WWDC 2020 cancel due to COVID-19

WWDC 2020 will be an online-only event.

Apple’s annual developer conference is one in every of several tech events that are canceled, postponed, or modified this year.

With tech conferences and sporting events being canceled or delayed, and theme parks closing, it had been expected that Apple’s annual developer conference follows suit.

Apple said on Friday WWDC 2020 will be an online-only event. 

The announcement does not mention coronavirus because the reason for moving to an online-only format this year, however, it does not have to be compelled to.” The current health scenario has needed that we have a tendency to produce a replacement WWDC 2020 format that delivers a full program with a web keynote and session,” Phil Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller aforementioned within the announcement.

The event unremarkable brings several thousand developers into San Jose, Cali. and puts them in close quarters as they find out about the newest options and developer tools coming to iOS, macOS, iPadOS, Watch OS, and TV OS.

Apple did not embody an explicit date that the announcements or developer sessions would be streamed. Instead, some additional details would be created obtainable in the developer app, on the developer portal, and sent out by email before June.

The company also proclaimed it’ll commit $1 million to San Jose organizations to assist “offset associated revenue loss as a result of WWDC 2020s new online format.”

WWDC is the latest event to be canceled. On Thursday Microsoft proclaimed it absolutely was moving Build, its developer conference, to an internet format. Earlier this month, Google I/O and Facebook F8 were also canceled.