The shape of app icons has been dominating WWDC invites for a long time. They were a central design element going back to 2009 (refer to supercoder’s comment for a picture).

First they showed actual icons of apps (2009, 2010, 2011), in the last two years and this year they showed more stylised app icons (2012, 2013, 2014). The goes back to even before Forestall was fired/left. It’s always differently coloured app icons. Last year they were overlaid and angled, the year before that they were also overlaid, angled and in different sizes. This year they are only in different sizes.

All you could glean from last years invite was a slight shift in design aesthetic, but that change has already happened (and this years invite is in the same style as last years) so there is no new information in this invite.

All this tells you is that WWDC will be all about apps. As it has been for at least half a decade now. I don’t think whoever designed this even know about the new iPhone hardware.

What clues were in previous years exactly ? http://f.cl.ly/items/083S2g21292V1z403y31/image.jpg

I see a bunch of Mac minis, apple TVs and airport expresses ;-)

Seeing people reading the tea leaves on this one will be entertainment for a few weeks.

Go on then, I'll have a go a reading too much into the artwork...

Looks like a flat version of the Apple TV intro video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFnlKtwIrFg

Or maybe they just like pretty graphics.