and Europe but is headquartered in Prague, and on Monday is holding its first WWDC watch party at 7 p.m. Anxious developers gather at their offices, homes, and bars, in groups small and large, and await news that will result in either ambitious excitement or beer-laced disappointment. Thankfully, in 2012, Apple finally started livestreaming the event (and we all got to start making the same joke about using Safari), and because of that, tech’s version of an NFL draft viewing party was born: The WWDC Livestream Watch Party. “Unfortunately this year we were not able to secure tickets, not because of the price, but the registration system that worked on a lottery basis,” STRV event manager Teresa Caklova told me in an email. (If you thought AirBnbs and Uber surge pricing was already expensive in San Francisco …) It’s a huge ask for any app developer pining to go, but an even bigger one for firms not located in the Bay Area. This year, entry costs $1,599, and there’s a capped amount - in order to even buy a ticket, you had to enter a lottery. The App Store and iOS created a new global economy, one that developers around the world totally depend on, and so naturally WWDC became A Big Deal to people around the world. ![]() I don’t know how that happened!”Īpple then wasn’t Apple now, of course, weathering many well-documented management battles, redefining its product line, and becoming the mega hardware and mobile company it is today. The 1997 keynote started with a dad joke: “Good morning. Sure, there’s a clapping (laughing, even!) audience, but there are no flashy graphics, bass-thumping tracks, or surprise celebrity presenters. It was first held in 1983, and a quick YouTube stroll through WWDCs of years past reveals how truly uncool it was. Before there were surprise performances or highly produced video montages, WWDC was a much simpler thing. ![]() Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) wasn’t always a three-ring circus.
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