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It was awfully quiet over there! Glad to see some in person things coming back around though I wonder what capacity looks like compared to San Jose.
by elpakal 5y ago
It was awfully quiet over there! Glad to see some in person things coming back around though I wonder what capacity looks like compared to San Jose.
- ghaff 5y agoI'm seeing this pattern play out in a few places in the late spring. A mostly online event with a fairly small-scale, maybe invite-only, in-person component.
- akmarinov 5y agoScrewing over the international community, as is tradition within Apple.
- ericlewis 5y ago…and everyone else who doesn’t live in Cupertino. Or maybe they’re just having a thing at their home and if you’re international and want to come and can afford it then do so.
- ghaff 5y agoA lot of companies have found that, while online participation is mostly watching video, far more can participate to at least that degree than ever could when a lot of these expensive, popular events were in-person only--with maybe a streaming keynote.
- shamiln 5y agoI was at the last WWDC in person in 2019, and well, the collective gasp at the price of the Pro Display XDR stand was quite a participation!
- unmole 5y agoYou do realise that you lose absolutely nothing of value by not watching it live, right?
- akmarinov 5y agoYeah but Apple has offices and employees all over the world - why limit these kinds of get togethers to just Cupertino?
- ghaff 5y agoI assume that Apple does have small-scale events for developers of various types though I don't know for a fact as I don't develop for mobile. But putting on full-blown events like WWDC is enormously expensive both in direct dollars and, probably more importantly, people's time. Some big US companies do hold their big user shows (which serve a somewhat different purpose and audience anyway) in both the US and Europe but most just do US only.