2. Is it time for Apple to consider a format to allow more people to attend? Their platform has grown 10x in 5 years, but the conference is still in the same facility.
I hope not. Currently, the presentations are done by Apple engineers -- who then typically go and spend the rest of the week in lab sessions to have one on one's with people.
If more presentations are needed, either the lab quality will go down (which is very bad as labs are the best part of WWDC) or the presentation quality will go down because they will no longer be given by the engineers that created the tech behind the presentations.
There's also the immense amount of time that is spent by presenters beforehand in preparing for a session. If you think that Steve Jobs is the only one at Apple who spend hours and hours perfecting his WWDC presentation, you'd be very wrong.
I hope not. Currently, the presentations are done by Apple engineers -- who then typically go and spend the rest of the week in lab sessions to have one on one's with people.
If more presentations are needed, either the lab quality will go down (which is very bad as labs are the best part of WWDC) or the presentation quality will go down because they will no longer be given by the engineers that created the tech behind the presentations.
There's also the immense amount of time that is spent by presenters beforehand in preparing for a session. If you think that Steve Jobs is the only one at Apple who spend hours and hours perfecting his WWDC presentation, you'd be very wrong.