I met a lot of people these two days (WWDC had more than 5,000 attendees from 177 countries), so I wanted to write a little more casually.
What impressed me most was a young black girl, only eighteen years old, just entering college. She is not an iOS developer. She won this award because one of their teams won a hackthon champion and did a project about donation. I hope to establish startup, but I have not received venture capital yet. She is very outgoing and confident in her conversation. Although she says she doesn’t own a MAC yet and hopes to buy one herself, her dream may surprise you. She asked what our dreams (me and a middle-aged Chinese driver) were and ended up talking about her own. I wish I could own a company like Apple or Microsoft. Note that own, which I double-checked, said she didn’t want to work for anyone else and gave me her business card. The card is about their project, and she’s a co-founder, and she’s supposed to be in charge of the business and other parts. Another Chinese told us that his idea was to make more money and buy three or four houses near Santa Clara and rent them so that he could retire early. People long for freedom, but the older they get, the more realistic they become. This little girl doesn’t hide her ambition. Although she may not be able to afford a MAC yet, she probably doesn’t know how much and what kind of responsibility it would entail to own, and at her age, she doesn’t need care. Dream and do it, that’s enough. That’s the definition of being young, fearless; Young people often end up writing history, too — after all, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs started their careers as teenagers.
Session presentations by Apple engineers are generally excellent, with easy-to-understand demos and on-site explanations. However, many Indian engineers’ accents make me uncomfortable, which may be difficult for translation software to recognize. The ar2 was introduced by an Indian engineer, and the update is remarkable, with features and usability much improved over the AR1, thanks to the hard work of Apple engineers. So, don’t underestimate Indians
I went to Apple’s Security Lab. Although I didn’t make an appointment, I still got a chance to communicate with Apple engineers. I do not want to record the specific details here, because it is related to the company’s products. Four waves of people came to OWN. From the perspective of application technology, it seems that it is absolutely not easy to solve the problem completely. Finally, I got an email and a solution, which reached my goal. They’re great developers, but they’re also part of our community. Apple is a company that’s very open technically, has embraced the development community, and has been receiving community commits.
Finally, in the evening, we attended an activity sponsored by a Mac-related service company. We drank beer and enjoyed music in the bar, met different developers and introduced the problems and interesting things we met in our work. It was really interesting. Foreign friends (especially Americans) are much more open than Chinese people. It’s nice to enjoy a wonderful evening at such a party without race, religion or politics.