Re:Ask HN: Why WWDC is not anymore biggest tech event?
by AdamJacobMuller on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:42AM
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Apple Keynote's used to be HUGE events. I wouldn't be shocked if a huge percentage of the global tech audience, apple fans or not, paused to watch.
My interest was waning for years, I didn't even realize until today around 6PM EST (way after the event was over) that there was a Keynote. Nobody though to text me asking about it, nothing happened in the keynote that anyone text-ed me about during it, nobody even mentioned it on our slack channel (which in years past, was a play-by-play of keynotes).
The magic, really, is gone. I'm quite sure Apple is going to stick around long-term, and they'll still be highly successful if not the most successful company, period, but, the unquantifiable magic is gone and I doubt it will return.
My interest was waning for years, I didn't even realize until today around 6PM EST (way after the event was over) that there was a Keynote. Nobody though to text me asking about it, nothing happened in the keynote that anyone text-ed me about during it, nobody even mentioned it on our slack channel (which in years past, was a play-by-play of keynotes).
The magic, really, is gone. I'm quite sure Apple is going to stick around long-term, and they'll still be highly successful if not the most successful company, period, but, the unquantifiable magic is gone and I doubt it will return.