This is my last day at WWDC, I’ll be away from the conference tomorrow for a little drive. The conference has been an odd one. The keynote was incredibly short (just one hour) but of course how could you top the Intel announcement with anything. I am quite surprised about the reaction of the attendees concerning the Intel switch. Most people seem very upbeat about it. Which is a good sign – because the move could easily have alienated the developers.
The new attendees intranet with the schedule planner is definitely a step in the right direction. Of course it isn’t quite perfect yet.
The sessions have mostly been a repeat of last year with a few oddball sessions thrown in. There is a definitely a bigger focus on enterprise and IT – something I saw happening last year too. From a personal perspective I’m not keen on this change of focus – but it is understandable. The new hands-on sessions seem to be pretty good but it is not always worth going to the normal sessions and hands-on sessions for the same subject – there is a lot of duplication of information.
For me this has probably been the most social WWDC to date. I’ve met a lot of new and interesting people and lot of the famous “names” from the Mac blogging and development communities. The Mac bloggers dinner on Monday night was fantastic and Buzz did a wonderful job organising it – when I come back next year I hope he arranges its sequel.