Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
The Worldwide Developers Conference ( German global developer conference, often abbreviated as WWDC ) is an annual Apple conference held in California, which is aimed primarily at software developers for Mac OS X and iOS. In contrast, the Macworld aimed at end users. The conference begins with a keynote that Apple uses often present to future products, then there will be lectures and workshops.
While the first WWDC 1983 still held in Monterey, the venue is now the Moscone Center in San Francisco. All participants must sign a confidentiality agreement (English non-disclosure agreement NDA). This was previously also for the keynote that Apple has, however, transferred in some years also live on the web, and now also provides a few hours later on its website as video streaming.
History
Places and dates of the WWDCs
WWDC 2001
About 4000 visitors. Leather jackets with a big blue " X " on the back were distributed to the introduction of Mac OS X to developers.
WWDC 2003
Approximately 2990 visitors. Introduction of the Power Mac G5 and a preview of Mac OS X 10.3 " Panther". The visitors were given an iSight webcam paid.
Stage Guest:
- Dr. John E. Kelly III. , IBM
- Greg Gilley, Adobe Systems
- Theo Gray, Wolfram Research
- Gerhard Lengeling, Emagic
- Brad Peebler, Luxology
WWDC 2004
Approximately 3,500 developers attended. There were new Cinema Displays in 20 " -, 23" - presented and 30 "widescreen. There was a preview of Mac OS X 10.4 " Tiger". All visitors were given a developer version of Tiger, a simple T -shirt with the Apple logo on the front and " WWDC 2004" on the back, a backpack, in the fits a 17 " PowerBook, and a copy of Apple Remote Desktop 2.0.
Stage Guest:
- Bob Bennett, alias
- Karen Conroe, Ubisoft
- Daniel Haver, Native Instruments
- Aran Anderson, Analytic System Design
WWDC 2005
3800 developers from 45 countries participated. There were 110 "lab sessions", 95 lectures and more than 500 Apple developers were on site.
The largest part of the event dealt with Apple's transition to Intel processors and the x86 platform. There were several developers on the stage, which described their experiences with the conversion of their software or announced the expansion of its programs to Intel compatibility. Among the speakers was Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel.
Stage Guest:
- Theo Gray, Wolfram Research
- Roz Ho, Microsoft
- Chizen, Adobe Systems
- Paul Otellini, Intel
WWDC 2006
4200 developers from 48 countries attended the event, which made it the largest ever WWDC. There were 140 presentations and 100 "hands-on labs " for developers. Over 1,000 Apple developers were on site.
As part of the keynote, the Mac Pro was announced as the successor to the Power Mac G5, and introduced new Xserve. Thus, the last remaining PowerPC -based Macs were switched to Intel processors. In addition, for the first time Mac OS X 10.5 " Leopard" was demonstrated and announced for the spring of 2007. In addition to the new Leopard features a larger edition of Mac OS X Server product was announced. Some of the new features: a simplified installation process " iCal Server" ( based on the CalDAV standard), " Apple team," a web-based collection of cooperating services, Spotlight Server and Podcast Producer.
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WWDC 2007
The WWDC 2007 was more than 5000 visitors, the biggest in Apple's history. The number of members of the Apple Developer Connection rose compared to last year by about 200,000 to more than 950,000. There were 159 sessions, 95 hands-on labs, and there were 1200 Apple developer site.
In the keynote first new games from Electronic Arts, and a new game development technology from id Software have been announced for the Mac platform. Then ten key features of Mac OS X Leopard were shown. All developers were given, as announced in advance, be given a free copy of the new beta version.
As a "one more thing ... " Steve Jobs announced that the new version 3.0 of Apple's Safari web browser is being ported to Windows. A beta version for Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista was a little later available for download.
As " One last thing ... " a disputed prior opportunity was presented, as developers can develop their own software for appearing in the U.S. on 29 June iPhone. These applications should be written as web applications with standardized techniques such as Ajax and integrate seamlessly with the iPhone features. Scott Forstall showed some demo applications.
Stage Guest:
- Paul Otellini, Intel
- Bing Gordon, Electronic Arts
- John Carmack, id Software
WWDC 2008
The WWDC 2008 was held from June 9 to 13 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. For the first time a WWDC was "sold out" in advance.
In the keynote, the iPhone 3G, iPhone OS 2.0, and the service were introduced MobileMe, which replaced the. Mac service.
Following the keynote was followed by a lecture on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
WWDC 2009
The WWDC 2009 took place from June 8 to 12 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. For the second time in a row it was already sold out before the start of this year, even before the end of the early bird discount.
Core theme of the conference was for iPhone developers released version 3.0 of the iPhone SDK and Mac developers the full 64 -bit architecture, the extended support in the development of computers with multiple processor cores, the use of the graphics processor in applications, and the new version of Quicktime. Phillip Schiller introduced Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the new iPhone 3GS, updated the MacBook Air and the MacBook or MacBook Pro product lines.
WWDC 2010
The 21 WWDC was from 7 to 11 June 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In the keynote, the new iPhone 4 and the new operating system version iOS 4 were presented and Safari 5. In addition, the new features FaceTime and iMovie were added for the new device. According to Apple at WWDC 2010 was attended by more than 5,200 developers, journalists and other visitors from 57 countries.
WWDC 2011
The 22 WWDC held from 6 to 10 June 2011 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In the keynote were, inter alia, Mac OS X 10.7, iOS 5 and iCloud unveiled. The WWDC 2011 was sold in less than 10 hours. It took, according to Apple again more than 5200 visitors in part.
WWDC 2012
The WWDC 23 was from 11 to 15 June 2012 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. She was booked out within two hours. In the keynote were, inter alia, Presented OS X 10.8, iOS 6, and the new MacBook Air and the new MacBook Pro with Retina display.
WWDC 2013
The 24th WWDC place on 10 to June 14, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Tickets for the event cost 1599 U.S. dollars and were within 71 seconds of stock. In the keynote, the new MacBook Air and the new Mac Pro were among other iOS 7, OS X Mavericks presented. The originating from 66 different countries, participants of the conference were to kick off the event, a soft shell jacket with a large embroidered 13 on the back and embroidered year of the event in the Roman numeral font ( MMXIII ).