The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference), called WWDC, is a conference held annually in California by Apple that Apple uses primarily to present its programs and new technologies to developers, as well as providing hands-on labs and sessions with Apple developers. . The first conference was in 1983 and continued to this year annually. The number of attendees usually ranges between 2000 to 4200 for developers, but during WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs indicated that there were more than 5000 attendees. Since 2008-2011, the official attendance was 5200, including the private attendance.

Now let us list the most important products that Apple presented at every conference since 1995

In the 1995 session of the conference

  • A product called Opendoc It is a platform for creating tasks and usable components within unified standards. This project failed and was canceled in 2005

In the 1996 session of the conference

  • Copeland OS project was introduced copland The developer reported the Mac system and new features, but the project also failed after a short time.

In the 1997 session of the conference

  • It was the first conference held after Apple's purchase of a company NeXT Founded by Steve Jobs before, and the programming environment was introduced OpenStep To be the basis for a Mac OS environment. Also, a new operating system called Rhapsody Which later became known as MAC OS X Server

In the 1998 session of the conference

  • In the announcement of a major event represented by technology Carbon It is a programming interface for the Mac system in which it constituted a revolutionary change in terms of programming and creating its applications with new and different features.
  • Also, at this conference, the invited software model was announced Quartz To create XNUMXD graphics on the Mac environment.
  • In the same year, Steve Jobs appeared for the first time after assuming the presidency of Apple again, and he announced the iMac iMac And device PowerBook G3

In the 1999 session of the conference:

  • That year, the primary kernel of the Mac operating system, Darwin, was announced Darwin
  • Stability on technology has also been announced OpenGL As a software interface for XNUMXD graphics.
  • The OpenStep API has also been renamed to the current Cocoa
  • Also, Steve Jobs announced a new series of devices called iBook But it did not last and was later replaced by MacBook.
  • Steve also announced two new technologies, QuickTime TV and AirPort For wireless communication service.
  • 2563 people attended this conference.

In the 2000 session of the conference

  • This conference was attended by 3600 people, at which Steve Jobs first announced the operating system Mac OS X

In the 2001 session of the conference

  • 4000 developers attended this conference and the first version of the system was presented Mac OS X Server With WebObjects 5
  • In the same year Steve Jobs brought out to the world for the first time the revolutionary music device the iPod iPod

In the 2002 session of the conference

  • The new version of Mac OS X v.10.2 and QuickTime 6 was introduced, and the old operating system No. 9 was also abandoned

In the 2003 session of the conference

  • This conference witnessed a real leap for Apple in various fields where the new device was shown power mac g5 And distributing a copy of the new system OS X Panther (10.3) and also announcing the new software package iApps that included iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD The Rendezvous Service, later known as Hello Attendees received copies of the webcam iSight
  • In the same year Steve Jobs announced the new software environment Xcode

In the 2004 session of the conference

  • And which was attended by 3500 developers, an increase of 17% over the previous year, in which wide Mac screens of 23 and 30 inches were introduced, in which iTunes 4.9 was presented as the first version integrated with the podcast, and Jobs reviewed it himself.
  • In it, a copy of the new system, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4, was also reviewed, which the attendees received a copy of the two versions, along with other gifts.

In the 2005 conference session

  • This conference was attended by 3800 developers from 45 different countries, and the most prominent announcements were Apple's intention to move its devices to Intel architecture x86 processors.
  • In this conference, there were 110 lab sessions and 95 presentation sessions, in the presence of more than 500 Apple engineers.
  • In the same year Steve Jobs introduced the Mac Mini Mac Mini And iPod nano iPod Nano

In the 2006 conference session

  • In this conference was presented for the first time the Mac Pro Mac Pro As an alternative to its predecessor, the Power Mac, and the latter in the PowerPC architecture, from which Apple moved to the Intel architecture.
  • An update has also been announced for Apple's servers Xserve.
  • The new system was introduced Mac OS Leopard with many new features and massive improvement.
  • This conference was attended by 4200 people from 48 different countries, and there were 140 sessions and more than 100 labs accompanied by more than 1000 Apple engineers.

in 2007 conference session

  • It is the acclaimed conference and year which marked a major turning point in Apple’s history when Steve Jobs presented for the first time a new and revolutionary generation of smartphones completely different from before which is the iPhone device by announcing a launch date and later in the year he announced the launch of Apple TV
  • He also announced at this conference about the Safari browser for Windows and the iPhone.
  • A beta version of Mac OS v10.5 Leopard has also been announced
  • More than five thousand developers attended this conference

In the 2008 conference session

  • And in it, the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch, and the final version of the iPhone development kit, were announced iPhone SDK As well as the new version of the iPhone 3G phone, globally this time.
  • As well as the announcement of the second version of the iPhone operating system, and a service MobileMe And about the new system Mac OS
  • In the same year, Steve Jobs announced the new device MacBook Air
  • It was at this conference that it was announced that tickets had been sold out for the first time.

In the 2009 conference session

  • Announced in this session about the third version of the iPhone operating system iPhone OS 3.0 The new operating system was shown Mac OS Also, a new update has been announced for MacBook Pro devices, in addition to a new device that joins them.
  • The new iPhone 3GS has also been introduced
  • At this conference, Steve Jobs for the first time missed the keynote speech due to his illness.
  • But he returned later in the same year to present a new family of iPods, represented by the third generation of the iPod touch, the fifth generation of the iPod nano, and the multicolored iPod Sheffles.

In the 2010 conference session


  • The announcement of the iPhone 4 and the change of the name of the operating system from iPhone OS to iOS
  • Also, the FaceTime feature was introduced for the first time
  • Also introducing iMovie for iPhone
  • Introducing and using the Apple A4 processor in the iPhone 4
In the 2011 session of the conference
  • The number of attendees reached more than 5000 people, the price of official tickets was $ 1599, and the gray market was $ 3500.
  • This conference is Steve Jobs' last appearance and he hasn't spoken most of the time.
  • Announcing the iOS 5 system with features and it has several advantages, including: Cloud - iMessage - Notification Center - Twitter Support - Newsstand - and more.
  • Apple announced the popular Mac OS 10.7, which is known as Lion.
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