- Monday, June 6th
23:52 PDT - Tosj | This morning we are awake just after the alarm clock rings. It will be THE day of the keynote. THe only thin in the rumors is the Intel rumor, so we will se if there is more and/or something completely different. Just after 8 we get our croissants as before and walk to an already quite filled Moscone Center. We can immediately progress to level 2, meaning that we are later than last year... We get a blue card on the way up, which we don't know what it is for. And indeed, we cue close to the escalators, but then in a line that has already gone round the center once! But no problem, we know there will be enough space for everyone. We have to wait another one and a half hours before the keynote, so we meet other people including Phillip, Serge and some Australian guys Simon Whitty and Robert Byrne, the latter two we have had almost regular contact with via iChat the last few months about the WWDC.
We get informed that there will be exciting announcements made during the keynote, so that is even more thrilling. Around 9:45 we are allowed to move to the highest level and enter the presidio for the keynote. The keynote itself was quite short and besides the already known facts of the next iTunes version, there is hardly any news besides THE news that THE rumor is true. The complete room is almost silent, instead of the otherwise quite cheering crowd. After the Keynote there is quite a lot time left for lunch and discussion, so we use it for both things. In that time we also meet Peter Schols from BioCocoa and the guys from the coding monkeys.
During the Mac OS X state of the union we do find out that we won't really have a lot of time for bug fixing our programs. Alex thought that the WWDC might be a good opportunity to ask the experts from Apple to help with fixing bugs that originated in Tiger. But as we find out now, most time they want us to spend is on universalizing those same applications to PowerPC and Intel ready programs. That would be a pity, because it would have been a nice opportunity to get our applications working well again on 10.4...
After the last state of the union, we ran into the WWDC reception with enough food and drinks. We also met Simon and Robert there again, now accompanied by even more Australians... We had some good laughs and drinks and eventually decided to go sit aside with the BioCocoa team to have a look at the presentation for wednesday. On a silent place we sat down and found out that the Design Awards and Stump the Experts sessions were shifted to wednesday! So to the evening that we hoped to get some people listening to our presentation of BioCocoa. So we decided to ask for a change in the presentation schedule so we can start half an hour earlier at 6.30 p.m. instead of at 7. Then we might be able to finish the presentation on time for the Awards and Experts sessions that we want to attend ourselves too. After that we had a discussion about the set-up of the presentation and a preliminary discussion on the road ahead.