Apple’s WWDC 2020 to be held online due to coronavirus
In late February, Microsoft, Google and Facebook — all tech companies announced to conduct their conferences virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. The tech giant “Apple” recently announced on 13th March that its annual developers' conference WWDC would be held as one of its kind — “an online-only event”.
Technology sessions and conferences of such kind are a great way to connect millions of developers around the world. WWDC also draws in thousands of analysts, developers, and reviewers to its annual conference. The event is typically conducted in San Jose, California with a mass gathering of approximately 5000. This year, however, Apple decides to take it to an entirely new experience due to the ongoing COVID-19. The company declares to share the details of the virtual gathering in the coming weeks.
The event will preview the future of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, and developers’ beta releases in this online event of WWDC. At WWDC, we anticipate that Apple should reveal its cutting edge operating systems: iOS 14, watchOS 7, macOS 10.16, tvOS 14 and that’s probably only the tip of the iceberg. So, the event is preferably significant to attend if you are from developers or journalists fraternity; so that you can decide with respect to the smart switch of your devices for the year to come.
Apple Vice President Phil Schiller for Worldwide Marketing announced in a recent press release: “We are delivering WWDC 2020 this June in an innovative way to millions of developers around the world, bringing the entire developer community together with a new experience.”
Craig Federighi, Apple SVP Software Engineering, teases the event: “With all of the new products and technologies we’ve been working on, WWDC 2020 is going to be big.”
He further states that “I look forward to our developers getting their hands on the new code and interacting in entirely new ways with the Apple engineers building the technologies and frameworks that will shape the future across all Apple platforms.”
Apple also said it will contribute $1 million to the local San Jose organizations to help counterbalance the revenue hit to the city from the recent announcement of WWDC being held online.
How precisely each big tech giant has shifted their conferences/events to virtual ones due to the coronavirus outbreak, is calculated. The concerns are immense and such large gatherings must be avoided amidst the fears of coronavirus.
