WWDC: Culture Clash
June 13th, 2008 by ken
The introduction of the iPhone SDK has brought many fresh faces to WWDC. Specifically, developers who have been sent by their company to learn about the iPhone SDK are completely new to the Apple community.
It’s a little odd to look down the aisle at a session and see an uptight PC guy dutifully transcribing the presentation into his IBM Thinkpad. Meanwhile, Mac types on either side of him are busy in Xcode or Twitter on their sticker-covered MacBook Pros. For one thing, seeing a Windows laptop here is unprecedented. For another thing, us Mac guys traditionally don’t pay very close attention to the sessions. We’re too busy checking out the sample code or pinging friends using the hippest new methods.
I hope we see these guys again next year sporting MacBook Airs, and they’ll know to leave the necktie at home.
Peace.
