This WWDC is the most underwhelming one evah!!!! Seriously, though, I'm pretty excited. Each year is the worst ever-- kinda like SXSW these days-- to some peo

This WWDC is the most underwhelming one evah!!!! Seriously, though, I'm pretty excited. Each year is the worst ever-- kinda like SXSW these days-- to some people. I don't understand where they are coming from. Sure, some years are more fundamental than others... but Apple always has one great thing to announce. I happened to be there, and in the audience not too far from Steve when he came out and started speaking while a coffin rose up from beneath the stage. Then he opened the coffin and placed a Mac OS 9 box in the Coffin. It was wonderful. (And I was so happy because, unlike the 1980s, I was no longer interested in classic Mac OS.) My last regular WWDC was in 2003, and I remember being really impressed that they gave out Leather Jackets (thought that was probable 2001, now that I think about it.) Nothing like communing with the mac faithful once a year- back when being a mac developer meant having trouble finding jobs where you actually got to do mac development. Seriously, I got hired more than once to work on a mac product, only to be shifted over to windows soon after. Consequently, I just stopped learning windows so they wouldn't think I could do it and what I did know became out of date... so I ended up working on Linux instead! But Linux is fine by me. Once the videos started coming out regularly, it didn't make much sense to go to San Francisco for a week-- $1500 for the conference, $2,500 more all in for hotel and airfare and all that-- a $600 set of DVDs is a much better deal. But I did go back in 2008 so my partner (we started an iOS development shop) could get the experience and get a first hand education in the just released "iPhone SDK". One thing that's interesting-- there has been no real rumor about what's going to be released. I haven't a clue. And I love it. Apple's at their best when they surprise. The amount of surprise may not reach some people's expectations... But this day is more significant to me (as a graybeard adult) than christmas probably ever was. So, Happy WWDC Keynote Day! Rest in Peace, Steve!