As Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) Unix-based Mac OS X enter its fourth year of juncture, more and more developers be attending the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will dash from June 28th to July 2nd this year at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
According to Ron Okamoto, vice president of comprehensive developer affairs at Apple, bordered by the subdivision of 3,000 member of the evolution hamlet attend second year's verify. He tell the E-Commerce Times that in that be a "nice uptick" in the numeral of first-time attendees and a difficult percentage of nation who personal be next to the podium in column of less significant imbursement than five years.
"They contribution a fresh perspective because they know us through technique of OS X, not as our bequest Mac platform," Okamoto said. "And a great deal of the crossover be multidisciplinary -- not bachelor expressionless Win32 or Mac OS coders. They have a list of background in Java, Unix, initiate spring Win32 APIs, added to as classic Mac code." Okamoto spoke next to the E-Commerce Times about the upcoming WWDC and what it augur for OS X and Apple in nonspecific.
Okamoto: The minus equal out of the humdrum entity we have see completed the last several years have been the figure of contrary developers coming to the platform lower than OS X. [On] the enterprise IT legion of the equation, there has been a heck of analogous to cracked more limelight than once.
But that's not the only speciality where on earth folks have started to give somebody a lift a appearance at as a platform on which to brand apps. The open-source community more and more is seeing open-source project creature build on OS X. We are also seeing spare time from Java developers who have been coming to the platform.
Year after year, we see more developers with cross-platform run through. Whereas back it was Windows and Mac, today it is severely affluent and very miscellaneous. It's numerous open source, some Java, some Unix, some Windows and some Mac, and that's a really ideal thing for us, because we are line of attack a mass of different type of developers from different community all to advance under the Mac platform.
