WWDC rant!
This is a rant, if you’re an Apple fanboy please stop reading :)
WWDC stands for World Wide Developer Conference, but after seeing the video podcast, I want to say, are those(the people that went to that conference) really developers?
I want to point out a couple things of the people that went there: 03f195d7a8d7440c099e3382f5e5ad0a
Its funny I saw in Twitter guys saying that the WWDC is the Super Bowl of developers… ORLY? if you want to go to a real developers conference then go to GUADEC or ApacheCon or Any of Microsoft conferences.
AppStore
Jobs described this ripoff as a innovative solution to every developer, the second coming of Christ without any doubt, I have some words for you Jobs… A P T and Add/Remove applications in Ubuntu | GNOME.
Cons about background running applications
*sigh*, ok, meanwhile I agree that running apps in background can be evil, I can see some controversy(they run their platform in background, and some apps too like Music(or Ipod, don’t know what the name is)).
I have to say it, OS X does this all the time! it runs a crappy file browser in background all the time, and all applications you close, guess what, they go as a background process too. So this guy is full of bullshit, and what Apple wants is you not running a server in your iPhone that runs a DAAP share so every user can download your fully DRM music :)
And off course this means, no Mono, no Firefox, no Java… and so on!, and this lead me to my next point.
We are releasing this SDK we use to develop all the built-in applications in the iPhone, so you can develop the same apps
BullllSSSSHHhh… then I gonna write a Download manager… you can?, or a Amazon MP3 downloader that copy your music to your library, can you do this? hell no!.
Jobs explaining how fast is 3G
This is a developers conference, you have to say that? I mean, don’t you guys think that we KNOW THIS FACT? I mean, tell me that is fast, if Jobs develop this 3G thingy, but the thing is more than 100 year old.
Things missing
Even though I consider the iPhone platform very buggy(Safari crashes and the music app does not play some of my songs). There was announcements on how many bugs were fixed, and|or improvements of the things that we use every day. Again, was this a developers conference? ORLY?
And, since this was a non-developers presentation(or conference) what about the At&t contract? price information?
Conclusions
About the conference IMHO this is not for developers, and I don’t know why this “developers” where so happy of being there.
I have to say, I’m sold, I’m going to buy this new update(since I own a iPod touch… I really dislike phones), and I might be developing apps for that platform, I believe is great to bring this to the mobile platform, BUT, is not innovative and is not perfect and Jobs is WRONG so WRONG!.