wwdc

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....

This year’s WWDC was supposed to be a sparse in terms of new announcements (if the rumors were to be believed) due to Apple changing up the feature set of their major releases due to the poor reception of iOS 11 and macOS 10.13. In fact, iOS 11 has an atypical distribution share compared to iOS 9 and 10 when they were a year old (low 80s instead of high 90s)....

Apple’s annual developer conference is being held in San Jose this year from June 4th to June 8th and expectations are high this year due to the atypical lack of polish that plagued iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra after launch in September of last year. Of particular interest (to me at least) is whether or not this year will be a scaled back event or a normal one. I bring this up since 1) Apple supposedly made adjustments to their software development process and 2) iMessage in iCloud and AirPlay 2 have yet to launch, but were announced at WWDC last year....