Apple puts up WWDC 2017 decorations at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center

In preparation for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, set to kick off next week, workers have begun putting up decorations around the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.

The conference's familiar imagery can be seen not just on a banner over the center, according to Twitter posts, but on lamp posts and even pillars at a nearby public transit station. More decorations are presumably being put up inside, as at past WWDCs.

This year's event is set to begin with an Apple keynote on June 5. While much of the company's time will probably be spent showcasing the next versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, it's also expected to make its first WWDC hardware announcements since 2013.

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Those should include new iPads, upgraded MacBooks, and potentially the company's rumored Siri home speaker. That device is allegedly already in manufacturing, but set to ship sometime later in 2017, perhaps well after June.

A number of unofficial gatherings will be taking place concurrent with WWDC. Some of them, like concerts and podcast recordings, are being highlighted on Apple's Beyond WWDC webpage.

The decision to host WWDC 2017 in San Jose caught some people offguard, since for years Apple has preferred San Francisco, specifically Moscone West. The company said that San Jose would be more convenient for participating staff, but it may have needed too much time to set up.

6 Comments

The_Martini_Cat 485 comments · 12 Years

About 7 years ago

I'm going to go out on a limb here (the fire department can always rescue me back down and get a pitcher of martinis) and say that the price for the Apple Speaker System You Want will be $795. There will be a less-expensive version, but you will want the one I'm talking about. Cheers!

Soli 9981 comments · 9 Years

I look forward to see all the new SW features coming, and hopefully some new HW, which does happen in more than half their WWDC keynotes.

boredumb 1418 comments · 14 Years

The_Martini_Cat said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here (the fire department can always rescue me back down and get a pitcher of martinis) and say that the price for the Apple Speaker System You Want will be $795. There will be a less-expensive version, but you will want the one I'm talking about. Cheers!

I don't think I Will Want either of them...
I've grown attached to my iPad mini (original), except for the part about it not-so-much keeping up any more,
and even the 7plus i recently bought isn't a substitute for my uses,so I'm agonizing, instead, over whether to break open the penny jar
to grab the current iPad mini, against the threat of it being discontinued altogether (aarrrggh).

(Oh, and off-topic, sorry, but I got another one of those notices from a few months ago, about how my iCloud account
has been shut down...although I paid that bill 5 days ago! devices are fine, but on laptop, iCloud wants me to "set up"
again..."Yes, here's my password - you're welcome". Or, maybe, as a software issue, it is on-topic...?)

patchythepirate 1254 comments · 12 Years

boredumb said:

The_Martini_Cat said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here (the fire department can always rescue me back down and get a pitcher of martinis) and say that the price for the Apple Speaker System You Want will be $795. There will be a less-expensive version, but you will want the one I'm talking about. Cheers!

I don't think I Will Want either of them...
I've grown attached to my iPad mini (original), except for the part about it not-so-much keeping up any more,
and even the 7plus i recently bought isn't a substitute for my uses,so I'm agonizing, instead, over whether to break open the penny jar
to grab the current iPad mini, against the threat of it being discontinued altogether (aarrrggh).

(Oh, and off-topic, sorry, but I got another one of those notices from a few months ago, about how my iCloud account
has been shut down...although I paid that bill 5 days ago! devices are fine, but on laptop, iCloud wants me to "set up"
again..."Yes, here's my password - you're welcome". Or, maybe, as a software issue, it is on-topic...?)

I've been getting some phishing emails like that lately. Be careful.

N.B. I tried to find a way to notify Apple, but couldn't find a way to give that kind of feedback, or an Apple support email address to forward to.

patchythepirate said:

boredumb said:

The_Martini_Cat said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here (the fire department can always rescue me back down and get a pitcher of martinis) and say that the price for the Apple Speaker System You Want will be $795. There will be a less-expensive version, but you will want the one I'm talking about. Cheers!

I don't think I Will Want either of them...
I've grown attached to my iPad mini (original), except for the part about it not-so-much keeping up any more,
and even the 7plus i recently bought isn't a substitute for my uses,so I'm agonizing, instead, over whether to break open the penny jar
to grab the current iPad mini, against the threat of it being discontinued altogether (aarrrggh).

(Oh, and off-topic, sorry, but I got another one of those notices from a few months ago, about how my iCloud account
has been shut down...although I paid that bill 5 days ago! devices are fine, but on laptop, iCloud wants me to "set up"
again..."Yes, here's my password - you're welcome". Or, maybe, as a software issue, it is on-topic...?)

I've been getting some phishing emails like that lately. Be careful.

N.B. I tried to find a way to notify Apple, but couldn't find a way to give that kind of feedback, or an Apple support email address to forward to.

No one should ever click on an email to access an account unless you've specifically just asked for verification to be sent via email, like when resetting a password. Organize bookmarks in folders so you can access accounts quickly or type in a URL manually if it's some rarely used website.