Random Notes From WWDC
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Every time I see a T-shirt, I want one! The Hydra people have cool Hydra shirts. I’ve seen Slava wearing a striking Unsanity shirt. The Panic people have their shirts (although those are already old hat, since I have one of my own from MacWorld). And when I met Corey from the IconFactory, he was wearing a very handsome light grey number with their distinctive “factory” logo. Everyone wears Apple apparel here at WWDC, so in my opinion it gives one a lot more “cred” to be sporting an indie developer shirt!
(Update: I forgot to mention that people from the Australian Apple contingent are all wearing these cool Matrix-themed shirts. They say “WWDC” in the Matrix font on the front, and have the outline of Australia highlighted in a stream of Matrix digits on the back. I’ll try to snap a pic if I see another one…)
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The Apple Design Awards were a lot of fun, and many deserving developers were recognized. Hydra and Transmit are both, in my opinion, apps the exemplify what the Design Awards should be all about. My only complaint, personally, is that Transmit should have been the winner in its category—not runner up.
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I was going to leave during the QuickTime portion of the Design Awards, but I’m glad I stayed, since they turned out to be a lot of fun! Frank Casanova, Apple’s head of QuickTime marketing, is a hoot—he reminds me a lot of a college art professor (and I mean that in a good way!).
It was really cool the way the crowd demanded to see the entire BMW film that won the top prize—that must have been a cool thing for the winners!
Oh, and, as it happened, the QuickTime part of the show had a brilliant finish: the QuickTime player (running on the preview Panther build) crashed with a “QuickTime quit unexpectedly” error! That got quite a laugh from the audience (not a derisive one, though—we’re all developers here, after all!).