iPhone 3GS, Marble Delayed, Tablet Exists?

[mr.fancypants]

Relief

I, for one, am relieved they skipped the iPhone IIE and IIC, and went straight to the GS.

 

[BoyRacer]

iPhone OS 3.0

I wonder why he didn't mention iPhoneOS 3.0?

Is it so unlikely that iPhoneOS 3.0 is ready for release?

 

[cocky jeremy]

$59 for Snow Leopard.. i can dig that. I hope the only different between the $199 and $299 model of the new iPhone is storage. If so, i'll gladly take the $199, 16 GB version considering i only use about 9 GB of my current 16 GB iPhone 3g.

 

[bobertoq]

As long as the iphone is exclusive to them, what reason would they have to do that? Given their current iphone subscriber base, wouldn't that be a huge loss in revenue?

Maybe, but if you lower the rates to just a fraction of one's paycheck, vs half of it, you are bound to get more subscribers, so if you have more subscribers but a lower rate you should make more profit.

 

[t7ray]

The WAIT is driving me Crazy... then i realized... what am i really waiting for.. apple is only going to announce the new iphone tommorrow.... then we All Gotta wait about another month to actually buy one...i need a life!... haha but with all that said.... i still CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!

 

[basketball762]

i still CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!

Haha, I totally agree with you

 

[Apple Corps]

Maybe someday we will get to see this tablet. 🙁

The rumors have been better in past years... darn.


As long as the iphone is exclusive to them, what reason would they have to do that? Given their current iphone subscriber base, wouldn't that be a huge loss in revenue?

One reason could be Apple telling them to maintain exclusivity for and additional XYZ time frame AT&T will have to offer reduced rate data plans consistent with Apple's introduction of lower priced iPhones.

We will know soon.

 

[gkarris]

APPLE STORE DOWN!!!

LOL... Kidding....

Look for a lot of these threads tomorrow... 🙂

 

[hayhay]

Son of a gun!!!! I'm so incredibly excited about tomorrows WWDC...but at the same I'm so incredibly worried I'm going to be crushed when either they don't say a word about a new iPhone model...or they do and the video portion isn't part of it...that's what I really really want!!

 

[8CoreWhore]

Apple will have 6 versions of Snow Leopard:
499.00 Super Duper Titanium -- will have iLife
359.00 Super Titanium -- no iLife but it will provide a subscription to anti-virus
299.00 Titanium -- no iLife, no DVD burning
199.00 Cobalt -- no iLife, no DVD burning, no Quicktime Player
129.00 Plywood, Basic, home, beginners version - no iLife, no DVD burning, no QT Player, you can't change your wallpaper and you can only run 3 programs. iTunes costs 5.00/month or it will run with reduced capabilities.
To add 64 bit support, add 103.62 to any version above.
😀

 

[Pooshka]

It's iPhone 3GXTC, not 3GS. 🙄

 

[omerbaker]

The WAIT is driving me Crazy... then i realized... what am i really waiting for.. apple is only going to announce the new iphone tommorrow.... then we All Gotta wait about another month to actually buy one...i need a life!... haha but with all that said.... i still CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!

My common sense tells me the same thing, but I'm hoping that with the Pre release and AT&T pushing for the new equipment lights a fire under Apple to release the new iPhones by the end of the month (or maybe within two weeks). They maybe pipe dreams, but they're my pipe dreams! I've been waiting for a 32Gb iPhone for over a year, I can wait, but I really don't want to.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Sorry John,

A developer doesn't have to lead-in time to get used to a new theme. A developer has to have lead-in time to get used to new ways the GUI interacts under Apple's HIG Guidelines.

Apple isn't announcing the release of Snow Leopard tomorrow.

A few months to work with changes to the HIG Guidelines and UI theme is plenty of time to market for third party apps.

 

[MarkSTi04]

Hmm, I hope this guy is off target alittle. By that I mean I hope there is more stuff being covered than just the iPhone stuff and Snow Leopard. Don't get me wrong, Im very excited about the 2 items. Im just hoping for more.

 

[iPhoneNYC]

I think tethering is a big deal - let's just hope that ATT doesn't mess up the feature with high pricing.

 

[twoodcc]

i'm not sure i believe all of this. seems like most of it is just his opinion

 

[iOrlando]

it is widely known (widely meaning within apple rumor circles) that for whatever reason apple does release reliable rumors to a select few with the instructions that they can release the info the day before and right before the presentation. John G and Kevin Rose are two people which fit into this category.

The reasons for apple to do is could possibly be:
1) releasing rumors right before the presentation will actually increase the attention the event will receive as people will remember there is an event.
2) to temper expectations. You dont want rumors to get too far-fetched leading to disappointment.


So in summary, I do think John G is right with this info.

 

[me_94501]

We debated this in the previous thread, but wasn't Leopard's UI unveiled to developers at WWDC '07? Just months before it shipped?

Officially, yes, but I seem to remember elements of it were in the final pre-WWDC build that year.

 

[Goona]

I can't wait, so excited.

 

[jcostaman]

No way Snow Leopard is going to be free, it will be the same price. I think there will be features, Apple just won't be heavily focused on them.

No one said free. He said $59...

 

[joeshell383]

Remember before Leopard was released there was a rumor floating around about a new theme called "Illuminous"?
😉

The descriptions of Illuminous and Marble are similar. Apple has been working on a UI change for years, although the directions Apple was working towards may have changed one or more times. We can already see aspects of a new UI in Leopard (Quick Look and Full Screen Quick Look) and SL beta builds (QuickTime title bars). The original OS X featured a translucent plastic appearance, just like the Macs it ran on, the next OS X versions featured an aluminum appearance, just like the Macs they ran on, Leopard is just a bland gray that has no meaning as it was the simplest way to unify all the versions of brushed aluminum Apple was using before. Now Macs are aluminum and glass with black accents. Marble will reflect this, Apple just needs to release it already!

 

[Ben Logan]

+1 for "Face Palm." Fantastic absurdity! 🙂

I'd forgotten about "illuminous." And, "marble" better not really look like marble ice-cream! Man, talk about hard on the eyes! 😱

 

[marv08]

With Snow Leopard and Windows 7 both coming out around the same timeframe, and based on the fact both of them are less feature based, OS X is going to need something to 1-up Windows.

Hehe. That made me laugh. I have been using "7" (beta and RC), and all Apple has to do to "1" it "up" is: sit still for half a decade. It may get somewhat close to Tiger (if I generously forget about the lack of a good search feature like Spotlight and the least bit of taste), but it is not even on the same planet as Leopard and 10.6 should (even without many new features and a gimmicky "marble" interface) re-establish the lead at around "5 years plus".

 

[Peace]

First off. Developers have had a year to get their apps 64-bit. That is Apple's main concern. They want to go to Cocoa as much as possible.

Secondly Apple has extensive examples of the use of Cocoa. The most famous one being called "Menus". It shows developers how to implement Cocoa. If anyone is familiar with how Apple engineers work they know from examples come uniformity in the GUI.

In short. Developers already have a good idea of what "Marble" would look like so the idea that Apple would be springing a new GUI on them is nonsense.

When Apple does show the Dev preview of SL Tomorrow developers will have around 2 months to finalize their apps.
you can see it in QT-X.

Gruber is wrong on this one.

 

[NAG]

Too bad about no marble, aqua is getting kind of boring. I wonder if they're going to switch to ZFS for 10.7.