April 2020 • Macworld 67When you attend WWDC in person, you
can make valuable connections with
Apple engineers and other developers
San Jose, maybe it could be used in other ways to
facilitate the roll-out of new technologies and help
developers who can’t attend pricey conferences get
the most out of Apple’s stuff.Everything else changes
WWDC has become the main event on the Apple
community’s calendar, a social gathering that
includes live podcasts, adjunct conferences and
much more. It will be a shame if we lose all that.
And I’m not sure anything can replace it. Instead,
WWDC will go from feeling like a week-long
gathering of a community to feeling like... another
Apple media event. The podcasts you listen to will
cover it, but from afar. The parties won’t happen.