Apple's WWDC Stays Online-Only, Kicking Off June 7

Apple this morning announced that it will be returning to an all-virtual format for a second year. The company went online-only for the first time in 2020, as Covid-19 ground in-person events to a halt. From a report: While vaccine rollouts have begun in much of the world, the return of the in-person event industry still seems iffy for most of the rest of the year. The event will run June 7-11. "We are working to make WWDC21 our biggest and best yet, and are excited to offer Apple developers new tools to support them as they create apps that change the way we live, work, and play," Developer Relations VP Susan Prescott said in a release tied to the news. The virtual format certainly has its advantage -- accessibility being at the top of the list. Apple said last year's was its "biggest ever," and expects roughly 28 million developers from around the world at this one. In addition to not having to deal with traveling -- not to mention the South Bay hotel crunch -- the company offers up free access to the event for all qualified developers.

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28 million developers

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How many of those 28 million can write a line of code?

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[Chris Mattern]

Code is for squares, man. All the cool kids write computer programs in emojis!

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[backslashdot]

Haha .. I wonder if someone has actually made such a thing -- an emoji based turning complete programming language. Yeah I could have googled it before asking .. but then I might have nothing to spur discussion.

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[Chris Mattern]

It's been done several times, in fact. As far as I can tell, at least some of these are actually serious. We are all doomed.

The day Intel macs get discontinued

[xack]

PowerPC macs got discontinued at wwdc 2006, so according to the same schedule Intel ones will be as well. This will make hackintoshing the only way to get Intel macs in the future.

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[DontBeAMoran]

Until the day macOS no longer supports x86, which is probably about five years after the official discontinuation of the Intel Macs.

Nope next year

[SuperKendall]

PowerPC macs got discontinued at wwdc 2006, so according to the same schedule Intel ones will be as well.

Not sure what timeline you are working off of but earlier Apple will discontinue all Intel Macs is next year, not this one. That's according to what Apple has said where it will be a number of years before all the lines are converted... this year will be the high-end Macbook Pros, and maybe a mid-tower, next year (probably) will be the Mac Pro.

Then of course, the intel Macs will still receive updates fo

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[tw2k]

Not sure of the exact timelines but their point is basically that last time Apple set (low) expectations but delivered the transition way ahead of schedule. Not so sure they will repeat it this time around though given the relatively limited number of lines that have transitioned until this point.

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[SuperKendall]

I see, that does make some sense then... but I feel like Apple is being more cautious this transition, plus wants to have something absolutely banging for the Mac Pro model. That seems like it would take another year or two, and some of that could be informed but how the higher end laptops fare.

WWDC?

[rossdee]

World War District of Columbia ?

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[DontBeAMoran]

World Wide Direct Current, obviously.

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[martynhare]

World Wide Domination Company

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[Chris Mattern]

DC101, bringing the nation's capital the best in alternative rock!