Inside view of the iPhone Tech Talks from Daniel Jalkut

"Developers have to sign up early and then hope for acceptance"

...Just like their apps, apparently. :)

I was at the NYC tech talk as well. It happened exactly as Daniel said. Very focused, mini-WWDC format with more in-depth presentations. I loved it.

Every session I attended was top-notch. I hope they upload videos for the sessions I wasn't able to attend, as I heard I missed some good ones.

Great job Apple.

I was at the tech talk in rome last year, and I must say I was really blown off. I had been considerig developing for the iPhone for some time; after the talk, in a matter of a week, I had bought an iPhone and started developing.

I was at the first of these in San Jose about 3 weeks ago. Very classy from the start. And it wasn’t all fluff or “stuff we’ve heard before.”. They had a great presentation on OpenGL –ES tricks that I used to speed up Distant Suns by about 30%. Their presentation on UI was very helpful, specifying what kind of UI matches what kind of app.

As an offshoot of that, they had a room set aside as labspace, where one of their top UI guys was available (by appointment only) to critique our software. After saying “brilliant!” when I showed him Distant Suns 2, his only suggestion was to move the help button and increase the size of one of the toolbars. I then started to unload me wishlist for the Appstore and he funneled me over to their Appstore guy. I had about 20 minutes with him and about half of what I suggested he eagerly jotted down. Afterwards I asked him his title and he responded “uh, director of the Appstore.” A few minutes later I went back with another idea: (don’t think I can say due to NDA stuff) and he looked at me and said “you mean we don’t do that already? That’s so obvious!” Then ran back to his Mac and typed it in.

So a great time, and I look forward to the next one.

After each of these tech talk tours Apple puts recorded videos of the sessions online for free download. (You may need to be a paid iPhone developer, not sure)

But the last tour and a set of tech talks are on ADC on iTunes now. This tour was more advanced topics than usual though.

I read reviews from the Tech Talks in other cities and someone did mention that Apple would be putting up videos for this tour as well. So keep a look out for them.

It looks like the last tour took place around the same time as this one except in 2008 and the videos came out in March 2009. Hopefully the videos for this tour will come out sooner.

I attended the event December 1st. I wish I could have gone to all the different presentations, but since everything was condensed into one day, you'd have to pick wisely. Since the event was only one day, I wasn't able to seek out an evangelist to review the interface design of my application either.

The presenters and attendees were friendly and engaging, and really open to discussing things. After each presentation, you could seek out the presenter and ask questions.

People did find ways to get to the event from all over the east coast. I met attendees that came from baltimore, florida, philly and ct.

Yes, the talks were absolutely refreshing and the speakers really know how to promote the SDK and how to encourage the developers. By the way, I attended the Tech Talk 2009 in Hamburg (Germany).

Couldn't agree more. Was at the London tech Talk and I came away inspired...