Apple's 2020 WWDC, Swift Student Challenge start online on June 22

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in General Discussion edited June 2020
On Tuesday, Apple announced that it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference virtually, beginning June 22, in the Apple Developer app and on the Apple Developer website for free for all developers.




Apple is encouraging developers to download the Apple Developer app where additional WWDC20 program information will be promulgated in June. Information available includes the keynote stream, Platforms State of the Union details, session and lab schedules, and more. Information will also be made available on the Apple Developer website and by email.

"WWDC20 will be our biggest yet, bringing together our global developer community of more than 23 million in an unprecedented way for a week in June to learn about the future of Apple platforms," said Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller. "We can't wait to meet online in June with the global developer community and share with them all of the new tools we've been working on to help them create even more incredible apps and services. We look forward to sharing more details about WWDC20 with everyone as we get closer to this exciting event."

Beyond just the WWDC date, Apple also announced the Swift Student Challenge. The Swift Student Challenge is "an opportunity for student developers to showcase their love of coding by creating their own Swift playground" according to Apple. Winners will receive a WWDC20 jacket and pin set.

"Students are an integral part of the Apple developer community, and last year WWDC saw attendance from more than 350 student developers spanning 37 different countries," said Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi. "As we look forward to WWDC20, although our gathering will be virtual this year, we want to recognize and celebrate the creative contributions of our young developers from around the world. We can't wait to see this next generation of innovative thinkers turn their ideas into a reality through the Swift Student Challenge."

The move takes place after Apple made it clear that the WWDC was going to be an online event on March 26 due to lockdowns caused by the coronavirus. It is Apple's latest scheduled WWDC since 2006, when it was held in early August.

Apple says that there are more than 23 million registered developers in 175 countries and regions, with more than half a billion people visiting the App Store every week. Additionally, Apple also says that it will provide $1 million to local San Jose organizations to offset revenue loss from the shift to the online-only event.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 10
    macxpressmacxpress Posts: 5,930member
    This will be interesting...maybe this will happen more often going forward. I wonder what they will do for a keynote address?
  • Reply 2 of 10
    ElCapitanElCapitan Posts: 372member
    Is it symptomatic that the Developer App is not available for macOS at all – currently the only platform that can run the developer tools; Xcode?
  • Reply 3 of 10
    hmlongcohmlongco Posts: 570member
    But... but... if it's online only how will I get my swag???
    dewme
  • Reply 4 of 10
    macxpressmacxpress Posts: 5,930member
    hmlongco said:
    But... but... if it's online only how will I get my swag???
    Simple...you don't! 
  • Reply 5 of 10
    dr. xdr. x Posts: 282member
    I wonder why it's so late this year? Last year was June 3-7.


  • Reply 6 of 10
    JinTechJinTech Posts: 1,057member
    dr. x said:
    I wonder why it's so late this year? Last year was June 3-7.


    Probably to build and test the infrastructure it's going to take to host the possibility of 20 million plus people on their servers. Things like this require a shit ton of bandwidth.
    doozydozen
  • Reply 7 of 10
    JinTechJinTech Posts: 1,057member

    macxpress said:
    This will be interesting...maybe this will happen more often going forward. I wonder what they will do for a keynote address?
    I imagine it will be staged just like every year, this time, just with a streaming audience instead of a live one.
  • Reply 8 of 10
    dr. xdr. x Posts: 282member
    JinTech said:
    dr. x said:
    I wonder why it's so late this year? Last year was June 3-7.


    Probably to build and test the infrastructure it's going to take to host the possibility of 20 million plus people on their servers. Things like this require a shit ton of bandwidth.

    Good point, I hope their servers will be able to handle that much bandwidth. I'm sure they'll use a CDN to help with the load.
    JinTech
  • Reply 9 of 10
    JinTechJinTech Posts: 1,057member
    dr. x said:
    JinTech said:
    dr. x said:
    I wonder why it's so late this year? Last year was June 3-7.


    Probably to build and test the infrastructure it's going to take to host the possibility of 20 million plus people on their servers. Things like this require a shit ton of bandwidth.

    Good point, I hope their servers will be able to handle that much bandwidth. I'm sure they'll use a CDN to help with the load.
    Absolutely. Massive backend development I'm sure, and knowing Apple, the site will have absolute spit and polish.
  • Reply 10 of 10
    JinTech said:
    dr. x said:
    I wonder why it's so late this year? Last year was June 3-7.


    Probably to build and test the infrastructure it's going to take to host the possibility of 20 million plus people on their servers. Things like this require a shit ton of bandwidth.
    Is that a metric shit ton? Or an imperial shit ton?  
    /jk 
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