Coffee & Cocoa hot bits and bytes

The descriptions for most of the WWDC sessions are online since a couple of weeks. The calendar has a lot of slots called “Session to be announced” of course. This slots will get their title right after the keynote.

Today I took some time to make my preliminary schedule. When I checked out the sessions and the empty slots I thought about what could be extracted from that information.

So here are my - most speculative - results.

Statistics

• Total number of sessions: 144
• Total number of undefined sessions: 50 (~ 34%)
• Number of undefined sessions that will be in Presidio (biggest room): 7 (14% of undefined ones)
• Number of undefined sessions:
  • Tuesday: 17
  • Wednesday: 9
  • Thursday: 13
  • Friday (half day): 11
• The words Finder and Front Row are not mentioned in the session descriptions
• The word Windows is mentioned two times (Network File Systems and Bonjour)

Sessions that were held in 2005 but similar is missing until now:

• What’s New with File System
• Uniform Type Identifiers and Launch Services

Some Interpretation

There are plenty of sessions about Graphics and Quicktime, so I don’t expect big news there. While there were 3 sessions about widgets back in 2005 there is only one mentioned for this year.

There is only one session that mentions Spotlight. I’ll expect that there will be a lot more about Spotlight. Perhaps the extension of Spotlight to the network. Unfortunately that could kill my product Searchlight ;-(.

Based on the fact that the biggest room (Presidio) is reserved for the first two sessions on tuesday I would expect some new thing that has an impact on the majority of the developers. When I remember it right the last years session was about Xcode 2.1 (making universal binaries).

This years friday seems to be a half day. I like that. The day after the campus bash felt a little bit lame :). But it is strange that there are 11 undefined sessions for this half day (out of 24).

Based on the existing session descriptions I assume that Steve will not talk about a switch to Windows. Please no bad surprises this year, Steve.

There is a WWDC 2006 Countdown Widget that shows how long we have to wait for more details.

Now it says 18 days left…

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