| Several time WWDC attendee here. - Complete access to Apple engineers, who will be blunt with you and share details that are otherwise not public. I worked on a couple things with engineers from the labs, and it was refreshing to get answers like "Yep, this is a serious bug, but it touches too many things in the system, so we'll fix it in the next major release." Also, it's interesting to get to see what the engineers see on any given radar ticket I filed. Whereas several looked dormant on my end, a couple had rather heated discussions. - Networking/rubbing shoulders with great developers from the community. - You get information about upcoming features in upcoming products. Sure, places like Ars Technica or the Verge will cover some of the sexier things lightly, but there's still plenty of in-depth technical stuff that aren't understandable by your average tech journalist. Some of the early Grand Central Dispatch and ZFS comes to mind. Those presentations were essentially given in ObjC, so if you weren't familiar with ObjC, you couldnt really get the point of what they were about. |