WWDC 2013 – June 10-14

[gdubs]

Well, the rule of needing to have a dev account prior to this morning's announcement may help some of us get tickets, but it's gonna be a little nuts. I like the idea that was floated on twitter: give us a simple coding quiz. A 'Captcha' for Objective-C developers. Adding to that, make the test graded. The better you do, the bigger the pool of available tickets for your percentile.

[tolmasky]

Or solve the actual problem by divorcing the media event from the developer conference, thus removing the ridiculous incentive for everyone and their mother to get a ticket for 2 hours worth of content and denying the rest of the week to people who could actually benefit from the sessions.

[ebbv]

Except that the answer(s) would quickly get spread around over social media and the quiz would lose all meaning.

[michael_miller]

The most experienced people won't necessarily derive the most value from WWDC. My personal experience is that each time I've gone to WWDC, I've learned less. There's a fixed amount of new tech that's created each year, and a large amount in the past. Newbies have ~6 years of material to learn (since iPhone), whereas veterans only have 1 year to catch up on.

[threeseed]

The most interesting part of WWDC is going to be seeing whether the SDKs for iOS and OSX unify.

If developers can have one code base and deploy to all the Apple products (AppleTV, Mac, iPad, iPhone) it could be a real game changer for the whole industry i.e. the first multi-device platform war. I assume MS is thinking the same way (XBox, Windows, Windows Phone) with their recent moves as well as Ubuntu.

[e1ven]

For application logic, I agree that unification is key, but for UI/display code, this would be a disaster.

MS/Win8 has shown how frustrated people get when you try to force a common UI - It's been generally regarded as a clusterfuck.

Instead, decouple your display code from your app logic, and build related, but distinct displays for each application.

[pseudometa]

The corner radius of the logo closely matches that of the current Apple TV product. Perhaps an Apple TV SDK will be announced.

[grinich]

Seriously? Using a rounded rectangle is fodder for product speculation?

It's a goddamn curve.

[uptown]

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am PDT.

Nice to see they learned from last year's timing.

[laveur]

Agreed... Last year the company paid for my ticket this year I don't think the new place I am working can afford it. Hard to decide if I should get a ticket anyways.

[supercoder]

Yeah, that part has thankfully been well organised.

[maguay]

So, what do you make of the new logo, beyond a new typeface and flat, stacked colors in a vaguely rounded square shape?

[supercoder]

Suggests an iWatch at $199 released July 24th, an Apple TV (two sizes) at $699 later in the year and a brand new Mac Pro. Oh and completely flat design of iOS.

[smspence]

I wouldn't read too much into it.

Check out the design of last year's invite: http://macosrumors.com/2012/04/25/apple-wwdc-2012-june/

Very colorful, many different colors of rounded squares, in many different sizes.

Everyone thought the design and colors of the invite was some kind of hint at a new product. There was a lot of speculation that we would be seeing iPhones in different colors (besides black and white). There was speculation that this would hint at some kind of new design trend for iOS, some people thought it had something to do with a TV, etc. And we have seen how that turned out....

[threeseed]

I am guessing a bold, colourful change to the UI for both iOS/OSX. Something like this:

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/calendar...

Given that Ive is now in charge of UX as well he will want/need to differentiate himself from Forstall. And iOS/OSX are definitely due for a major overhaul.

[div]

The shape resembles current app icons. Might refer to a flat iOS 7 design.

[diroussel]

It's nice. Colourful. Hard to read much into it though.

[culshaw]

Pretty sure its a nod back to the old apple colours? http://edibleapple.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/apple_rain...

[pseudometa]

The corner radius is too big for app icons... though it does resemble the corner radius of the Apple TV. Perhaps an Apple TV SDK?

[Geee]

It looks like a stack of app icons. There's color and there's transparency. I'd think it hints at new looks of iOS.

[publicfig]

Multi-color iPhone 6/5S is my guess.

[BillySquid]

Something about AppleTV

[ceeK]

It's nice that Apple offer scholarships for students wishing to attend, but it's unfortunate that they don't cover travel expenses. I would really like to apply to attend, but living in the UK and not having enough funds to travel such a large distance is preventing me.

Guess I'll have to wait!

[chrislloyd]

I was fortunate enough to get two student scholarships to WWDC through the Apple University Consortium[1]. Unfortunately the AUC is no longer subsidized by Apple and doesn't issue scholarships. Both trips were life-changing. 2010 convinced me that I had to live in SF so I finished my degree to be eligible for a visa. In 2011 Dave (my now co-founder who was writing iPad games) and I hashed out what later became Minefold.

Do whatever you can to go. If you need a place to stay I've got a free couch.

[1]: http://auc.edu.au

[bitcartel]

If Apple wanted to, they could offer free tickets to everybody.

For example, 5,000 tickets at $1,599 each is just under $8 million, which is a drop in the ocean when you consider Apple has around $145 billion in cash.

While shareholders are rewarded with dividends and share buybacks for taking on risk, developers have to pay to take on the risk of building Mac/iOS apps.

$8 million represents %0.000055172 of Apple's cash. That looks to me like a pretty cheap way to throw a party for developers and celebrate all that they've done over the years.

[orta]

I went in 2007 as a (UK) Student and I'd really recommend trying to find a way to do it. It becomes prohibitory expensive once you're not a student.

[bnycum]

I got the scholarship in 2007 and 2008, it was a great experience. In 2007 they had a deal with a nearby hotel, maybe Pickwick? I don't think they did in 2008. I'd try to beg, borrow, and steal to get there if I were you for the experience.

[fnayr]

Great now all of us that were prepared with notifications this time cause we were burned last year are going to probably miss out again.

[kunai]

The logo looks awful and very un-Apple-like.

[playhard]

What is their ticket cancellation policy?

[supercoder]

Non refundable, non transferrable AFAIK.

[mayoff]

Sold out in three minutes.

[BigBalli]

2 weeks in 2010 (my first time) 2 days in 2011 2 hours in 2012

let's break the record and make it 2min in 2013 :)

[dannowatts]

ready and primed to purchase my ticket very soon!