If Apple is trying to hit 18+ months between OS releases, what use is there in having a conference every year? They used to do that and that meant every other conference was a re-hash of what you already knew. Complete waste of money. I stopped going because of that.
Why does everything have to be a conspiracy against Mac development? Dave On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Patrick wrote: > That could be a possibility, but a 1 year alternating schedule is too (in my > opinion) long of a time. By the time WWDC 2011 hits, we'll probably be > speculating on iPad 2.0 and iPhone 4.5 or whatever...no one would really give > a crap about 10.7 at that point. Unless of course it's just truly amazing in > some kind of way. > > --- In [email protected], Dave Camp <d...@...> wrote: >> >> On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Patrick wrote: >> >>> Just wondering what everyone thinks about this? If you haven't heard yet, >>> WWDC 2010 will only consider iPhone/iPad apps for the ADA awards. >>> >>> To me this kind of enforces the notion that Apple doesn't too much give a >>> crap about the Mac development platform any longer. Tthe iPhone and iPad >>> are closed environments where Apple has total control, compared to the >>> desktop where it's totally open and I think Apple is liking the >>> uber-control right now. >>> >>> What do you guys think? And is this going to change your focus in anyway? >> >> Or, it could just be that Apple is moving to an alternating iPhone and Mac >> OS X WWDC schedule. That would make sense for many reasons: >> >> - Lots of new iPhone stuff announced this year >> - Gives them more time to work on 10.7 >> - Reduces pressure at the conference. >> - Apple has been trying to increase the time between Mac OS X releases. >> >> As someone who does both iPhone and Mac work, last years conference was >> really hard to get the most out of due to overlapping Mac and iPhone >> sessions. If they went to an alternating schedule I think both iPhone and >> Mac devs would get more useful sessions out of each conference. >> >> Dave
