Apple WWDC pre-day 1... I failed the litmus test

So riding out on the plane yesterday I was "fortunate" enough to sit around some mac heads.  They were really stoked about the apple conference.  And hey I was too!  It's a chance to meet other software engineers from all over the country, maybe even the world and to see what they've been working on and talk to them.  I'm all about writing software and I can't wait to see what other people have been working on.  There is however one problem... I don't like Kool-aid.  Yes that's right.  I don't drink it, Hell, I don't even like to look at it.  But these guys sitting next to me, had kool-aid in their veins.

Before I go too much further into my diatribe here I feel I need to give all of you a bit of background on myself.  I'm a cynical man, a very cynical man.  Some people look at a glass as 1/2 full, other see it as 1/2 empty.  When this question is posed to me I pick up the glass and break it into tiny bits.  Now NOONE can have ANY!  I question, I observe and I especially don't believe that whatever any company does is super awesome golden care bears all the time. (all your base are belong to me!)

So as I was speaking to these bokes about what the conference held in store it was pretty apparent that they were all about anything apple.  Apple could do no wrong!  It was almost as if apple was their sweet little Johney, unable to do no wrong. (No miss smith, Little johney didn't bite the head off your cat, and if he did I'm sure it was an absolutely necessary action).  As we spoke of all these wonderful things apple may do such as break into the social networking realm or change the iphone screen from glass to plastic I couldn't help myself to remark how ridiculous these things seemed to me.  (did I also mention that I have a big mouth?).  Sure enough I spent the next 20 minutes hearing how apple would change the world of social networking, how all their users would quickly flock over and change the world.  Funny part is Mac users only represent maybye 20% of the user base for personal computers.  When I made this remark... I was met with many, many disapproving faces.

It was like I was a strip of paper dunked into apple urine and I didn't come out the right color.


I think this will prove to be an interesting week.  There is much to do, much to see and much to learn.  The conference opens today with a keynote address.  Assuming I have wifi access and enough room to use my 17" laptop I'll see if I can do some live blogging during the event.  Also look for pictures off of the iPhone uploaded directly to gather from the event.

And I'm off!!

Edit

Here is the link for my Keynote live blog.