WWDC 2008

Seth Weintraub
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March 14, 2008
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Apple today sent out invitations to WWDC 2008.  Macintosh? Check.  iPhone?  Check

So what does 'A landmark event.  In more ways than one.' mean?  And why are there two Golden Gate bridges diverging into a poorly Photoshopped landscape?

Let the speculation begin!

(Just for the record, we think 'Landmark' has to do with the location-based APIs in the iPhone SDK)

 

Comments (27)

Sander (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 2:06am

 The reason why there are tow Golden Gate Bridges is, I think, because now you can choose to develop either for the iPhone or for the "real" Mac OS

Stian (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 2:07am

2 bridges, 2 ways. Mac and iPhone.

Not to hard to understand. No hidden meanings here.

Reading the text.... (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 2:09am

 "So what does 'A landmark event.  In more ways than one.' mean?  And why are there two Golden Gate bridges diverging into a poorly Photoshopped landscape?"

 

"Everything Mac. Everything iPhone [...] With the development opportunities of the iPhone platform added to those of Mac OS X Leopard"

Why the question when the aswer is obvious?

 

Apple, whith the iPhone SDK included in the last XCode, opened a second platform of his own for developpers to develop for....

If AppleTV stops to be a Hobby and Apple delivers a SDK for the Apple TV, you'll have a third goldengate (especially if they add a Tuner with recording feature as sugested by the last published Apple's patent)

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 2:10am

 but there is already tools out there to develop for both platforms...so it would not be a "landmark event" (techically the SDK launch would be considered the landmark event.

 

its obviously a new apple store that will be built next to the golden gate bridge, and will look exactly like the golden gate bridge...but you can drive through and shop with apple at same time. DUH!!!!!

admin | March 14, 2008 - 2:33am

So far, 4 comments on the 'obvious' answer, all different.   

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 3:41am

 ...will admit that he's really the fake Steve Jobs and that the real CEO has been living in a hippie commune in Thailand for decades.  There'll be a landmark in case you'd like to visit the real Steve.

Oh Blah Dee Blah Dah (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 4:26am

Two ways to communicate with the iPhone. It could mean the current iPhone and the 3G iPhone!

aquin (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 5:29am

New iphones will have gps built-in.

Anonymous Cowherd (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 5:35am

maybe it's an implication that they are converging, rather than diverging?

 

maybe it's MacOSX going full-touch. Maybe the next bit of Apple hardware will have a huge surface for the keyboard, which will take traditional key inputs and also gestures.

Joe (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 7:32am

iCameraRaw plus iPhotoshop..... Apple's totally pissed at Adobe. I hope it's a pixel pushing photo-editing app with a nice SDK for plug-ins.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 11:22am

Apple and Adobe have secretly agreed to a merger and this will be announced at the WWDC.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 3:02pm

 there will be new notebooks with full touch panels where the keyboard is

Prognosticator (not verified) | March 14, 2008 - 4:19pm

There are two real possibilities in the picture.  The boring ones are well covered here.  Two platforms.  Divergent paths to get to them. That would be a pretty reasonable assumption given what we know.  But every now and then Apple kicks us in the butt with the things we haven't seen. Intel.  iFund. Things that are gamechanging but not seen coming make so much sense when you see it.

There has been so much hullabaloo about the iPhone as a platform.  Apple had to devote so many resources to even get the phone off the ground and has been distracted in updating their macs. (Towers and laptops are lagging and Leopard was late)  Phones really aren't Apple's business, the hardware and software is.  And I think Apple is getting bored in dealing with phone companies in every country to make things happen.

So.  How about a little spin off?

Yeah.  The other bridge I think is another company about to be born.  A phone company that Apple can partner with, rather than have to do all the dirty work and details itself.

I said it.  I can't wait until June.

 

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 15, 2008 - 6:50am

maybe Apple is going to allow users to install Windows to their mac and dual boot!

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 15, 2008 - 12:28pm

Why is it that I see the two bridges coming together/ Why do I see it as the product we've all been waiting for? a computer which has EVDO or 3g built into it? Why do I see something like a touchscreen imac as a possibility?

I can even see a mobile tablet Mac coming out. This is the begning of the phone and the PC coming together as one product even more than the iphone.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 15, 2008 - 4:00pm

I second previous Anonymous Coward's opinion

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 15, 2008 - 4:54pm

Has anyone found any hotel group rates that Apple has mentioned for WWDC? Unless they just haven't gotten around to it yet...

admin | March 15, 2008 - 7:58pm

Go off the board and stay at one of San Francisco's Boutique Hotels like the Triton or the Rex.  You'll get  a much better experience overall.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 16, 2008 - 7:45pm

That is my guess.... Apple will include APIs, drivers, etc., to run Windows apps natively. No more need for Parallels, Boot Camp, or Fusion. See:

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/12/rumor-leopard-i.html

for more information.

just_a_guy (not verified) | March 16, 2008 - 10:07pm

what would you say if apple bridged the gap (that's why the bridges are coming together, and they made perfect form of Wine, that stopped viruses in their tracks?

Stew (not verified) | March 17, 2008 - 3:19pm

You guys are dumb the golden gate bridge is a landmark and theres 2 of them which means that there are goin to be 2 big things announced at WWDC

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 20, 2008 - 4:53pm

iMac Touch - with 24 inch touch screen. Still with traditional keyboard as this is faster for input of text.

the dude (not verified) | April 07, 2008 - 12:30pm

Touch screen macs won't be out for another couple of years, OSX isn't developed enough for it yet.

"A landmark event. In more ways than one" - GPS on the iPhone and for 'one last thing' Steve unveiling plans for the new Apple campus

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 04, 2008 - 5:57pm

"leopard" and "snow leopard"