Ruminate #19

Follow Up

  • have you found the easter egg? I have not.

Topic 1 - WWDC Without a Ticket

  • John doesn’t get a ticket - sad trombone
  • As far as I can tell 90+% of tickets go out all at once
  • a few are held back and/or come back from credit card rejections
  • those don’t all seem to go out randomly, though I’m not sure of this.
  • What does WWDC look like for you without a ticket?
  • Layers
  • AltConf
  • parties
  • get together with Apple people
  • lunches with friends
  • keynote viewing 
  • At Twitter the last couple years
  • Release Notes did the state of the unions too
  • What will be different this year
  • working for MacStories
  • not sure what that will entail yet because we have coverage outside SF for that week
  • will be interviewing developers for our Telegram channel and perhaps the site
  • with more live streamed sessions, probably will watch more sessions
  • Maybes:
  • Layers
  • Present an AltConf talk
  • I’ll have a couple of Ruminate stickers with me, come get one

Topic 2 - Apple Watch

  • Do you use it every day?
  • John: yes
  • What do you use it for?
  • John:
  • notifications
  • fitness tracking
  • alarms and timers

Topic 3 - iOS Keyboards

  • Do you use them?
  • Some I’ve tried recently
  • Microsoft Hub
  • Microsoft Word Flow
  • Emojinn

Topic 4: Federico’s iOS 10 Wish List

  • Why the video worked
  • foundation in reality and experience
  • what the lead up to that was like