Event Coverage

From Moscone Center - Apple WWDC 2009

By Kenny Yeo & Sutlej Soin - 9 Jun 2009

Welcome to WWDC 2009

It's WWDC 2009!!!

It's the time of the year again when thousands of tech-hungry Apple fanboys gather at the heart of San Francisco, and millions of other geeks stay rooted in front of their computers lapping up news about the latest Apple developments the moment the stories hit the tech blog sites. Yes, the Apple worldwide Developers Conference is alive and well, and this year's show had loads to offer when it came to the latest cutting-edge technologies. While rumors about an Apple netbook and tablet PC did not come true, what was present at the show includes a spanking new iPhone (well, sort of), upgrades to the Macbook Pro family, and of course, the much anticipated Snow Leopard operating system.

Sorely missing at the show was the God of Apple Gizmos himself, Steve Jobs. Though Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, did a good job in delivering the keynote speeches, we couldn't help but notice that he lacked the spark and charisma that Jobs was so well-known for. But the show must goes on and that it did as you will find out in the following pages.

Let the show begin at WWDC 2009! Last year's show saw the rebirth of the iPhone OS as well as developments on the App Store front. Held at the Moscone Centre at San Francisco, this year's event has been cited as having one of the most exciting announcements to date.

Like a scene from a Queen concert, the long unwinding queues stretched across the length of the Moscone Centre, as journalists, developers and Apple fans jostle their way into the venue. No other tech vendor can proclaim that they have such hardcore fans, we gather.

And we're in... After much anticipation, the doors to the event were finally lifted, and it's time to start whipping out the cameras to snap up pictures of Phil Schiller himself.

Hey look, it's that guy from the Mac advertisements! Clearly, this is looking like a mainstay at each Apple event and it won't be the same if there were no digs at their main rival, Microsoft. The event kick started with a tongue-in-cheek advertisement targeted at, well, making Windows' operating systems look like well, less than decent.

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