How Apple Can Save WWDC 2020 from (Coronavirus / COVID-19)
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English - March 11, 2020 16:41 - 12 minutes - 12.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsTechnology News Tech News applewatch mac apple homepod ipad iphone Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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GDC, the game developer’s conference, is canceled. Facebook’s F8 conference is canceled. Geneva Auto Show, canceled. South-by-south west, canceled. Several U.S. states have declared emergencies. Italy is on lockdown. Santa Clara County, Silicon Valley, has effectively issued a short-term ban on events.
Now, Apple doesn’t typically pre-announce anything. Not products. Not events. But, that Apple will hold a worldwide developers conference — WWDC — the first week of June each year, every year, was one of the safest bets in tech today. Until today.
So, if COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, prevents Apple’s from holding it’s annual macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and now iPadOS, event, what could the company possibly do instead?
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