wwdc

Unlike last year’s WWDC where the development was interrupted by the pandemic, this year’s development was done entirely during the pandemic, so it should be interesting to see whether or not things are going to be scaled down. Well, the production of the conference will not be scaled down as Apple has demonstrated that they will spare no expense for their virtual events over the past year. tvOS Since the new Apple TV remote does not have the hardware for gaming, I’m not sure if there is going to be an Apple Arcade push for the TV this year....

The developer community was interested to see how a remote WWDC would go and I think the general consensus is that this is how the conference should go from now on. By having the session be prerecorded, they are much more polished and the transcripts and sample code are available the same day. This has also allowed for sessions that don’t have to be 50 minutes in length, allowing for some quick videos on best practices or updates on smaller frameworks (very helpful)....

Even with a pandemic, the yearly major release cycle must continue. This year Apple is building upon their Catalyst project, Swift UI, Combine, and iPadOS. There is also a chance that ARM-based Macs make an appearance (or at least the transition is announced) and the announcement of a unified service bundle (Music, News, Arcade, and TV). tvOS With Apple Arcade, Apple is still pushing the gaming aspect of the iPhone, iPad, and TV....

Oh boy, this year sure was chock full of stuff. At WWDC, Apple revealed their plans for a unified development platform, elevated their newer platforms to first class status, and revealed some long overdue hardware. Putting all of that together, there was a lot to unpack and even more to learn with the announcement of SwiftUI, Catalyst, Combine, and a slew of other new frameworks (most being Swift only). tvOS tvOS isn’t useless anymore with the announcement that tvOS 13 will add support for Xbox One and PS4 game controllers....

It’s that time of year again where Apple developers make the migration to San Jose to find out what changes are coming to the Apple platforms this fall. This year is supposed to be one of the biggest years for Apple due to large architectural projects coming to fruition with the Marzipan SDK releasing to developers (and maybe a hint of ARM based Macs). Additionally, it is looking very likely that iTunes is going away in favor of separate applications....