WWDC Postpartum Depression

Was WWDC a success? Or a failure? Or both?

Michael Long
Mac O’Clock

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Image: Apple, Inc.

Another Apple World Wide Develop Conference is over.

We’ve had five intense days of keynotes and roadmaps, sessions, labs and lounges. Five days, during which we’ve been introduced to Apple’s latest operating system updates for iOS, iPad OS, macOS, and watchOS. We’ve seen new programing language and API changes and features, and Apple even announced new notebooks and the next generation of its M-Series chips.

Five days. So you’d think that we could now stop. Pause. Take a breath. And take the first few tentative steps towards recovering from that vast information onslaught…

But no. We can’t do that. There’s no time to do that.

Because now we’re faced with yet another onslaught. Another information overload. Another massive deluge of articles, podcasts, and YouTube videos, all about WWDC.

We’re about to get thousands upon thousands of articles attempting to explain what Apple did… or didn’t do. Podcasts discussing what Apple did right. Or what Apple did wrong. YouTube videos where people are smiling and ecstatic over the new hardware and chips… or grumbling and crying into their spilt milk over that very same hardware.

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Michael Long
Mac O’Clock

I write about Apple, Swift, and SwiftUI in particular, and technology in general. I'm also a Lead iOS Engineer at InRhythm, a modern digital consulting firm.