Apple WWDC 2012: What can we expect?
Summary: From hardware to software, and all things shiny, Apple WWDC is the company's opportunity to show off to the world what it has to offer for the year ahead.
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From hardware to software, and all thing shiny, Apple's WWDC is the company's opportunity to show off its offerings for the year ahead -- primarily to developers, but also to the world.
But typical Apple, nobody really knows what's coming. We can guess and speculate, but until the week is over only then do we have a rough idea of what's to come.
Here's everything we could think of in one place: from 'definitely' to 'maybe,' to down-right 'who knows?'
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"Worlds most advanced mobile operating system"
Anyone can say anything...
Apple fanbois chirp endlessly that Apple is self-driven and is not influenced by competitor products...nobody operates in a vaccum on the earth even if some people try to push that message.
Agree....
"The" corporate bully?
I'm not defending Apple. They've lost any claim they might have had to any moral high ground on the subject of respect for intellectual property. But singling them out as "the" corporate bully of the tech industry, as though they have some kind of lock on that kind of reprehensible behavior, demonstrates a prejudicially and determinedly cultivated lack of perspective.
Facebook integration???
And Apple are talking about integrating at the OS level.
This reminds me of Microsofts approach to Windows 8 to make it like the iPad.
This is a new direction for Apple, and a wrong one in my opinion. The reason that facebook was never integrated whilst Twitter was is probably down to Jobs saying "Not a f**king chance".
Now he is out of the picture, you just have half beans jumping on the latest buzzword to include in the marketing tick list...
"Facebook integration" - It screams on the blurb sheet.
"F**k that then" - Says the potential customer.
Guilty by association
Ditto that. I mean, ever since Mr. Zuckerberg's open and unabashed disdain for Facebook users became a matter of public knowledge, most of the folks I know who have any self-esteem have bailed out...including me. From my perspective, having a Facebook account is tantamount to admitting that I enjoy having my personal information monetized and my privacy abused by someone who thinks I'm an idiot for letting him do it. And if I continued to do so, he'd be right. Well, he's wrong.
iOS 6, Apple TV, Macbook...maybe iPhone 5....
But the Apple TV, I mean a REAL TV...that would be another punch in Ballmer's fat gut.
Yes, just like the Pippin totally dominated over the X-Box
Back in reality, Apple going into the TV business would be an unsuccessful mudfight against entrenched hardware companies that already have great products at smaller margins. Trying to convince the public to pay double just for an OS on a TV is ridiculous.
No apple Tv
IOS6 to run on the iPhone 3GS
It will also p155 in the face of Nokia Lumia 900 users unable to take an upgrade to Windows Phone 8 in the fall.............
Who says?