Apple opened its 23rd annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday by featuring what apparently is Siri’s latest ability, being a comedian. Siri cracked jokes ahead of Apple CEO’s Tim Cook’s appearance on stage, referring to many local characteristics such as finding 396 venture capitals for the thousands of developers currently attending the week-long event, and taking jabs at Facebook, Instagram and Samsung. This year’s WWDC sold out in 1 hour and 43 minutes.

Tim Cook announced that Apple has over 650 thousand apps in the App Store, 225 thousand of which are specifically for iPads. The App Store has 400 million accounts, most of which has credit card details attached to them which puts the App Store among the largest online stores in the world, perhaps even the largest. It has had 30 billion apps downloaded and it exists in 120 countries, with 32 more to open later this month. The company also announced its latest line of notebooks as well as revealed more details on the next major versions of OS X and iOS.

Among the thousands of developers attending the event, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone from Indonesia, although our guest blogger Zeddy Iskandar obviously was there. There are very few iOS developers in Indonesia, given that this is a BlackBerry country and most mobile developers also prefer to develop for Android, simply because they don’t use Macs, don’t want to buy Macs, or can’t afford one. It’s also home to many Nokia developers who are also happy to develop for Windows Phone. As a result, WWDC isn’t on the radar of most software developers in the country.

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