I think I’ve always been an “all or none” kind of guy, and my relationship with technology is no exception. Like a starving used car salesman pitching a prospective customer, I tend to proselytize my victim on my current setup, regardless of relevance. I was a fervent if not rabid IBM customer until I finally got over myself and switched to Mac Sophomore year of college. Like an amnesiac, I ditched all my previous edicts, and joined the Church of Steve.
While I can’t say for sure, I think I watched my first WWDC Keynote that year as well. What I do know is that attending this conference has been a fantasy of mine for quite some time, although I wasn’t sure it would come to fruition, and certainly not this soon.
Yesterday, I sat in the audience with 5,600 other Mac fanatics, and worshipped at the throne of all that is technologically sexy. I’m not embarrassed to admit that I got butterflies in my stomach when the lights dimmed and Steve Jobs strolled out on to the stage, generating screams and wild applause like a rock star playing in his home town.
All in all, this wasn’t a hallmark year. It was almost a known fact that we would get an iPhone update almost exactly one year after the initial release. A sneak peek of 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was presented, but even that precluded any new features, opting instead for stability and polish. There was no “one more thing,” no musical performance from one of SJ’s chums. But I didn’t care. For the past 24-hours, I’ve been filled with the overwhelming feeling that I’ve achieved something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
I live-tweeted the announcements, much to the chagrin of my friends and followers (sorry Jon Tan!), and I got to repeat the day’s events, blow by blow, for my brother’s friends and roommates.
The bad news is that while transferring photos to my laptop, Aperture decided to delete all the photos from the Keynote, but the good news is that none of them were very good. I plan on taking many more where allowed (there is an included NDA with conference attendance), but I’m not going to miss a second. What I can share, I will.
Yours,
-A very satisfied geek
Congrats man… so glad you made it.
see if you can nail down an aperature engineer on why version 1 sucked so much. tell him about your keynote pictures! that’s kind of idle gossip in the back of house.
at least you got a product launch dude, even if it a damned jack in the box. for a while there WWDC was mostly a bitching session about carbon vs cocoa.
How was it Eli???