It’s official: Jobs to speak at June 9 WWDC keynote

by Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! Although speculation was rife that Steve Jobs would speak at Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference, the world waited for official confirmation that His Jobsness would be there. He, and fellow executives, will showcase Mac OS X Leopard, iPhone 2.0 and the SDK, but there’s no mention – yet – of the 3G iPhone. If Steve Jobs wasn’t going to present at the WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC), it would have been a surprise of major proportions, but as expected, Steve will be there to spruik the good news about Mac OS X, iPhone OS X and all the long awaited SDK goodness. Jobs’ keynote will commence at 10am on Monday, June 9 in San Fransisco, where he’ll unveil new innovations for Mac OS X Leopard, and while this will no doubt be of great interest to Mac developers, what most will be waiting to see is more concrete information about all the juicy iPhone development possibilities. That and news of the long awaited, much rumoured, highly anticipated and hugely hyped 3G iPhone, with all its still rumoured features. These including a 3G chipset itself, a 5 megapixel camera, an internal GPS module, a slightly rounded new shape (presumably to accommodate the GPS module and internal antenna, as well as the possibility of a larger battery), among others, and all the iPhone 2.0 software innovations – although whether we’ll get the copy and paste features so many desire is yet to be see. Although Jobs will undoubtedly spend much of his keynote in talking up iPhone 2.0 software for both the existing 2G iPhone and the new 3G iPhone, the WWDC event itself will feature, “for the first time”, an iPhone developer track. This will have the usual in-depth sessions and hands-on labs that you’d expect, so developers can “fully explore the capabilities of the OS X iPhone 2.0 software, including the iPhone SDK and the App Store”. Apple also boast that the iPhone track will also “enable mobile developers to work side by side with Apple engineers to create amazing applications that leverage iPhone’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, animation technology, rich set of APIs, including programming interfaces for Core OS, Core Services, Media and Cocoa Touch technologies, built-in three axis accelerometer and geographical location technology to deliver truly innovative mobile applications.” While there will surely be a raft of new applications for existing iPhone users to download from day one of the iPhone 2.0 software’s availability, the rest of 2008 should see a rich flow of new apps appear on the App Store – once they’ve passed Apple’s rigorous scrutineering. So, what about Mac OS X Leopard? Please read onto page 2. << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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