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it is time. I've got to ask this. Wesley Hilliard,

you're the guy who loves the invites thing, your interparses events, you have Super Bowl people, is there anything more exciting than the dates being announced for WWDC?

Yes, infinitely so, because it's the same week every year.

Tell me you plan your holidays around this, don't you?

I'm pretty sure that in the past it was slightly more variable where you had to kind of play a gamble between week one and week two.

And people would be buying their hotels and plane tickets to San Jose like six months in advance

just on the idea that it could be the first week of June.

Now, more recently, and I'd have to look at this, but I'm fairly certain, at least in the last

several years, it has been the first week of June.

I have some pages that I update with dates

for WWDC, and so often in the last few years, I'm just changing an eight to a nine and a nine

to an eight. Right. Yeah. Depending on the day of the week, I get you. Well, actually, I genuinely am excited by it.

The holiday thing is moot because I just don't take holidays.

But I always look forward to WWDC.

This one feels simultaneously as if it's been announced earlier than usual.

I don't think it has, but it feels like it.

But also, like, it's still

quite far away. I mean, it's June 8th to 12th. And all we really care about June the 8th,

really, isn't it? But last week, or possibly the week before, when we were talking about the

way Siri keeps not being improved, I was saying in the olden days, when you had a major feature at this time of year,

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