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What did developers think of WWDC?

The keynote that opens Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference is streamed live on the web, making it a fixture in the Silicon Valley media calendar.

Sessions from the five-day event are also posted (at bit.ly/mfwwdc19vids) for everyone to see. But the real target audience is the 5,000-odd members of Apple’s Developer Programs who win the annual lottery for a $1,599 (£1,265) ticket to attend in person, plus the 350 students awarded Apple scholarships. We asked for some of their reactions to WWDC 2019.

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A long keynote with plenty of technical detail left some members of the public nonplussed, but developers were enthusiastic. Kyle Lee, a self-taught Swift coder

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