Apple is trying a whole new way of running its Worldwide Developers Conference, but its purpose is the same. Here’s how that impacts what we will — and won’t — see.
WWDC 2020 is surely going to be the best-attended of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conferences, even as no one turns up. By moving the entire event online for the first time, Apple is adapting to the coronavirus lockdown, but what it’s changing is just the method of delivery.
This remains the closest Apple can get to a regular event during the current situation, and it’s also the company’s first attempt to make a big presentation this year.
This WWDC has exactly the same aims as all of them, and that means we know certain things. We know for certain that it will run from Monday June 22 to Friday June 26, for instance, and that all of it is to be online.
Rather than being at the San Jose Convention Center as it was in 2019, this one will take place online and perhaps predominantly via Apple’s Developer app. Doubtlessly there will be wider distribution, though, and especially so for the opening keynote presentation.
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