Timeline of events Dates Attendees Focus List of Talks, Material October 25, 2008[15] 206[16] The first Macoun conference focused on developer tools and technical topics. The then newly released iPhone SDK was of general interest. September 26, 2009[17][18] 291 iPhone OS was still a major topic but the conference widened to more general topics such as UI testing, data serialization and aspectoriented programming. October 2–3, 2010 302 In 2010 the wider range of topics continued and with 3D-printing, the first talk about building custom hardware was given. October 1–2, 2011[19][20] 438 In 2011 “living as a developer” got some attention with talks about being/becoming an independent developer and about being an intern at Apple. October 27–28, 2012[21] 467 Starting 2012, Macoun had its own conference App in the iTunes App Store. October 5–6, 2013 454[22] In 2013 the topics continued to cover a wide range from low level talks (ARM-Assembler) to high level architecture talks. Talks related to hardware development had their time as well as a retrospective on a successful app development. September 27–28, 2014 411[23][24] WWDC 2014’s Swift release made Swift one of the most important topics at Macoun 2014. October 24–25, 2015[25] 474 Swift still was a big topic in 2015 but developing for watchOS and tvOS also got lots of attention.[26] October 1–2, 2016[27] 507[28] In 2016, Apple's release of HomeKit found its reflection at Macoun. October 7–8, 2017 438[29] For the tenth anniversary, attendees could vote for several talks that did not get accepted in previous years. These talks made about one third of the program.