This year’s WWDC sold out in a record eight days to over 5,000 developers.
The five-day event running from June 7 to June 11, is focused on providing advanced content for skilled developers across five key technology tracks: Application Frameworks; Internet & Web; Graphics & Media; Developer Tools; and Core OS. Apple engineers will deliver over 100 solutions-oriented technical sessions and labs. WWDC 2010 gives an incredibly diverse community the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow iPhone, iPad and Mac developers from around the world.
Source: Apple Inc.
MacDailyNews Note: According to Twitter user Bryan Webster, on Saturday he asked Steve Jobs via email, “Are google taking the piss? I hope you have some good WDDC announcements to blow them out of the water?” Steve Jobs replied, “You won’t be disappointed.”
It’s official: MS “Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers” Banners out, Google “Mountain View, Photocopiers on OT!” Banners in!
Meh… don’t sound so great. Apple will come up with something better…
Or add your Google Banner and what it should say…
Shame I can’t make it. 🙁 … again!
I hope Steve takes spells it out to G**gle and Ad*be and who ever else who needs a good slap’n.
Steve Jobs? Why not that Vietnamese blogger?
@ Gomer37
Google just bought him…
Really liking new design. Tired of plasticy rounded look. Hopefully they have new colors like the Cult of Mac post with colored front faces.
Day one upgrade fo me.
I keep reading what he wrote to Steve: “Are google taking the piss?”
What does that mean? Was it a typo?
“Are google taking the piss.”
Yes, that’s what I would ask the CEO of the most innovative company of the world.
A form of Mocking. Used mostly in the UK.
I hope Steve does not result to name calling and being crass like Google was. Hopefully, he will take some time to “educate” his opponents about ‘open/closed’ though. I’m growing very tired of this argument.
Can’t wait for 4.0! Here’s to having a great WWDC!
I hear Steve will mention the Mac once or twice as well.
Are you taking the piss, is usualy followed by a Liverpool kiss.
“Are google taking the piss.” they most certainly are.
@Lotus Eleven
I agree … I was just being flippent above.
Give me a Verizon announcement and I’ll wet myself with excitement (or have ATT announce improved coverage in my area so I can finally join the iPhone party).
I’ll take either!
‘Taking the piss’ literally means that someone will sink so low as to take EVEN your piss from you. In other words they would leave you with nothing, no matter how little use it is to them.
UK English: “Taking the piss” = “Being rude / insolent”. Usually in the form of an aggressive question: “Are you taking the piss, or what?” I think it the same in AUS/NZ.
Also used in the form, “To take the piss out of someone / something”: “Are you trying to take the piss out of me?”
cf “Pissed” = “Annoyed/angry” (US) and “Pissed” = “Drunk” (UK), but “Pissed off” = “”annoyed/angry” (in both US and UK English).
I have only known Steve to take an onstage potshot at a specific competitor once, being the response to Dell’s SIAGTMBTTI remark.
I think we’ve got a turbocharged, 4G, Apple-chip, iPhone in CDMA or GSM, adding Verizon at least. Everyone else: you are skating to where the puck was.
Immediately after taking the piss with Google, Adobe and Microsoft, SJ should follow up with a good bitch slapping of them all, which the insolent bastards genuinely deserve.
Better be something revolutionary. And, I don’t mean the false claim marketing ploy – no, really revolutionary.
I think Steve is going to promote the guy who lost the phone and give him a special job in security. Seriously…it would show his humor, and grasp of how to forgive and be huge news in one fell swoop.
As for Google…they are still sort of a “Frenemy” and as such he will carefully skewer them. Like Microsoft Google does not really understand elegance….(despite the primary search interface)…
Look at the layout for Gmail if you doubt that. It’s NOT elegant.
Google is and was and will be an engineering company with a lot of algorithms and enough cash to keep throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks. In the end the inelegant Google Wave, and other efforts to socialize email, the cloud and more will be subsumed into simpler, better and more “Apple” like solutions.
I just hope Apple doesn’t sink to the levels that Google did at their recent Apple hate-fest.
They seemed to be very defensive, probably because Android is mainly based on Apple’s ideas.
Anyway, I hope SJ shows more class than this, although I always enjoyed the snide passing comments about Microsoft’s incompetence.
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But I guess Microsoft are no longer the main enemy
Sort of off topic….
MS cap 234 Billion
Apple cap 227 Billion
Only 7 Billion difference. WOW
Just a thought,
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In polite circles, “Extracting the urine.”
Same history all over.
Mac innovation, all software developed for Mac…. then copied by sleeze crooks to a pathetic imitation of the original.
IPhone all over again.
I won’t use a Hemroid phone if it was made of pure gold.
Well, for me, there are only two things I need for me to get a new iPhone. The multitasking, speed boosts, etc are all fine, but that’s just the gravy.
For features, I want wireless sync. That’s it.
Now, the other thing. I need my iPhone to be able to make and receive calls. Pretty simple concept. I live in a burb near Phx. 0 bars ALL the time and I have a ATT tower 1.2 miles from my house. The phone is literally dead whenever I’m in my neighborhood. When I travel in the city I get 3-5 bars, but drop calls at least 50% of the time.
Apple REALLY needs to open up to other carriers.
I want a phone that ‘just works’.
If they don’t open it up, I don’t know what I’ll do. Won’t go to Android or RIM. Probably end up with a generic Nokia flip phone.
Please fix this Apple! I love my phone but feel like I can’t justify it any longer if it doesn’t work.
@ElderNorm Holy molly!
MW: down, as in M$ is even more down than NASDAQ!
I assume MDN & the other usual suspects will be live-blogging said keynote…I’ll be camped out on my iMac with multiple tabs in Safari to keep track of all the action! (I’ll tell my mother-in-law I have an “important meeting…)