About product release conference, you must remember Apple Worldwide Developers Conference(WWDC), right? But do you remember where the conference is held? Actually, when companies release new products, they will hold some kind of conferences or sessions to introduce their products. But does anyone know what are the places where these conferences are held? Here geekpark summarized some product release places for us.
1. Moscone West Convention Center
Moscone West Convention Center is the biggest conference center in San Francisco, MacWorld and WWDC are frequently held here. Besides Apple, Google I/O, Intel's IDF and Oracle's OpenWorld also choose this place. Let's see what products were released here in past few years.
- In January 2007, Apple released iPhone
- In September 2007, Apple released iPod Touch
- In January 2008, Apple released MacBook Air
- In May 2008, Google released Android and Google App Engine
- In June 2008, Apple released iPhone 3G, App Store and iOS 2.0
- In May 2009, Google released Google Wave
- In June 2009, Apple released iPhone 3G S, Mac OS X 10.6, iOS 3.0
- In May 2010, Google released Android 2.2, Google TV and Chrome Store
- In June 2010, Apple released iPhone 4
- In May 2011, Google released G1, Android 3.1 and Google Music
- In June 2011, Apple released iOS 5, iCloud and Mac OS X 10.7
- In June 2012, Apple released iOS 6, Retina MacBook and Mac OS X 10.8
- In June 2012, Google released Android 4.1, Nexus 7, Google Glass and Nexus Q
2. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco is not only a modern art center but also an important venue for Apple product release. iPad series were released here, iPhone 5 was also released here two weeks ago.
- In January 2010, Apple released iPad
- In March 2011, Apple released iPad 2
- In February 2012, Apple released iPad 3
- In September 2012, Apple released iPhone 5 and iPod Touch 5
3. 4 Infinite Loop
Apple headquarters in San Francisco, Cupertino, a place named 4 Infinite Loop. Do you still remember Let's talk iPhone conference?
- In November 2001, Apple released iPod
- In January 2005, Apple released iPod shuffle, Mac mini
- In October 2011, Apple released iPhone 4S
4. Redmond campus
In August 1995, Microsoft held a Windows 95 release conference in a sport field in Microsoft's headquarter Redmond, There were more than 500 media and 2000 computer industry manufacturers participating in this conference, and at the same time 70,000 people watched live via satellite.
5. New York
Microsoft's multiple Windows releases happened in New York City, such as Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as the Windows 8 release conference at the end of this month will be held in New York. Microsoft will release the next-generation operating system Windows 8, Windows Store, Office 2013 and some other products there.
6. Anaheim Convention Center
Microsoft Build developer conference and BlizzCon are held here, In addition to be able to see the latest Windows Azure, Windows Phone, the beta version of Windows 8, here you can also see the "World of Warcraft" and "StarCraft II" release.
7. New York Waldorf Astoria
On August 12, 1981, in Waldorf Astoria in New York, IBM introduced the world's first personal computer IBM 5150 which obtained a huge success later, The word "PC" is almost exclusively used in computers compatible with IBM standards.
8. Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas Convention Center is the place where American CES Consumer Electronics Show is held, the exhibition is now one of the world's largest consumer technology product fair. There will be epoch-making product appearing almost every year.
What other places can you recommend?
