segunda-feira, 7 de junho de 2010

Apple WWDC liveblog: new iPhones and software - and the rest

As Steve Jobs takes to the Moscone stage, we report on what's new, what's out, and what's puzzling

Charles Arthur


5.11pm: It's 9.11am in San Francisco, particularly outside the Moscone centre, and the lines of people off to Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference is growing.
Steve Jobs is expected to announce not just the new iPhone, and iPhone OS, but also - could it be? - some sort of trackpad-style keyboard.
We're also living in some expectation of a music-streaming service - to replace the Lala service which Apple bought and then closed down late last month. What if iTunes turns into a music streaming service as well as a music buying service? Would it work on old iPods? Would it run a subscription service (like Napster)? What would that do to services like Spotify? How might it work?
Alternatively, with the music streaming, would it only work on iPhone OS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)? Only on iPhone OS 4 devices? Are we going to have to update iTunes again?
Speculate away as we while away the minutes to ol' Turtleneck's appearance...