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First WWDC 2018 Decorations Start Going Up at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose

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The 2018 Worldwide Developers Conference is set to kick off in five days, and ahead of the event, Apple has started decorating the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, which is where the conference will take place.

Apple's WWDC 2018 convention center decorations feature the same design as the rest of Apple's WWDC imagery used for the WWDC site, invitations, and app, featuring 3D buttons, toggles, and text on a white background.

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#WWDC banners are going up on the convention center! pic.twitter.com/po7P361IwF - Aaron Stephenson (@iosaaron) May 30, 2018
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Apple has taken over the entire front entrance of the convention center, as it did with last year's decorations. Additional banners and decorations will be added over the course of the weekend.

Since last year, Apple has been hosting WWDC in San Jose, a departure from the many years where the event was held at Moscone West in San Francisco.

The San Jose location is closer to Apple's campuses and office spaces in Cupertino and the rest of the South Bay, and it is also more affordable for developers due to cheaper hotel options in the area.

It's happening!! #wwdc2018 A post shared by App Developer For Startups (@azzoor) on May 30, 2018 at 12:24pm PDT​
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Apple's WWDC 2018 convention center decorations feature the same design as the rest of Apple's WWDC imagery used for the WWDC site, invitations, and app, featuring 3D buttons, toggles, and text on a white background.
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I wonder if they’re going to be updating the GUI at all; I’d love to see iOS’s current design scheme with a bit more depth.
 
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Every time I see those UI elements scattered all over, I can only think of 3 things it must mean.

  1. They are redesigning iOS UI elements and making them all white/clear and somehow adding depth to the elements.
  2. They are adding some kind of AR interface and it uses the UI elements from iOS but in 3D.
  3. They are adding a theming capability to iOS 12 and so you'll be able to perhaps grab themes from the App Store? Might explain why all the UI elements look white/clear, because they are essentially "blank", since no theme is applied in the WWDC image?
Either way, hope it's the first option since they already were rumored to completely redesign iOS 12, at least until the rumors then said it had been pushed to next years release to focus on bugs and optimizations for this release.
 
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Another vote for the Mac Pro. Give us something - it's like living in the desert for us. Don't care about watchbands, bad headphones (Sennheiser is better).

I don't want to have to switch to PC... Come on Tim, don't fail us.
 
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BigJohno said:
Take out touchbar
Add 6 core i9 processor
Decent GPU (but really what is there from AMD that's better than what we got now?)
Reduce the bezels even more.
Reduce the price a little.
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I'd like to see either a slight resolution bump to make the 15" 3360x2100 (2880x1800 has been unchanged since 2012), or reintroduction of the 17" with a Retina 4K display. Not very optimistic about either of these, though.
 
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redheeler said:
I'd like to see either a slight resolution bump to make the 15" 3360x2100 (2880x1800 has been unchanged since 2012), or reintroduction of the 17" with a Retina 4K display. Not very optimistic about either of these, though.
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I’d be willing to forgive Tim Cooks’ many transgressions if he brought back the 17” MBP. Sans gimmick bar and with all other concerns and flaws in the line up addressed. He can keep it if it’s just a scaled up version of the disaster that is the 2017/2018 15” MBP.
 
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What I think is interesting is just how quiet everything has been from Apple's end in the past few months. Not a peep... and very few rumours. Makes me think that this WWDC could be a very big deal.
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Is that supposed to be sarcastic?
No rumors usually means there'll be no meaningful announcement.
 
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