WWDC!
Application developers swarm to iPhone
San Jose Mercury News provides a wrap-up of last weeks WWDC and taste of what we can expect from Apple’s App Store come July 11th:
“I’m seeing an excitement among mobile developers that I’ve never seen before,” said Sam Altman, chief executive and co-founder of Mountain View-based Loopt, a location-based social networking service. “People who said they’d never start a mobile (applications) company because they didn’t want to rely on the carriers are now starting companies focused only on the iPhone.”
as well as these interesting metrics…
M:Metrics, a mobile research firm, reported in spring that 31 percent of iPhone owners watched mobile TV or video vs. a mere 4.6 percent market average. Fifty percent of iPhone users also reported using their gadget to access a social-networking site, about 12 times more than the industry average.
I’m headed back to Seattle after a very sunny and very inspirational week at Apple’s WWDC.
A few months ago I made the decision to turn down paying speaking gigs in London and Berlin to pay to come to WWDC. I have absolutely no regrets about that decision.
I firmly believe that I witnessed the birth of the next evolution of both the web and mobile this week. I was amazed that it has only been a year since the iPhone was introduced. My hats are off to the Apple engineer’s that crammed about three years of feature and product enhancements into less than 12 months.
Unfortunately the details of WWDC, with the exception of the keynote, are confidential. Apple doesn’t allow attendees to share session details. But I can tell you that most of what I’ve learned is already out there you just need to dig a little.
I’m leaving amazed and inspired about the potential of both the web and mobile mediums to evolve into something entirely new.
What would OmniGraffle do?
The front of the WWDC line
Garrett’s Two Hour Hairdo
WWDC keynote line
Line to WWDC Keynote: Wraps around the block.
WWDC Banners
WWDC line moving inside
Live WWDC 2008 Updates
I will doing live WWDC Keynote updates again this year. The Keynote starts at 10 AM Pacific.
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