Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

WWDC Sells Out for the First Time in History

Please give me redesigned notebooks

Tallest Skil said:
Keep your pants on and don't hold your breath. I don't think so.
Click to expand...

I am planning on getting rid of my macbook pro (santa rosa if anyone is interested) in favor of an iMac and then picking up a macbook once they are redesigned, so please let the redesign happen!!
 
People are setting themselves up for disappointment. We will see the launch of iTunes App store, firmware update, and 3 G iPhone, but none of the other stuff like the iTablet or whatever. Mark my words!
 
Great!
please bring exciting products to us on WWDC!!
I miss the phrase "one more thing" so much.
 
queshy said:
People are setting themselves up for disappointment. We will see the launch of iTunes App store, firmware update, and 3 G iPhone, but none of the other stuff like the iTablet or whatever. Mark my words!
Click to expand...

I think you hit the bullseye, people get way too hyped up over these events. I for one feel that Apple is spreading itself thin, and paying too much attention to their iPhone instead of their mainstream computers.
 
Mac Tablet would be really cool, so would a "computer desktop" docking station for the iPhone and iPod Touch!! Hey, should I wait to get a MacBook Pro until after the WWDC? Advice is appreciated! Thanks


Long live  and long live OS X!!
 
I think that place is going to be packed. I think it's going to be bigger than a U2 concert and a potential soccer riot. I expect many hundreds of thousands of people to be there. There are going to be people crowded outside the building all pissed off because they can't get in since the place only holds about 100 people. If Jobs doesn't announce a 3G iPhone I expect the destruction of property, bricks being thrown at passing motorists, looting, the tipping over of cars and molotov cocktail galore. :apple:
 
trevelyn said:
I think that place is going to be packed. I think it's going to be bigger than a U2 concert and a potential soccer riot. I expect many hundreds of thousands of people to be there. There are going to be people crowded outside the building all pissed off because they can't get in since the place only holds about 100 people. If Jobs doesn't announce a 3G iPhone I expect the destruction of property, bricks being thrown at passing motorists, looting, the tipping over of cars and molotov cocktail galore. :apple:
Click to expand...


What are you talking about???

What "place" only holds 100 people?
 
just another way to get some moola

Although WWDC is getting pretty popular, I find it hard to believe that it is sold out. The conspiracy theorist in me says that this is just a way for Apple to milk some money on iTunes for the session webcasts.
 
supaben34 said:
Although WWDC is getting pretty popular, I find it hard to believe that it is sold out. The conspiracy theorist in me says that this is just a way for Apple to milk some money on iTunes for the session webcasts.
Click to expand...

I doubt it since they would probably make more money on the hefty registration fee ($1300 or so, can't remember) than selling a few sessions on iTunes.

Anyway, this year will be my first WWDC and I'm really looking forward to it!
 
lostngone said:
What are you talking about???

What "place" only holds 100 people?
Click to expand...

So if you met a guy that could rip a telephone book in half, balance a ladder on his teeth and whistle flight of the bumblebee note for note in 10 seconds the only thing you would question is why he wore a yellow suit?

You need to step back and realize that the entire concept is ridiculous and just simply walk away with understanding you have read something that can not be argued in a logical sense. :D

Anyway. If a tablet and 3G phone is announced and released, I will be buying both! :apple:
 
Yes

macman7002 said:
Mac Tablet would be really cool, so would a "computer desktop" docking station for the iPhone and iPod Touch!! Hey, should I wait to get a MacBook Pro until after the WWDC? Advice is appreciated! Thanks


Long live  and long live OS X!!
Click to expand...

Definitely you should wait. Rumor has it that an all new redesigned macbook pro built around the intel montevina chipset will be introduced at WWDC.

Who knows if the rumor is accurate but I would definitely wait since WWDC is so close. I am going to wait, plus I am hoping that Apple might even introduce a 15" MBA built around the Montevina chipset since it is low power and about the same size as the special chipset used by the MBA 13".
 
Yes, it's a developers' conference, but, after Macworld, it's also probably the best known Apple event. Most people expect a memorable "Stevenote" at WWDC. Besides, WWDC has seen a few product launches. Obviously last year we saw the iPhone, and in 2006 both the Mac Pro and Xserve were announced. And in 2004, just after WWDC, the G5 iMac was released. So clearly over the past few years, WWDC has slowly become larger in scope as Apple has become more popular.

