I wouldn't be surprised there if a build of Mac OS X running on an ARM developer board on a test bench in the Bomb Shelter up and running for internal demos. Will it see the light of day? Good question!About MacOS running on ARM chips?
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WWDC to Be Held June 13 to June 17 in San Francisco
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About MacOS running on ARM chips?
I could see the MacMini and the MacBook getting this treatment.
The iMac, Mac Pro, and MacBook Pro will probably continue using Intel for at least the next year.
this can be a very nice and important WWDC for Apple IF:
12" Macbook will be silent updated this week i suppose.
1) Redesign 13" and 15" Mbp 99% chance
2) Redesign the mac mini 90% chance
3) Update for Mac Pro 90% chance
4) Thunderbolt 5k Display 90% chance
All of this can be in 1 hour
For the left hour: demo for iOS10 (focusing in a big way with new features for the ipads pro), MacOS (maybe siri), TvOS and WatchOS all 99% chance
Apple Watch S presentation 60% chance
12" Macbook will be silent updated this week i suppose.
1) Redesign 13" and 15" Mbp 99% chance
2) Redesign the mac mini 90% chance
3) Update for Mac Pro 90% chance
4) Thunderbolt 5k Display 90% chance
All of this can be in 1 hour
For the left hour: demo for iOS10 (focusing in a big way with new features for the ipads pro), MacOS (maybe siri), TvOS and WatchOS all 99% chance
Apple Watch S presentation 60% chance
I don't see Intel dropped for ARM in whole, at least at the start. My guess is we'll see a MacBook Air or equivalent running ARM with an Intel instruction set emulator in the release. Then Xcode updates to build fat binaries for both Intel and ARM akin to the ole Intel / PPC fat binaries. As this continues, more Mac ARM hardware comes out with the inevitable ARM Hackintoshes out there.
This isn't a simple press conference and convention.
The fee includes hands-on training sessions, one-on-one meetings with Apple software engineers (who would normally be back at Apple working on stuff), and other things developers find extremely valuable.
I wonder if the lottery system will be changed once Apple opens their new campus. Perhaps they'll hold the conference there and be able to accommodate more people?
I have zero doubt there's an ARM build of OS X.
Apple secretly maintained an x86 build of OS X from the beginning, after all. ("Project Marklar".)
You don't have to attend WWDC, particularly if you don't find any value in it. Same for the $100/year.
If the annual fee in particular is a financial burden, have you considered a different line of work?
I have dropped $5K for week-long similar technical conferences receiving a fraction of what you get out of WWDC. The $1600, they ask for the duration of WWDC and the contacts is chump change for what you get out of it. Even was dating someone I met there for the summer after the conference.
Last WWDC I attended, we had an unofficial man miles competition at a few of the evening parties. The winner for longest distance was a developer the central Siberia in Russia who flew three days to get to the conference. The winner for the shortest distance was a developer who lived in an apartment building right next to Moscone in San Franicisco. She literally just walked across the street and said it was the shortest commute she ever had.
Agree. If you cannot get a return on an investment from a minor $100 a year membership fee, get out. My CEO keeps on being amazed that iOS developer membership is just $100 a year. He'd gladly pay $100 a month just to get the support we receive.
Have you ever been? 1-on-1 time to discuss your problem that you are having with a specific API with the person who wrote it is invaluable. Look up the cost of 3rd party conferences for .Net or Java. You'll find that $1600 is cheap, and the presenters at those trainings aren't even the people who wrote the OS you are building for.
Then there was Blackbird that had it on a production PC. Those Compaq PCs were painted black for a reason.
I doubt it, hugely doubt it. Their new campus is going to hold offices. You can't empty out a section for a conference for a week. The issue isn't really space anyway, its people. They can only afford to bring in so many of their engineers to present, if they bring more people then no one is home at base in the event that something catastrophic happens and a huge fix is needed to be put together immediately.
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