By Mark Gurman | Bloomberg
Apple Inc. will maintain its annual Worldwide Builders Convention nearly for the third 12 months in a row, an indication that main tech occasions are nonetheless a methods off from returning to pre-pandemic norms.
The present, higher generally known as WWDC, will happen on-line from June 6 to June 10, Apple mentioned in an announcement Tuesday. However in a slight shift from the earlier two WWDC conferences, the corporate will enable a “restricted” variety of builders and college students to look at the opening day keynote movies from its Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California.
The convention is the place Apple previews its main software program updates for the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac and Apple Watch — sometimes a couple of months earlier than they’re launched. The corporate will maintain a consumer-focused keynote occasion to unveil the brand new software program on June 6, together with one other presentation geared towards software program builders.
The choice to permit a restricted variety of builders on its campus for the occasion is a part of a broader push to undertake a hybrid method to work. The corporate is asking its workers to return to places of work a minimum of a part of the time this month, with the goal of ultimately getting to 3 days per week in particular person.
For WWDC, builders and college students might want to apply to attend the in-person portion. Apple additionally mentioned this 12 months’s occasion can have extra digital on-line periods, digital lounges and localized content material to enchantment to builders in additional locations around the globe.
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