Apple reveals lineup for its biggest-ever Worldwide Developers Conference

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-reveals-lineup-for-its-biggest-ever-worldwide-developers-conference/

by konz • 6 years ago

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sandstrom• 6 years ago

It feels like often when they portray a minority they're trying to cram several sub-groups into the same person (or in this case avatar).

"Let's put in a black, transgender person with green hair and Asperger's and a blind, blue-haired, handicapped asian girl with multiple piercings. We'll stick in a white dude too, since we know the conference will be 90% white, heterosexual males and we don't want them to feel too unwelcome."

I get that they want to make everyone feel welcome, which is great! But when it's too made up it doesn't feel genuine and you'll just discount it as diversity window dressing.

andrekandre• 6 years ago

not to dogpile too much, but these memojis all over wwdc 2020 creep me out... it feels almost like infantilsm of the dev community (i know thats not apples intent, but...)

socceroos• 6 years ago

When Apple happily works in tandem with a government which has imprisoned an entire minority and has been doing the same thing to Christians for decades, you get some perspective on how much they dress themselves up to impress their local audience, not because they actually care.

ipiz0618• 6 years ago

The white dude looks more like Hispanic to me, which is more inline with Apple's public stance - "inclusiveness".

hackerbrother• 6 years ago

This is such a weird comment. The people don't look not normal.

tinus_hn• 6 years ago

Sorry to break it to you but the main event is hosted by a white not heterosexual guy.

Apple reveals lineup for its biggest-ever Worldwide Developers Conference

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