Mix: Birthday, WWDC, Excitement
It is a big day today! On this paramount June 9th, the planets have aligned. It is my 23rd birt
hday today, and Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco, CA! With a big Apple event like this, it is customary for Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, to give a keynote presentation. Sort of an Apple “State of the Union” if you will.
Today, however, it is widely expected that Mr. Jobs will unveil a new iPhone. For this, I am very excited. The key feature that is expected of this new iPhone hardware is support for 3G cellular data networks. In other words, mobile broadband, which is relatively fast compared to the EDGE network currently em
ployed by the iPhone, which I have heard called mobile molasses.
Other rumors include GPS support and video conferencing, which would be awesome, but I find unlikely. My reasoning for that is battery life. I have a Garmin nüvi, and it’s battery can go for about 4 hours. Now throw a cell phone into that. Exactly. And as far as video conferencing, I chalk that up to battery issues as well.
There are plenty of other rumors about the new iPhone, but I will not cover them all.
The other big story for the developer conference is Apple shedding more light on th
e iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), the iPhone 2.0 firmware, and the App Store, which will allow iPhone and iPod touch users to purchase applications over-the-air for their devices.
All in all, today is a very exciting birthday for me!
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