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Apple has chosen to focus on five tracks for the conference attendees: Application Frameworks, Internet & Web, Graphics & Media, Developer Tools, and Core OS. The technical sessions, many of which will focus on Apples emerging technologies such as its iAd platform, are covered in more detail on this site. For those not involved in the development community, however, the conferences biggest news may be the much-rumored debut of the next-generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 4G by the media. A May 17 report by Taiwan-based Digitimes suggested that Apple would unveil the iPhone 4G during the conference; an analyst for the publication, citing unnamed sources, suggested that Apple could ship as many as 24 million of the devices in 2010. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has traditionally hosted unveilings of the companys products, most recently its bestselling iPad. While Apple has not confirmed the existence of a next-generation smartphone in the works, the past few summers have seen regular iPhone refreshes; that, in combination with a pair of leaked devices purported to be iPhone 4G prototypes, lends credence to the idea of the WWDC hosting the next iPhone generations unveiling. |
