If that title is too long for you, Apple’s developer conference is more often known as:
WWDC
Once the domain of geeky programmers, systems analysts, security gurus, and hardware engineers, the WWDC has grown into a world-wide event, with programmers and developers and news reporters and average Janes and Joes attending at massively attended events in the San Francisco Bay area.
This year, like 2020, WWDC will be a virtual event, broadcast from a variety of locations, mostly in and around the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA. You can attend the event by either logging into the apple developer site (if you are a developer), or the Apple website at:
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/
Or, if you have an Apple TV, use that to display the keynotes and sessions on your flat-screen TV. (If you still have a tube TV, it probably won’t work).
What to expect:
- A look at forthcoming iOS and iPadOS advances;
- A look at forthcoming Apple Watch advances;
- A look at forthcoming Apple TV advances (maybe?);
- A look at the next version of the macOS operating system;
- Possibly a hardware surprise, such as a more powerful MacBook, a bigger iMac, an iPad that doubles as a drone, computerized coffee cups that are inexplicably called “CoffeePods,” a flying Apple Car that doubles as a riding mower — who knows?
The keynote begins at 10 am Pacific Time on Monday, June 7. While there is almost no chance the keynote will put you to sleep, you have the option of playing Keynote Bingo to keep you alert:
https://keynotebingo.github.io/
There is a non-trivial chance we will talk about the WWDC at the next Strait-Mac meeting on June 15.