Apple is holding a “confidential” and invite-only one day iPhone Tech Day Workshop, July 23, 2007 on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California for web developers, widget developers, web designers, and software engineers. The purpose of the workshop seems to be a sort of “iPhone 101″ for developers, and to help them optimize web applications for the iPhone.
The event is free, but you have to be an Apple Developer Connection member. The email (copied below) says its invite only but also shows how seemingly anyone can attend.
You’re invited to an exclusive iPhone Tech Day Workshop, July 23, 2007 on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California.
This confidential 1-day workshop is designed to teach you how to create and optimize your web applications for iPhone and to communicate essential information about iPhone development.
Don’t miss this unique, invitation-only opportunity to adapt your web content and begin your iPhone development today!
———————- WORKSHOP STRUCTURE AND CONTENT ———————
The iPhone Tech Day Workshop is an intensive, hands-on 1-day session with in-depth technical presentations followed by coding & debugging with access to the experts to provide 1-on-1 assistance.
The day will include:
– Ensuring Safari on iPhone compatibility
– Optimizing Web Content for Safari on iPhone
– Best practices for media and synchronized data with iPhone
– Coding and TestingThe iPhone Tech Day Workshop is a highly technical event intended for web developers, widget developers, web designers, and software engineers. Our main priority is to ensure that you have plenty of hands-on coding time to work on your own code with immediate access to Apple engineers and Technology Evangelists.
——————————— ADVANCE PREPARATION ———————————
To attend the iPhone Tech Day Workshop you must:
1. Be an ADC member. Online ADC membership is acceptable. Visit the Apple Developer Connection at http://developer.apple.com/membership/
to become a member or to learn more. 2. Send an email to enroll with your name, company, work email address, and ADC member ID, to adcworkshops@apple.com
3. Bring your source code and current development environment on a FireWire drive or laptop (plus any necessary cables and power supplies). Apple will provide a Mac Pro or iMac for each attendee and a limited number of iPhones for testing purposes, but you are encouraged to bring your own.
4. Await confirmation. See details below.
—————————— REGISTRATION INFORMATION ——————————
There is no enrollment fee for the iPhone Tech Day Workshop. Apple provides lunch and other refreshments during the day. You assume your own travel and hotel expenses.
Seating is limited. We expect this workshop to be very popular, so we encourage you to register as soon as possible.
Upon receipt of your reservation and if space is available you will receive a confirmation email with further details including lodging options. IMPORTANT NOTE: please do NOT make any travel arrangements until you receive your confirmation email. If you have any questions, please contact us at adcworkshops@apple.com
. We look forward to seeing you.
The email sent back to me says if you don’t bring in any source code or you’re not actually working on a project, they reserve the right to boot you from the event.
Apple has a way of getting you to pay for every thing, don’t they!
http://develope...hone/techtalks/
Developing a web app for the iPhone is the last thing I’d do. I like to earn revenue from products that I develop.
It could still be a good workshop to attend since the workshop will teach you how to create and optimize your web applications for the iPhone. If you have web applications that have anything to do with the iPhone, then I don’t see why its not worth attending.
“Developing a web app for the iPhone is the last thing I’d do. I like to earn revenue from products that I develop.”
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read in a while. So people who actually have money ($600 for a phone ain’t pocket change) to spend and also have money to potentially spend on YOUR stuff are not your desired customer base?! Who do you prefer visits your site? A bunch of kids that don’t even have a credit card?!
looks like a good event; glad to see what will come out of this
Is this Apple’s response to iPhoneDevCamp?
…we’re staying one step ahead: http://barcamp....m/MobileDevCamp
Start something local promoting open web standards for mobile devices.
I’d love to attend a workshop where the Apple Team were able to discuss what can and can’t be done for the iphone before we started developing a product. Requiring that you bring work in progress is glorified tech support. If you find yourself in a situation where you need it, your concept may be at risk and you’re likely already in trouble.
While I can’t love enough of my iPhone, (the best $600 I ever spent on anything, period), I find a bug to be really annoying: while iPhone apps are busy loading page (such as real time traffic map, love it by the way), it tends to exit me out of current app and back to iPhone home. It’s not rare, in fact, it happens so often it is getting on my nerve. Anyone has similar experiences?
Grant #10 – try clearing safari cache, history, & cookies and then reboot you phone (not just sleep, but full reboot). I was having similar troubles but they cleared up after a reboot. Good luck.
This is exciting stuff. What does everyone think the iPhone needs more than anything else as far as software development right now?
Haha!
I saw the headline and read “worship”
*True*
I’d be interested if they were talking about creating non-web oriented applications. Their application paradigm assumes that users will be connected to the web all the time. I’m not sure if they understand mobile computing… You need to have the ability to have ‘occasionally connected’ apps — which is something you cannot do with Safari or their stupid widgets.