Once again, I’m headed to WWDC
After Apple announced two weeks ago that Leopard would be delayed until October, I was disappointed, like almost everyone else. I expected to be able to play with the new APIs in June, as promised. Even though I had much fun last year at WWDC, I had decided not to attend this year. I thought that it would be much cheaper to read the online documentation published by Apple, which I expected to become available in the same timeframe.
The fact that Apple’s WWDC will now happen well before the actual OS launch suddenly makes the event much more interesting to me. The Leopard innovations track seems specially interesting for developers who want a small head start.
Last year, WWDC was really only about discovering the future of the Macintosh platform. The Leopard preview distributed to developers was much too far from completed to be any useful. This year’s WWDC, with a feature complete OS, should be all about how to use the new APIs in existing or new applications. To me, that is a very compelling value proposition.
So, just when it looked like I would miss this year’s WWDC, I changed my mind. Once again, I’m headed to San Francisco. See you there.