelligent content sending (thumbnails for videos, etc) and more
Photos/Camera overhaul - new filters and now phones with lots of free space can set how much to allocate for downloading pictures offline
Completely overhauled MUSIC UI, with crossfade playback and lyrics, smart playlist creation support with more variables “Most played this week” for example, better playlist sharing (two-way collaboration) and much more
Improves battery life across phone
Option at install to “clean” restore phone with only certain things, e.g. Health data, Messages and usual iCloud stuff but no apps or settings.
Better use of space on iPad homescreen
macOS 12
Refined UX including Control Center for Mac (replacing Apple Menu and cleaning up much of menu bar, pinning items to menu bar optionally available)
General UI updates and feature improvements in line with iOS 10
Dark Mode expanded to include window chrome / toolbars across all apps
Photos improvements to match iOS 10 with paid extension to add Aperture-esque functionality
Easily uninstall and reinstall stock apps
Picture in Picture
Night Shift
Siri
Unlock Mac with iPhone
Push email with App shut
Music app for Mac, best of old iTunes with MUSIC
New Devices app for managing all Phones, TVs, Watches, iPads, etc.
Other software updates
watchOS 3
tvOS 9.3
Hardware
New 14 inch MacBook
14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros Air discontinued
Though you quoted my reply to a user who stated what students get for free and why such conferences are not beneficial to them anyway
ie they don't get benefit from meeting engineers etc.I agree with you about the cost of these conferences, industry pricing , anyone working in development, will either have the company pay for it , or write it off as an expense under tax. Just sucks to be a student....or a Dev without a steady job.
I guess you could sell that ticket for $2500 or so. So yeah you are right, that's great flipping expertise.
oops- I'm 51 and don't do much dev myself anymore, but I do run an SME that does, and I have a ticket. But I am expecting it still to be valuable for networking and inspiration... I hope not to feel obscenely old though
You have absolutely no clue how valuable hands-on time with their engineers is. It's quite possible that it's not beneficial to your job, but this is actually on the lower end of the spectrum for Conferences cost, and our developers benefit from this far beyond the cost, in terms of productivity. Lots of ignorance in this thread from people who wouldn't benefit beyond having fun at the keynote.
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You win the ability to spend 1:1 time with Apple engineers. This is worth far more than 1600 to many organizations. WWDC is about far more than the Keynote, which is usually the least valuable part.
Yeah, I am. Some people won the opportunity to exchange money for time with the Engineers. Given the cost and benefit, I would say that's a win. If those people who won don't want to go, I would be happy for another chance to win their spot.
Only the bottom quote in my post was directed at you.