6.20
Don’t Expect Many Tears
If sales drop because potential iPod Touch buyers opt for a $199 iPhone 3G instead, don’t expect many tears from Apple executives.
– John Gruber
From “WWDC 2008 Miscellany” on Daring Fireball
6.10
Steve Jobs’s Appearance Grabs Notice, Not Just the IPhone
“Steve Jobs’s Appearance Grabs Notice, Not Just the IPhone” (@ WSJ via DF)
I was wondering how long it was going to take until someone mentioned this.
6.9
Those Days are Over
All you people who bought your iPhone to improve your personal and business productivity, let me tell you — those days are over
–– Macworld Editorial Director, Jason Snell
Yes, gaming has come to the iPhone/iPod Touch. Jason Snell is liveblogging from Apple’s 2008 WWDC keynote.
A New Word?
Has Ellen Lee, in the process of writing, in the San Francisco Chronicle, about today’s expected iPhone announcement, invented a new word?
Macworld’s Dual Author WWDC Keynote Liveblog
I like Macworld’s dual author liveblog technique for the WWDC keynote.
Update: The authors are hangin’ with John Gruber, even. Very nice.
6.5
It’s Coming
WWDC! Yay! by Gernot Poetsch © & John Siracusa’s WWDC 2008 Keynote Bingo board
The next best thing to Macworld for Apple geeks has got to be Apple’s annual WWDC. A few years ago the conference, held every year at San Francisco’s Moscone West (site of last years’ Macworld admission fiasco – god I hope it’s not a repeat of that nasty scene), flowered into a second venue – joining Macworld – through which Apple regularly introduces new hardware and software.
This years’ near sure bet is the much rumored 3G iPhone but there are other possibilities being thrown around as well. It seems Apple always has something up it’s sleeve. I am sure this year will be no different.
The keynote will begin at 10:00 AM on Monday, June 9th. I am sure there will be some sort of live coverage, weather it be various sources liveblogging the event or a video stream (more likely, it will be the former) but there is usually a video of the event posted on Apple’s website the day after if you prefer to catch “His Steveness” in action, live, tossing out his reality distortion field into the audience … and beyond. One thing is for sure: don’t expect to be able to access Apple’s website from around Noon to, say, 1 or 2 in the afternoon.
11.29
A Faster iPhone
You’ll have it next year
…says AT&T Inc. C.E.O. Randall Stephenson. Sounds like as good a source as any.
Some say “this isn’t news”. Hokum, I say. It’s news because it is a second affirmation of the inevitability of a 3G iPhone and it’s news because, as vague as “next year” is, it is a more definite date than “sometime in the future”. It’s “next year” not two years or three years from now.
So, the only question that remains is when? Macworld ‘08 or the WWDC 08?
I wonder if Mr. Jobs is freaking out that Mr. Stephenson has a such a big mouth (talking about a better product that comes out next year right in the midst of the holiday buying season? Hmmmm…). Damn partners.