Sitting in a hotel, downtown San Fran., after day one of Apple's WWDC 2008, where some news were announced today.
I guess, when it comes to evaluating today's day, it all depends on where you stay and what your focus is. If you were looking for a 2nd generation iPhone, then maybe the announced, $199 8GB iPhone 2.0 was the most important news of the day. However, I don't think you will saving any money. ATT is subsidizing the iPhone even more now, but will also raise your monthly fees to $79 per month.
Since this is a developers conference, the most important news, those that will show there full impact only many months from now, may be hidden in some API that's not covered by most news portals and syndicators.
On the iPhone side, Apple gave in to developers' requests for background processes. There will now be a global event queue that applications on the iPhone can subscribe to, to receive events form the service providing server. An application that wants to push an event notification to client application running (or currently being suspend) on an iPhone needs to send the notification to a server that is hosted by Apple. The iPhone keeps a constant connection to that server and will eventually receive the custom notification and dispatch it to the application.
Moreover,
David Duncan Davidson and girlfriend
Pinar were roaming the conference rooms, shooting photos left and right. I cannot wait to see their photos on Flickr.
Al Gore was in the audience during the Steve Note and also,
Aaron Hillegass, author of
'Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X' was in the audience, as was Google's Java Guru Joshua Bloch.
