First
of all, there are a lot of people here. Last night, my buddy told me
that I might want to line up early; otherwise, I might have ended up in
the overflow room.
And my
Mozilla colleagues, Emily Toop and Darrin Henin, wanted to hook up
early. So I set out to Moscone West and arrived at 6:30. I initially
went to the back of the line. It went north on 4th, all of the way west
on Minna, back South on 5th, and then almost completing the circle
halfway back up Howard.
Fortunately, the other Mozillians found some of
their friends who work at Facebook, and got us a place at the front of
the line. Hooray.
They let us
into the building at 8. We went up the escalators, and then walked all
of the way around the second floor, where we waited in the (hot,
crowded) hallway for another hour.
At
nine, they let us crowd around the base of the escalator to the 3rd
floor. We were there for about half an hour when we were finally let
into the main hall.
The keynote itself was a little
disappointing. New versions of OS X and iOS with some whizzy features.
My favorite was the multiapp features in iPad; looking forward to
playing with those. My single favorite announcement was that Swift is
now going to be Open Source and run on Linux. They then talked about
watchOS, which I currently have no interest in.
And
then they wasted 45 minutes with the Apple Music announcement. OK, I
can stream all of Apple's catalog. But I have to either stream or play
my library? Wasn't clear. And the performance did nothing for me.
So. OS X El Capitain and iOS 9: Yay. Looks good. Carry on.
watchOS: Cool, I guess.
MUSIC: meh.
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