Apple fun

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, June 24th, 2011

I’ve been using an Apple computer since I was 3, so seeing all of this Apple stuff was really interesting and exciting I won a student scholarship to go to WWDC 2011, where I learned sooooo much stuff!

When I got there they were just painting or gluing the logo on

There’s also some banners everywhere (I guess so that you don’t forget what you are there for?)

This is how they get the banners onto the ceiling, they start at the bottom.

This building is really tall… @_@

A few of the people organized a pilgrimage to the mothership, it was awesome!

Check out the security guards in the background staring at Dogcow robot… hahaha!

I was sort of meh about the keynote. It isn’t my favourite thing of WWDC, and it is kind of weird how everyone makes a big deal out of it. I decided to go and line up around 6AM. I had a pretty good place in line, I would have had a really good seat if I didn’t walk up to the front where there were empty seats. The empty seats were “saved”. So I ended up in the back, thankfully there were still seats left o_O

I liked this slide a lot because it was so colourful!

The bash was SOOO boring, although I did talk to some pretty cool people!

The last day was kind of sad because not many of the engineers in the labs wanted to help because they were all tired and stuff. And then we had to leave…

Mac OS X DOGCOW!

Bye, WWDC!

Overall, WWDC was a really cool experience. I was disappointed though that some of the technology I was hoping to be released for iOS was not. It was still a lot of fun learning more about speech synthesis and recognition on the Mac, and also learning about hardware devices on iOS and Mac. I also learnt about blocks, and they are SO COOL!

I absolutely enjoyed meeting everyone! For everyone that came up and asked questions about Dogcow robot, thanks! You totally made my week!

Hopefully if I am able to go back next year, I will be able to meet more people and learn even more! Maybe I will even have a shot at the Apple Design Awards, now that I know what they are

Posted in: Fun.
Tags: 2011, Apple, Dogcow, mothership, WWDC

2 Responses to “Apple fun”

1. RobotGrrl.com » Blog Archive » Adventures in California Says:
   June 24th, 2011 at 1:37 PM

   [...] had an absolutely wonderful time in California! There was a lot of Apple fun, I visited Anybots, and also Google, ADK, San Mateo Fair and [...]

2. RobotGrrl.com » Blog Archive » RoboBrrd at Pixar! Says:
   May 11th, 2012 at 9:13 AM

   [...] tour was from @drwave, who I met on Twitter from WWDC’11! EMSL also came along, and it turns out that they also knew him from before. Thanks for the tour [...]

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