Registration kiosks at WWDC 2005, held at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Worldwide Developers Conference, formerly Apple Developers Conference,[1][2] is an annual conference hosted by Apple Inc. for hardware and software developers of its products. Commonly abbreviated to WWDC and sometimes colloquially referred to as "Dub-Dub",[3] the event is held in Northern California, near Apple's U.S. headquarters.[4] Apple also uses the venue to introduce new technologies and preview upcoming versions of macOS, iOS, watchOS, and related products.
Attendance[]
A $1,599 ticket is required to enter the conference. Tickets are obtained through an online lottery. Scholarships are available for students and members of STEM organizations. Attendees must be 13 years or older and must be a member of an Apple Developer program.[5][6]
Until 2007, the number of attendees varied between 2,000 and 4,200; however, during WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs noted that there were more than 5,000 attendees. The WWDC events held from 2008 to 2015 were capped, and sold out at 5,000 attendees (5,200 including special attendees). WWDC 2018 had 6,000 attendees from 77 countries,[7] including 350 scholarship recipients.[8]
Format[]
WWDC 2003 - Steve Jobs introduces OS X Panther and the Power Mac G5
The conference is typically opened with a keynote. From 1998 to 2011, the keynote was presented by then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs. After Jobs passed away in 2011, current Apple CEO Tim Cook began to take Jobs' place of introducing the conference.
All attendees have to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that covers the sessions and other material handed out at WWDC. In the past, the keynote was also covered by the NDA, but Apple is now webcasting the keynote address to an audience much wider than just developers.
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the new 3rd generation Mac Pro at WWDC 2019.
Scope[]
WWDC originally was not a place for hardware announcements, but Apple deviated from that principle in 2002 when it announced the rack mounted server Xserve, and in 2003, with the consumer-oriented iSight.
In 2003 and 2004, the number of QuickTime sessions was increased, and the Apple Design Awards recognized exemplary QuickTime content. At the same time, more enterprise-oriented content was added, focusing on the Xserve and Mac OS X Server operating system.
History[]
Trivia[]
- Siri pronounces WWDC as "dub-dub-dee-see".[23]
- Starting with WWDC 2012, Apple changed the requirement of attendees being from 18 year old and older, to 13 years old and older.
- WWDC 2020 was the be the first to be hold solely in an online format without a live audience, due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus.[24]
References[]
- ↑ Apple T-shirts: A Yearbook of History at Apple Computer by Gordon Thygeson, p.5. Pomo Publishing. 1997.
- ↑ Video Prototypes: Creating Visions and Usage Scenarios in Software Design by Kellogg, Bellamy, and Van Deusen, Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction p.975. Elsevier Science. 1997.
- ↑ WWDC19 🤖: Best Dub-Dub ever! by Abram Situmorang , hmiftech, Medium. 2019-06-24.
- ↑ Apple's Developers Conference: Best, Worst, and Weirdest Moments by Dan Tynan, Yahoo Tech. 2015-06-05. Archived 2015-08-19.
- ↑ WWDC18 Registration and Attendance Policy. Apple Developer. Apple (2018). Retrieved on June 10, 2018.
- ↑ Scholarships. Apple Developer. Apple (2018). Retrieved on June 10, 2018.
- ↑ Hern, Alex (June 4, 2018). WWDC 2018 keynote: Apple to stop Facebook tracking on iOS 12 – as it happened. The Guardian. Retrieved on June 10, 2018.
- ↑ Dilger, Daniel Eran. "This third-year WWDC scholarship winner built an ML model to recognize beer in one day", AppleInsider, June 6, 2018. Retrieved on June 10, 2018.
- ↑ Apple’s Independent Software Developer's Conference by Don Norris, Apple Orchard p.10-11. 1983-10.
- ↑ ‘Apple II Forever’: Found photos offer early look at icons by Peter Hardlaub, San Francisco Chronicle. 2017-03-23. Archived 2017-03-23.
- ↑ Apple - The 1986 Apple World Conference, Computer History Museum. Accessed 2020-05-09.
- ↑ Events by Nancy Groth, InfoWorld. 1985-12-16.
- ↑ Apple debuts two "open" Macintoshes by Mary Petrosky, Network World. 1987-03-02.
- ↑ Tom Warrick. "AppleWorld '87—A Special Report: Part I", Washington Apple Pi, April 1987, p. 54.
- ↑ Beyond the Blue Horizon by Robert R. Wiggins, MacUser, p.45. 1987-08.
- ↑ Atkinson shows CD ROM Hypercard by Laurie Flynn, InfoWorld, p.89. 1988-05-02.
- ↑ Apple-DEC alliance haze lifting by Patricia Keefe, ComputerWorld, p.7. 1988-08-15.
- ↑ System 7.0 Software Is Change for Better by Don Crabb, InfoWorld, p.S19. 1989-08-07.
- ↑ Apple reveals lineup for its biggest-ever Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple Inc. 2020-06-11.
- ↑ Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format, Apple Inc. 2020-03-30.
- ↑ Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns in its all-online format, Apple Inc. 2022-04-05.
- ↑ WWDC 2023 Includes Special Event at Apple Park: How to Request to Attend by Joe Rossignol, MacRumors. 2023-03-29.
- ↑ TIL Siri pronounces "WWDC" as "dub-dub-dee-see" and will fill in "WWDC" if you pronounce it as such by u/PM_ME_YOUR_MASS, Reddit. 2017-04-27.
- ↑ Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 kicks off in June with an all-new online format, Apple Inc. 2020-03-13.
See also[]
External Links[]
- WWDC at Apple Developer
- WWDC20
- WWDC19
- Introducing the Apple Developer App (2019-11-18)
- Apple Events at Apple
- WWDC at ApfelWiki (German)
- WWDC roundup at MacRumors
- Apple WWDC Videos at YouTube
- Worldwide Developers Conference at Logopedia
- Worldwide Developers Conference at the Pippin @World & Atmark Wiki
- Worldwide Developers Conference at Wikimedia Commons
- Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Wikipedia
Articles[]
- The History Of WWDC: Apple’s Biggest Announcements by Alex Heath at Cult of Mac (2012-06-08)
- WWDC: Looking back at the past 10 years by Kelly Hodgkins at Engadget (2011-06-05)
- 10 Reasons Why You Should Care About WWDC by Bryan Wolfe at MakeUseOf (2017-05-25)
- A Brief History of Apple’s WWDC Keynotes, 1997-Present by Harry McCracken at Time (2012-06-11)
