By Mike Morton, Google Mac Team Every year, Google engineer Mike Morton becomes intrepid reporter Mike Morton as he ventures to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple doesn't allow attendees to disclose the technical bits of the conference, so he writes about other important observations and juicy details: how the crowd behaves, interesting sights and sounds, and (as always with Mike) fun with anagrams. Here's part 1 of his two-part report on WWDC 2008. If I’d thought about it, I would have realized ahead of time that this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference would be different. Since last year’s gathering of the faithful, Apple has begun to allow developers to write their own products for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and that means a new crop of developers coming to learn about a new machine, Apple’s smallest yet. I’m used to seeing an unusual number of Apple T-shirts in airports while traveling to WWDC, but it seemed like there were more this year. And when I accidentally opened my laptop with the WiFi still on, it found three computer-to-computer wireless networks on my flight to SFO. I didn’t think much of all this until I looked up the aisle of the plane. Three rows up on the other side of the aisle, some guy had his laptop open. At a glance, I could see he was using Interface Builder, one of the tools developers use to build software for both Mac and iPhone. Then he picked up a book on introductory Cocoa programming, and ...
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By Mike Morton, Google Mac Team Every year, Google engineer Mike Morton becomes intrepid reporter Mike Morton as he ventures to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple doesn't allow attendees to disclose the technical bits of the conference, so he writes about other important observations and juicy details: how the crowd behaves, interesting sights and sounds, and (as always with Mike) fun with anagrams. Here's part 1 of his two-part report on WWDC 2008. If I’d thought about it, I would have realized ahead of time that this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference would be different. Since last year’s gathering of the faithful, Apple has begun to allow developers to write their own products for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and that means a new crop of developers coming to learn about a new machine, Apple’s smallest yet. I’m used to seeing an unusual number of Apple T-shirts in airports while traveling to WWDC, but it seemed like there were more this year. And when I accidentally opened my laptop with the WiFi still on, it found three computer-to-computer wireless networks on my flight to SFO. I didn’t think much of all this until I looked up the aisle of the plane. Three rows up on the other side of the aisle, some guy had his laptop open. At a glance, I could see he was using Interface Builder, one of the tools developers use to build software for both Mac and iPhone. Then he picked up a book on introductory Cocoa programming, and ...