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WWDC 2018 acronyms spelt out

Yesterday, Apple kicked off the 2018 annual event of their Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with the keynote presentation. During the keynote, many exciting new features were announced for iOS, macOS and many more of Apple's products. While watching the presentation, I noticed the use of a lot of acronyms. So I added the new ones I've never heard of, such as USDZ and ZSO and compiled a list of all the acronyms used during the presentation on Spell It Out.

One presenter in particular, Adobe's CTO, Abhay Parasnis, I thought did a good job spelling out words and phrases that are often abbreviated. This made his portion of the keynote welcoming and more digestible in my opinion to an audience beyond the intended developer and tech audience.

If you watched or are watching the keynote presentation for the first time and puzzled by some of the acronyms used by the speakers, check out the WWDC 2018 list of acronyms spelt out on Spell It Out.


Originally posted on michaelsoolee.com.

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Eljay-Adobe

On behalf of Abhay, thank you for the shoutout!

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Michael Lee πŸ•

Thanks Eljay! Yeah I was impressed by Abhay's portion. Definitely kudos to him!

Also thanks for all your work over at Adobe! As a user, very appreciative of the products you all are working on there.

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Eljay-Adobe

It's a great software company to work for. Lots of very brilliant software developers. Lots of interesting products. Fabulous corporate DNA and culture.

I've worked on AlterCast / Graphic Server, Document Server, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. Plus a few skunkworks projects.

And we're hiring!

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Omayeli Arenyeka

Hey Michael, love this! is the code open source anywhere? would love to dig in.

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Michael Lee πŸ•

Thanks so much @yellzheard for the kind words :) It isn't open source at the moment. But is there anything in particular you're curious about? More than happy to share stuff about the project.