WWDC
WWDC appears in 981 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is easing, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not WWDC's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of WWDC is easing — it appears in 981 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What WWDC coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 561 classified coverage items in this window. Press framing is a share of the 560 of those whose framing could be read — vendor and primary-source items carry no framing.
These labels describe the story, not the event. Coverage counted under “Launch” is coverage of a launch that mentions WWDC — the label says what the story was about, never a claim about WWDC itself.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
981 articles mention WWDC across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 508 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report Apple previewed the iPhone Handoff idea at WWDC in June.
As of 5 Sep 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 352,124 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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Full history & coverage trailMonth-by-month make-up & every cited source
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