Apple just announced that on Wednesday, January 27, at 10am Pacific, it will unveil “our latest creation.” The picture at the top comes from the invitation sent to select journalists, as shown at Engadget. The rumors are that Apple will announce a new tablet computer, but I am just as interested in rumors that Apple will also preview version 4.0 of the iPhone operating system. We haven’t seen an iPhone update since September of 2009, which is a long stretch for Apple not to update the OS. Many have speculated that Apple has been waiting to release an update to the iPhone OS to version 4.0 until it was also ready to preview a new tablet computer because the iPhone and tablet operating system will share system code.
All of this is speculation for now, but my hope is that we will have some major iPhone news next week.
Hi Jeff
Whilst you’re hoping for iPhone news, I think the world is expecting iSlate news! 🙂
On the iPhone side – it’s going to be interesting how Apple react to the Nexus One and Android, will they:
Ignore it, end up with the top end of the smartphone market whilst the majority goes to Android.
Drop the price and loosen the App Store procedures to retain customers and developers rather than have them move towards Android.
If, as I expect, there is iSlate news announced we’ll probably get some idea of how Apple’s thinking… if the iSlate is closed, proprietary, locked then the future is clear – Apple just want the niche at the top of the market and the iPhone will continue to be hobbled by Apple and Android will take the majority of the smartphone market.
If the iSlate tends towards the open… well then I think things are going to get very interesting…
Where’s my checkbook?