Steve Jobs’ Keynote was THE event here at WWDC, the event that everyone wanted to attend. While many people I spoke with in line waiting to grab a seat at the keynote came to WWDC strictly to watch the keynote, many others are here primarily for the sessions and labs. See my posts: Waiting in Line @ WWDC, The line moved… A little, and On the way to the Keynote.

At the keynote Steve introduced iPhone 3G, MobileMe and Snow Leopard, all of which were in one way or another predicted beforehand. The iPhone 3G is slimmer, blacker/whiter (in 16Gb only), faster, cheaper and available July 11th. MobileMe is replacing .Mac as Apple’s syncing and online storage service, Apple also extended support to Windows computers and added push services. Snow Leopard, the next version of OS X (10.6) was also announced and should be available in about a year. See my posts: Snow Leopard is the next OSX, iPhone 2.0 Software, MobileMe, iPhone’s First Birthday, iPhone 3G and WWDC: Day Two + Snow Leopard.

OS X 411’s coverage of WWDC08 was superb and I wasn’t expecting to to go so smoothly. Since I’m attending WWDC as a student I was worried about even getting into the keynote, last year Apple denied access to students. Luckily, this year Apple allowed everyone into the Keynote and I was lucky enough to grab close seats. Just how close? Well, we were less than twenty rows from the front, my friend Jason guessed about ten (see the picture below for the pure awesomeness). We had the actual iPhone development team sitting in the row in front of us, I’m not sure we could have gotten any closer, VIPs were in the closest rows, Al Gore was one of them.

In addition to having great pictures I updated the site with new information within seconds of it being said and had photos up shortly after I updated the text. Although I did not cover the keynote word-for-word like other sites, I got my readers the information FAST. The person I was attending WWDC with checked sites like Engadget, and I had photos and news up before them on a few announcements (I guess there is something to be said for the “little guy”).

I just arrived in San Francisco, and the first thing I did was stop by Moscone to grab my badge for WWDC and check out what all Apple had done to the location.

Apple has two huge Apple logos on the building, which make it easy to spot. The inside is also covered with Apple stuff, mainly about the iPhone and OS X.

I’m scheduled to attend Apple’s 2008 WWDC, and providing I can grab a seat at the Keynote (Monday @ 10AM PST) I’ll update OS X 411 with live updates. Check the tag wwdc08live for up to the minute updates as well as the main page. I will also be posting all announcements to the blog as individual posts.

Today Apple posted the session schedules for their 2008 World Wide Developers Conference, WWDC for short. 

See Apple’s WWDC08 Schedule here.

I plan on posting more about WWDC08 soon, what I can say is that I will be attending it as a student courtesy of Apple and their Student Scholarship program. See my personal blog for more on my attendance.