Meh, I had some more thoughts, mostly along the non-technical line... - Google I/O is only two days long while WWDC is five days long, which makes the price a

Meh, I had some more thoughts, mostly along the non-technical line... - Google I/O is only two days long while WWDC is five days long, which makes the price a bit more comparable. - Apple worked with Duarte and got all their speakers to rehearse in excess to get the presentations polished as much as possible before the event - what you saw on the public keynote with Zynga's CEO babbling about Farmville was amateur hour. All the speakers may have been nervous at some point or another about speaking to so many people, but they knew their stuff and pulled it off. While a lot of conferences do similar things, occasionally when it's a more laid-back or shorter event, they skimp so much here that it hurts. Nothing spoils a presentation more than an unprepared speaker with crazy slides to me. For one extreme example (to me), I went to an Amazon event local to me after WWDC last year, and saw this atrocious presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-startup-event-la-2009-last-legion-games http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-startup-even... (slide #4 is particularly bad). I'm sure it was pretty easy to guess how far my jaw fell going from a week long professional polished-to-an-extreme event where every single presentation used the same syntax highlighting, to that, where the person couldn't even get the bullet points to match in size or shape on a single slide. - Partnerships? To do what? Any partner that would have participated in something like that at WWDC should it exist had employees there to go to the conference that could promote their products or whatever with people they meet over the course of a week. - While WWDC this year had a noticeable lack of Mac-specific sessions, they had plenty foundational sessions for all platforms, and a LOT of talk about Safari and then the developer tools, which are clearly not only for iOS development, so there's no excuse for combining Xcode and iOS 4 together. Not to mention that 10.7 is probably not ready to even be previewed, so what else would Apple have presented there? - The OP totally just doesn't even mention anything about the existence of Office Hours and Labs at I/O and WWDC respectively, which to many were the most valuable part of the conferences...I know people who didn't even bother to go to more than a couple sessions throughout the entire week at WWDC, they just permanently parked themselves in the labs on the first floor. (The labs/office hours being the places/times you could go and chat one-on-one with the people behind whatever you wanted help with or just wanted to talk about.)