Apple Announces WWDC 2008 (June 9-13, 2008)

[knightlie]

Apple said "free SDK" not "free SDK which you'll be able to run apps on your iPhone". There's a difference and maybe you and people like you should take words at face value and not place your own interpretation on the meaning. The SDK is free by all ways that free means. No one had to pay for it. As for your gripe about not being able purchase a license because of your geographic region that also a poor argument. Anyone can purchase (or in this case download) something from another country but that doesn't mean that you will be able to utilize all the features of it that users in that country experience. Suck it up.

His point, if you read it instead of just insulting him, is that the "free" SDK is next to useless, unless you just want to look at pretty apps in an emulator on the screen of your Mac. The SDK is free - the ability to use it to do anything constructive is *not* free, that's his point.

 

[ipo]

think different !

I think, Steve is going to enjoy, turning the picture upside down/ the other way around , to be exact/

What i'm talking about ? : see the thread from "the other side" prospective!
The touch scripts are comming to mac. period
That would mean :

new Mighty mouse
new Displays
new MBP , and after 3 months or so also new MacBooks
new iMacs
more features on the tv
new iPod touch and iPhone
how about that ?

wow very interesting... also, do you think that the apple symbol, looking like the moon in the sky has any intention? Or do you think that it's just coincidence?

nice one

 

[emotion]

His point, if you read it instead of just insulting him, is that the "free" SDK is next to useless, unless you just want to look at pretty apps in an emulator on the screen of your Mac. The SDK is free - the ability to use it to do anything constructive is *not* free, that's his point.

To develop the software is free. The $99 buys you extra service. I know, this isn't an ideal situation but this is Apple we're talking about. This is consistent with how they do business. I don't think $99 is a lot of money either. The console manufacturers have run similar schemes over the years.

As I said earlier Android is a lot closer to the open ethos you (and the other guy with the bee in his bonnet) are craving. I know that platform is behind the iPhone by about a year but I'm sure implementations of hardware will appear soon.

 

[lucky3killer]

My more or less realistic wish list:

iPhone
• iPhone SDK released. Several apps are previewed
• iPhone memory increase 16GB + 32GB + 64GB
• iPhone w/ HDD memory 200GB. Available today.
• 3G iPhone announced. Intel Montevina. Available in the fall (for Christmas '08)

iPod
• iPod Touch memory increase 16GB + 32GB + 64GB
• iPod Touch w/ HDD memory 200GB. Available today.
• iPod Classic discontinued
• iPod Nano memory increase 8GB + 16GB

Announcement of the road map for Mac OS.
• Leopard was last OS X
• Name (Mac OS Leo as in the constellation. No more cats... Leo is a good transition from cats to constellations)
• Focus (multi touch, web based applications)
• Timeline (2010)
• Feature details @ MacWorld 2009

AppleTV
• AppleTV SDK announced
• Apps are widget-like (weather, web clip, movie tickets, etc)
• iChat Video for AppleTV announced. iSight makes a comeback.

One more thing
• New Pro enclosures Mac Pro + MacBook Pro

I don't think that HDD would use for iPod Touch and iPhone, it would eat alot of battery due both of them has stronger CPU and WiFi, also soon to be 3G iPhone then HDD isn't choice, flash memory is alot better and more faster than HDD, also I don't have deal with spinning in HDD like old fashion.

I prefer to use flash memory for iPod Touch and iPhone.

 

[lucky3killer]

I have wait for 3G iPhone, also I don't have patient with slower EDGE.

 

[stein0726]

Look:

The bottom sais everything mac, everything iphone. Two bridges, two major topics to improve on.

New, and improved iphones. New, and improved Macs.

 

[emotion]

WWDC is a developer conference. Likelihood of hardware is relatively low.

I expect it mainly to be about software.

 

[mackiwilad]

A little bit leftfield

Personally I hope they bring Googletalk Video to iChat... and then bring that package to the OSX Mobile platform. Encrypted... drool...

But thats just my .02

Of course that has nothing to do with the cool advert.. doh!

 

[kornyboy]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

This seems a bit earlier than usual. Maybe I'm mistaken.

 

[I WAS the one]

Hahaha LOL! God that made me laugh hard!

me too... I never laughed like that in a long time. hahaha

 

[jouster]

"A landmark event. In more ways than one."

I think "landmark" could mean like a milestone... so maybe we will see some major announcements.

Wow. Nothing gets by you.

 

[BettyBad]

No Hardware

Please stop speculating about new hardware.

When it doesn't happen, then I will have to listen to everyone cry about no new hardware. I'm Soooo sick of the crying.

It's a DEVELOPER CONFERENCE.

 

[i.mac]

The bottom sais everything mac, everything iphone. Two bridges, two major topics to improve on.

New, and improved iphones. New, and improved Mac

...everything leading to one landmark: convergence.

