Apple’s WWDC 2020 will be an online-only conference.
There is no doubt the coronavirus helped make this decision, but due to other factors, it has been a long time coming.
Comment: The conference has expensive, both for the developer to attend (hotel, travel, tickets) as well as for Apple to product (100s of employees working weeks to prepare). 10x as many developers wanted to show up, as opposed to the limited tickets available. The lottery was always a pain, with it's uncertainty. And finally, with the videos available within hours of the talks, some of us had questioned if to was worth going. This quick release of the talks online has proven that format work. I will miss the gathering, and the energy one generated by being there, but when I was asked last year by my boss if my attending was needed, and I said "No". The only exceptional benefit in going in person happened if you had a project with a problem (UI, Tech, Design), you could talk to some experts at the workshops. But even that has become hit and miss. So, WWDC will continue, but not as it was.
Trivia: Apple's first developer conference was not WWDC. Just before the release of the Mac, Apple had a small (I think about 40 people) conference for PRODOS development (Apple // and Apple ///)! Yes, I attended.
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