Clearly, your only experience with WWDC was the keynote. If you had bothered to look into anything else about the conference, you would know that the entire res

Clearly, your only experience with WWDC was the keynote. If you had bothered to look into anything else about the conference, you would know that the entire rest of the week is filled with tech talks about relevant technologies (both newly announced and pre-existing) and labs staffed by every breed of Apple engineer. What I'm trying to say is that WWDC has not been overrun by "non-developers." The keynote is the only part of the event open to the press, and they exploit it as much as they can, but the rest of the conference really is devoted to working with useful, relevant technology. This is not to say that WWDC is better or worse than I/O, just that bloggers have not hijacked the event from real developers.