Next, Let’s Connect — Extending a Hand to the Next Generation of Apple Developers
summary
The talk describes access barriers in Apple development—high Mac hardware costs and few visible career pathways—and cites sourcing data showing thousands of white and Asian iOS engineers, hundreds of Latinx, but only dozens of Black iOS engineers. It presents Swift and Swift Playgrounds as practical tooling that lowers those barriers and highlights outreach via videos (notably helloMayuko with 215k subscribers and a viral “day in the life” format) as a scalable way to improve inclusion.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 15:35Dimensions of Diversity
- 16:53What We Can Do to Empower the Next Generation
- 18:26How To Get Started
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