And it makes sense. After all, a developer needs hardware to develop, do they not?
 
nagromme said:
Reminds me of this article from a year ago about developers drifting away from Windows (often toward Linux):
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=18448

If you believe that survey, the number of Windows developers is shrinking rather than growing. I bet that's not true of Mac OS X or OS X Touch (or whatever name they will eventually get around to choosing).
Click to expand...
The number of Windows developers may be shrinking, but it still doesn't take away from the fact that there are exponentially more developers + software on Windows than there is on Linux and Mac OS X. It's equivalent to saying how Mac OS X is gaining market share, yet it still has a tiny amount (still anywhere from 3-7% or so.)

Also, I do believe Apple just calls it the "iPhone OS," as it's basically a modified version of Mac OS X. But the versioning scheme shows that Apple considers iPhone OS to be its own thing, as the upcoming version is 2, as opposed to a 10.5.x deviation.
 
arn said:
There won't be any. Everything except the keynote is under NDA.

arn
Click to expand...
Not to mention the videos won't appeal to anyone other than developers, anyway. The average consumer may want to watch the Stevenote, but the actual session videos are largely technical and boring.

Although I do recall someone leaking a vid onto YouTube that basically talked a lot about the underlying technology of Time Machine.
 
kjs862 said:
I think you hit the bullseye, people get way too hyped up over these events. I for one feel that Apple is spreading itself thin, and paying too much attention to their iPhone instead of their mainstream computers.
Click to expand...

ALso, remember last years WWDC? People were speculating...new iPods? MacBook Pro redesign? Ultraportable? etc. Last years WWDC was surely the most disappointing Apple event in a while....half of it was pretty much a recap of what we ALREADY saw about Leopard!

I mean, I'd love some cool new product announcements as much as the next person, but we shouldn't get all riled up about these ballpark expectations some are having. I hope I'm wrong, though, hah.
 
ehurtley said:
That is quite impressive. I wonder what percentage are new-to-Apple developers because of the iPhone, what percentage are long-time Mac developers who have never gone to a WWDC before, and what percentage are really non-developers willing to pay the large fee just to see the keynote?
Click to expand...

Just thought I'd share that I'm a recent convert that is just starting to get into OSX development. It's funny because in the 15 years of using computers (I'm 24 now) I had never owned a Mac, except for a powerbook for a very short time. I remember when I was a little kid my Dad took me to a local reseller shop as we needed a new computer. We looked at the Macs they had that were at the time running "soft windows" or whatever, and TV tuners had just become a big fad. We almost ended up buying one, but my father just couldn't get himself to "cross over to the dark side" , as he also had used PCs since the dark ages. (and no, he's a physician, not a geek.) So I grew up exclusively on DOS/Windows, only using Macs in junior-high and high-school --- I had sworn to never buy a Mac. Over the last 5 years or so, as I got more involved with web development and software development in california, I started to follow the progress of Macs up through the G5.

Fast forward a few years and I now spend an unhealthy amount of time following every post on multiple Apple rumor websites, not least because I have a decent long position in APPL. The next computer I buy will no doubt be the Nehalem Mac Pro and probably the 2nd generation of the Macbook Air (when it has an expresscard slot for 3G modem and USB3/Firewire 3200). I am also starting to become an OSX developer, and am very interested in experimenting with the iPhone.
I am confident that Apple will have an amazing next five years, and we'll see a fundamental shift in the broad computer and consumer electronics market, i.e., anything to do with servers/workstations/home PCs/laptops/ultra-portables/UMPCs/MIDs/cell-phone/etc. Apparently, I took less of a sip, and more of a chug of the kool-aid. :) I know a lot of this is fairly obvious, but I think a big part of this shift that I've also seen in other Windows or Linux eco-system people has been caused by a few things:

1) Macs now use Intel processors. Suddenly, you could continue to use XP for development and for certain crucial apps (Visual Studio, etc) while learning to use OSX on the same machine.

2) Open source software and cross-platform development gained a lot of momentum, including Linux and BSD. You can now run all three major operating systems on one machine.

3) Windows XP lingered for years without any major update.

4) The disaster that is Windows Vista is released upon the world.

5) The iPhone is released, and every developer (and consumer) wants one. It highlights not only the incredible interface design of Apple, but also the strengths of OSX.

end result == More Apple customers and developers than ever, and a sold out WWDC. Also, my PC-stalwart father is going to buy an iPhone and a Macbook Air soon. I think Apple will do just fine over the coming years. :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back