 

[JGowan]

I think that he was complimenting the Apple designers...I didn't think he was trying to be arrogant/sarcastic/cocky in any way

Sure, that's why he started off his post with LOL -- or "Laugh Out Loud". No one asked you, Crispy.

Again, I agree. It ain't that great... looks a little something like MS might do (sorta boring). I simply thought it might be cool if someone showed us what an invitation with that info might look like if done right. People mock-up stuff all the time on this board. On more than one occasion, I've seen some stellar stuff.

 

[timimbo85]

2 bridges coming together as one !! its DEFINITELY hinting at MICROSOFT and APPLE finally JOINING as ONE and travel on a common PATH. yup. the poster says it all. clear as day.

If the two joined, they should call themselves.... Crapplesoft.

 

[i.maverick]

Or what if we're looking at 10.6 allowing windows and mac apps to run side by side without any Boot Camp/Parallels etc? Red Box?

i wish for that to never happen.. i mean the quality of os x apps is far superior than windows
instead, now that mac os x is running higher than ever, maybe the devs would make more for this platform.

or maybe they would actually announce 10.6, windows 7 was confirmed about a week back.!

 

[i.maverick]

My friend in Asia says there will be G5 Powerbooks next Tuesday! I wonder why they don't wait until WWDC to launch something like that...

now, maybe iv been somewhere out there.. but someone please tell me what this thing about the G5 powerbook is.??

n y people want it.?

 

[connoisseur]

Damm these guys at apple for not taking vacations and continuously upping there products.

 

[pcdemon]

OMG Apple just released a follow-up invite

 

[i.maverick]

After waiting here in Ireland for several months longer for the iPhone than Germany, France, and Great Britain and then finally buying it partly because of the SDK,

And after finding out that the "free" SDK requires a payment of 99 dollars a year to be used,

AND after finding out that for the next few months even that offer is only available to American developers,

I really CANNOT WAIT to find out what Steve Jobs will announce next!

What will it be? Does he kill puppies?

u forgot u have to have an intel based mac with leopard on it!!
way 2 go my man Jobs.
ha!

 

[i.maverick]

Dude... thats not just a $ Sign... you can see an M to the left of it if you look closely... Also, if you look at the other side of the other bridge, you can see Billy-G... Maybe its not splitting we're seeing, but a merger! THIS IS HUGE! MAC AND M$ ARE MERGING!

considering what apple's practices have been lately, i see there's more than an outside chance.

 

[Mykbibby]

There obviously will be announcements about two things, and two things only: Mac and iPhone. Here's my guess...

Mac:
- Mac OS X 10.6. To meet the year and a half guideline Jobs imposes upon himself, it will have to be mentioned sometime. I expect a small briefing, with plenty of "Top Secret features" awaiting next year's release. The Name: Mac OS X Cougar
- New Macbook Pros. I know we just finished the mad speculation over the Penryn ones but lets face it: they need a makeover. WWDC would be a perfect time to do so especially with Intel's Centrino 2 announcements.

iPhone:
- Preview of more SDK Apps: announcement of when it ships.
- iPhone 3G, if it doesn't come earlier.
- I bet we'll see a ton more apps made by Apple before the SDK ships, whether WWDC or not.

And my long shots...

One More Thing: Multitouch Displays (hey, one can dream).
One Last Thing: iTablet that Apple Insider is so insistent on: Shipping Today (but knowing Apple will be delayed "just a couple more weeks")

So those are my WWDC Predictions and I'm standing by them. Have at it.

 

[bytethese]

What happens when they run out of cats to name the OS?
I mean, a Lion is at the top of the food chain.

Well, there's always a Liger and the like...

 

[jamest71]

APPLE IS SPLITTING IN TWO?!

*runs*

*jumps through window*

LMAO!!!
I see to bridges coming together TOWARDS me.
The Mac and iphone features combining. More touch features and connectivity between the iphone and the MAC.

The products are coming together from two different places to you the VIEWER/user...

 

[Virgil-TB2]

the baby needs a name

I think the main theme will be "the iPhone OS is THE next major platform" and therefore app development. Second bridge=second platform. They will showcase this with the 2.0 update and the long awaited introduction of third party apps. They will be taunting developers to realize the potential of the iPhone OS as a full fledged platform and the iPhone itself as an eventual truly handheld computer.

Finally, part of this thread has some sense.

It *is* stated pretty clearly that the iPhone is a new "platform" and they differentiate it from "OS-X." It's also a developers conference and there are two bridges at a "Landmark Event."

Apple is being fairly obvious here.

When you add that to the fact that although iPhone runs OS-X it isn't the same OS-X ... I would guess this is the formal announcement party for the "new platform" of iPhone. This formal differentiation could possibly include a new trademark as well as the baby needs a name.

OS-X and her little cousin ....

- OSi ?
- OS-Xi ?
- OS-T ?

They could just go with "iPhone OS" I guess but that's pretty lame isn't it?