WWDC 2008 - maybees aye maybees no

So Apple's WWDC 2008 is upon us this week, in particular the Steve Jobs keynote is today @ 1800 GMT. Based upon the incredulous hype over the past few days everyone is fully expecting the 2nd generation iPhone today, along with lots of other goodies like .Mac/MobileMe.

Me? I'm not so sure now...yes I wrote a piece last week all about how Apple could ship 3m iPhones worldwide and launch simultaneously, I still stand by it, just not the timeframe in which it will happen.

WWDC is a developer conference, not for consumers. Developers want to hear & learn about Leopard features, iPhone OS features and network with their peers who are also greating great apps.

Yes, everyone and their granny wants the 2nd gen iPhone however I think it's going to be a few weeks yet - 24th June is my bet (there we are I said it, 24th June is when the 2nd gen iPhone will be launched). I reckon the .Mac/MobileMe reworking will be central to this as well.

The new iPhone is a big, big event. Steve will want to demonstrate every single new feature to death (including how tightly integrated it is with .Mac/MobileMe with OTA syncing etc) - he simply can't do that in 90 minutes or less given all the other good news he will want to tell us.

So what will we get at WWDC today?

I think it will be something targetting Windows developers, maybe along the lines of the recently rumoured Apple Mac Fusion. I don't buy the form factor as it's too slim, however I do buy the concept.

I can see a lot of these being shipped to developers to let them try out OS X development at low cost (kind of like what the Mac Mini was meant to do), with perhaps a small number of variants targetting existing Mac Mini owners, gamers etc.

Again, only time will tell...