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Learn to speak Apple

Apple’s priotities and decisions have a huge impact on developers who work with and on their platforms. Each year at WWDC Apple opens its doors, physically and proverbially, to provide insights into those priorities. Sometimes the messages are overt - new platforms, devices, frameworks and APIs. And sometimes the clues are folded in more subtly. Learning to speak Apple isn’t about deference, and it doesn’t have to mean making decisions for our apps that we wouldn’t otherwise make. But experienced Apple platform developers have learned that paying attention to these messages can make our lives easier, give us a head start with new devices, platforms and frameworks, and ultimately, make our apps better. James White has been designing and developing for Apple platforms for 15 years. While by no means fluent, he speaks at least conversational Apple, and will help you to do the same.

About the presenter

James is a long time AUC member who has attended /dev/world, and spoken at it, numerous times. He's an iOS [designer || developer] who spends a lot of time thinking about how to make nice apps