Will we get a preview of iOS 5.0 tomorrow?

[Calidude]

I'm going to say its 50/50 chance of it happening.

 

[jclardy]

I expect 4.3 available to everyone tomorrow, iOS5 Preview (Beta 1?) available tomorrow to developers, released this summer alongside Mac OS 10.7.

I think the event will be like this:

1. Sales updates - Verizon iPhone, iPhone in general, iPad sales, iOS sales in general.
2. iOS 4.3 info
3. iOS 5 info
4. iPad 2 as "One More Thing.."

Just my guess.

 

[shingi70]

I expect 4.3 available to everyone tomorrow, iOS5 Preview (Beta 1?) available tomorrow to developers, released this summer alongside Mac OS 10.7.

I think the event will be like this:

1. Sales updates - Verizon iPhone, iPhone in general, iPad sales, iOS sales in general.
2. iOS 4.3 info
3. iOS 5 info
4. iPad 2 as "One More Thing.."

Just my guess.

why would the ipad 2 be the one more thing. if anything i can see ios 5 being the one more thing.

this is the biggest problem ios faces. one device comes out at the begging of the year and has to wait till june or fall to utilize the update. there needs to be some ipad ios only items that make the 4.1-4.9 releases compelling.

 

[Stetrain]

I am of the view that unlike many other Apple timetables which are tried and true (e.g. Timing of the new iPod touch each fall), ios previews and updates are a sufficiently new phenomenon, and are impacted by an increasing number of recent new and different wrinkles (first the iPad, then the Verizon iPhone) that we shouldn't just look to the past to draw overly firm conclusions.

Is it likely that iOS 5 gets previewed this spring some time? Yes it is. But many things, including those mentioned above, could serve to continue the trend to push it later into the spring each year.

The reason that there's such a big lead time on iOS version updates is to give developers a good long stretch to start getting their apps up to speed with the new functions and APIs, as well as testing the OS and giving feedback to Apple about bugs and functionality.

 

[Durious]

To sum up, my guess (and it is a guess therefore 99.9% certain this will be wrong) is we'll see four things tomorrow:

1) iPad 2 with a VERY short lead time before launch.
2) A preview of some iOS 5 features in the same way they previewed Lion but NOT a full-on walkthrough. That can wait for a developer event where they can have more time and, if they really are going to launch iPad 2 almost immediately, start building hype up after the initial sales rush has died down.
3) Some info on iTunes going to the cloud in some form or another.
4) A MobileMe announcement.

All four of those would link in together to form a very nice message about the future of iOS AND OS X and play very nicely off the tag line of "come see what 2011 will be the year of".

Yes that's what I'm betting on as well!!

 

[charpi]

I think it will be something major.

"Come and see what 2011 will be the year of". Should be something big right?

I'm guessing relatively big changes in iOS5. And iPad 2 as the "one more thing".

Calender peeling off to show a map icon?
A square shaped iPad?

Speculations, speculations.

HYPE

 

[ouimetnick]

You forgot to add the I'm not sure option... I voted yes, because they preview the next major release of iOS around March/April. I think it would be strange to have another event a month later for iOS 5.

 

[BeSweeet]

Possibly. If anyone wants a cheap UDID slot, let me know via PM!

 

[jclardy]

why would the ipad 2 be the one more thing. if anything i can see ios 5 being the one more thing.

this is the biggest problem ios faces. one device comes out at the begging of the year and has to wait till june or fall to utilize the update. there needs to be some ipad ios only items that make the 4.1-4.9 releases compelling.

If the even tis focused on iOS 5 then I think it will be the "One more thing" like the redesigned Macbook Air was when they were talking about Lion last year.

 

[shingi70]

If the even tis focused on iOS 5 then I think it will be the "One more thing" like the redesigned Macbook Air was when they were talking about Lion last year.

i agree that the ipad will have the hardware and the software will be previewed for ios5. But the software should be here now. even though ios 5 wont be here until this summer, but 4.5 should have some substantial upgrades that make the software side better.

 

[MikeDTyke]

Looks like Baldimac was right... no point in confusing the masses by talking about iOS 5.0.


So now the question becomes, when will we get the developer preview?

9th March
16th March
23rd March
30th March
6th April