Perfect material in the line-up for the week of developer sessions which is more often than not the only time in the year where you can hear it directly from Apple employees.Īpple used to announce hardware at WWDC all the time in the past. New hardware invariably means new software features which means new APIs. In my personal opinion, WWDC is the absolute best time of the year for Apple to announce new hardware. It would be very strange if this 10 year anniversary wasn’t acknowledged in the keynote and at least some kind of thing isn’t announced to commemorate it. It’s been 10 years now, and Apple has already issued a press release earlier in the year marking that event, so they’re clearly both very aware and very excited of the fact. While the features announced then seem mundane by today’s standards, it was absolute magic at a time when the concept of browsing full web pages on a mobile device seemed like the dream of a crazed madman. That entire keynote has gone down in history as a crossroad of when an entirely new industry was established. It’s now been 10 years since good ol’ Steve got up on stage, announced the iPhone, and then trolled the world with a picture with a rotary dial superglued to an iPod. 10 YearsĢ017 is a particularly important year. Here’s my take on how I think WWDC is going to pan out this year.
What should us actual developers expect? What about all the extra work it will produce for us? What kinds of loops will we be thrown through, or unexpected features treated to? I spend a lot of time on the internet, and I read a lot of the rumor sites on what awesomeness Apple is planning to sprinkle on us, but most of them are aimed at consumer fanboys. And invariably, depending on how much new work the announcements create for us developers, there will most definitely be a lot of profanity.
It’s a time of meeting old friends, making new friends, and generally having a great time while celebrating the platforms we work with every day.
Developers from around the world will descend on California with fevered excitement in anticipation on what new shiny awesomeness awaits. Oh boy oh boy! Only one week until Christmas in June! That magical week where Apple will momentarily emerge from the shadows, dump a hilariously massive pile of software on all of us, and then immediately disappear once more!
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