Apple today announced 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. The company also announced the Swift Student Challenge, an opportunity for student developers to showcase their love of coding by creating their own Swift playground. Now in its 31st year, WWDC20 will be an opportunity for millions of creative and innovative developers around the world to get early access to the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, and to learn from Apple engineers as they work to build app experiences that enrich the lives of Apple customers around the globe.
Most people expected WWDC to take place later in the month of June now that the conference isn’t beholden to a physical venue, and now that is confirmed. Though Apple didn’t officially announce a date for the keynote, it would be sound reasoning to guess 10 AM PST on June 22.
For folks like myself who watch the WWDC proceedings from afar, the online version of WWDC won’t be much different from previous years. With that said, it will be strange to go through a WWDC cycle without the traditional side events such as The Talk Show, Accidental Tech Podcast, and Connected live shows.
Michael Miller 