Makes sense - iPhone drops, oh, and by the way, all that secret Leopard stuff you n00bs totally gave up on? It's all here, and it's this utterly psycho iPhone integration, and Leopard is shipping today. Boom.
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Apple iPhone to be Released on June 11th?
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I think you've hit the nail on the head here. iPhone, Leopard and some new hardware announcements all on the same day - one can hope.
Nnnooooo!!!
Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad!
SJ's WWDC2007 keynote shall be based on new iMacs, Macbook Pros, Leopard and iLife '07, not iPods,TVs, and especially not iPhones. SJ would just stand up there and blab on about how great the iPhone is, and not actually release any new products that we haven't already heard about!
Please, Stevie J, keep your WWDC keynote focussed on my next notebook, not on some cool phone that I won't be able to get my hands on for another year.
PS. I thought it was the 11th, but whatever. I Want My SR MBP!
WWDC is about developers and Apple technology. True, if they won't even let us write apps for the iPhone and don't "officially" support hacking the Apple TV, they don't seem really appropriate subjects for WWDC. But there's no fundamental reason why WWDC should have to be limited to the Mac and its apps.
I would have expected Apple to space things out a little more, but it's been eerily quiet since Macworld two months ago.
Maybe we're going to get one of those wild, roller coaster, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink days at WWDC. iPhone! Bam! Leopard! Thwack! iLife, quad-core, top-to-bottom refreshes!! Boom shaka laka!! HD movies and The Beatles!! Pow!! Widescreen iPod!!
[breathes]
Personally, I'd rather see quiet hardware refreshes and a music/video event in April, a separate Leopard event in May and Steve taking a victory lap at WWDC, but I'm just being impatient. Apple likes a big splash.
I think maybe we'll get a snazzy new, ultra-slim iMac at WWDC that will morph by Macworld '08 into Apple HD.
Leopard! iPhone! New hardware! Crazy iPhone integration!
BOOM!
"We have three products of this calibur shipping today. Leopard, the iPhone, and brand new Macs. Leopard, the iPhone, brand new Macs. Leopard... iPhone... are you getting it? These are not three separate announcement... this is one announcement!"
And then he wheels out an iMac with a Leopard installation disc and an iPhone cellotaped to the front. Shipping today.
BOOM!
"We have three products of this calibur shipping today. Leopard, the iPhone, and brand new Macs. Leopard, the iPhone, brand new Macs. Leopard... iPhone... are you getting it? These are not three separate announcement... this is one announcement!"
And then he wheels out an iMac with a Leopard installation disc and an iPhone cellotaped to the front. Shipping today.
I'll bet any new Mac will require Leopard. So they are holding the Macs until Leopard. Leopard will be released on June 11 at the conference.
Yes, that's a very good point. wait, i mis-read that.
are you meaning the phone will require you to have leopard for your mac to link/connect to the phone?
just like the apple TV
june 11th huh?? kinda reminds me of how the TV was coming out in February but shipped in march... i for one cannot wait for the iphone and wish i had not heard about it (so i would not be sitting waiting and reading these forums 50 times a day). But if waiting for the C2D macbooks have taught me anything... come june, all we wil hear is "NEXT TUESDAY"
june 11th huh?? kinda reminds me of how the
TV was coming out in February but shipped in march... i for one cannot wait for the iphone and wish i had not heard about it (so i would not be sitting waiting and reading these forums 50 times a day). But if waiting for the C2D macbooks have taught me anything... come june, all we wil hear is "NEXT TUESDAY" Actually I was on the phone with Apple's tech this week and each time I was put on hold the music was the Beatles.
...and an update for XCode that lets you build apps for the iPhone and submit them to Apple for approval and distribution through the iTunes Store.
...and since I haven't seen anyone else answer the question yet, Steve usually does his thang on the second day of WWDC, IIRC.
Makes perfect sense to me to release it on the first day of the event along with the aforememntioned prediction of an update to XCode. There's a Cingular ("The New AT&T") store within a couple of blocks of the Moscone Convention Center.
Announce iPhone. Don't block the doorways. Profit.
Makes perfect sense to me to release it on the first day of the event along with the aforememntioned prediction of an update to XCode. There's a Cingular ("The New AT&T") store within a couple of blocks of the Moscone Convention Center.
Announce iPhone. Don't block the doorways. Profit.
That's nice. How about a rumor detail of a new iPod, uh? Or do we need to wait after June to get a new iPod? Come on, now.
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SJ's WWDC2007 keynote shall be based on new iMacs, Macbook Pros, Leopard and iLife '07, not iPods,
This is a developer's conference. He may take the opportunity to talk about new products but he is primarily addressing developers. That said, he could very well spend time talking about the iPhone. He could introduce a developer's kit for the iPhone along with an Apple certification process for iPhone Apps. He could talk about a game development kit for the iPod. and the same goes for thr Apple TV. He could offet a way for third party aps to be put on the ATV, iPod and iPhone. He certainly will talk about how Apple used new features of Leopard to built those new "super secret features" and how developers could also do some thing like that. I hope he introduces some new hardware.
I'm still waiting for something to replace the G4 towers. Back in 2001 Apple sold powerful upgradeable computers for $1,500. Why can't they do this today? If they don't sell one by end of June I'm putting Mac OS X on generic PC hardware.