Apple stated on Tuesday it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in an online-only format for the second yr in a row. The occasion will happen from June 7 to June 11, as COVID-19 instances rise in the United States. WWDC21 is anticipated to supply perception into the way forward for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
The iPhone maker’s WWDC occasion, normally held in San Jose, California, US with greater than 5,000 folks attending, was moved utterly on-line for the first time in June final yr resulting from the coronavirus outbreak.
Apple stated the occasion will probably be streamed without cost once more on its developer app or web site. “We are working to make WWDC21 our biggest and best yet, and are excited to offer Apple developers new tools to support them as they create apps that change the way we live, work, and play,” Apple’s vp of Worldwide Developer Relations and Enterprise and Education Marketing Susan Prescott stated.
The Cupertino firm additionally introduced that it’s presently accepting submissions for this yr’s Swift Student Challenge, the place younger builders are given a chance to showcase their coding abilities on Swift programming language by creating an interactive scene in a Swift playground “that can be experienced within three minutes.”
Apple hopes that “WWDC21 will provide Apple’s worldwide community of more than 28 million developers, as well as the next generation of app developers, with the information and tools needed to turn their ideas into reality.”
The United States surpassed 30 million whole instances of COVID-19 on Sunday, and the seven-day common of latest instances was barely lower than 60,000 per day, in response to officers of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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