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iPhone Tech Talk World Tour

Beginning later this month (Oct. 2008) and continuing through the end of the year, Apple is going to be hosting what is being called the iPhone Tech Talk World Tour.

Presented by various and sundry Apple engineers and tech experts throughout the U.S, Europe, Asia, Australia, and India, the tour’s events will be comprised of discussions and advice on many integral aspects of iPhone software development, including:

* game design
* interface design
* code optimization
* web apps
* custom business apps
* …among others

In order to be permitted to attend any of the iPhone Tech Talk World Tour “sessions” you must be a registered iPhone Developer. If you’re not already a registered iPhone Developer, you can still sign up online to be one.

Among the 24 dates in 16 countries already scheduled on the iPhone Tech Talk World Tour are the following North American stops:

* October 22 – San Francisco, California
* October 24 – Los Angeles, California
* November 3 – Austin, Texas
* November 5 – Chicago, Illinois
* December 2 – New York, New York
* December 4 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* December 9 – Seattle, Washington

The agenda for these events will be broken down into different “tracks”, such as:

* Intro to Objective-C and Intro to Cocoa Touch
* Overview of iPhone Development Tools
* UIKit Features and Device Features, Basic and Advanced
* iPhone User Interface Design
* Technologies for iPhone Game Development
* Maximizing an Apps Performance on the iPhone
* Using iTunes Connect to Submit Apps to the iPhone App Store

There will also be several sessions on a more corporate-development track, including:

* Getting Start with iPhone Web Apps
* Using Advanced Web Technologies with the iPhone
* Integrating the iPhone with IT
* In-house iPhone App Development

These events differ from Apple’s earlier WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference) in that they are smaller and, most notably, in that they are 100% free to attend. And if the 2008 WWDC attendance is any indication (it was sold out), would-be attendees are advised to sign up as soon as possible as the sessions are expected to fill quickly.

These will be somewhat informal gatherings in which participants will be invited to speak openly and directly with the Apple engineers and tech experts present, giving people an unprecedented chance to get their specific iPhone-related questions answered once-and-for-all, and straight from the source. There are even Technical Q&A sessions 2-3 hours in length scheduled for each event.

And what about readers of this piece (and iPhone users in general) who aren’t programmers and developers interested in creating their own lines of 3rd-party iPhone apps. Why is this event of such importance to you?

Because it heralds an imminent flood of new and improved tools, resources, functionalities, capabilities, and conveniences for your favorite smartphone device