Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference June 7 in San Francisco. The announcement by the Cupertino, Calif. company unleashed further speculation Jobs will unveil a new version of Apple’s iPhone. At the 2009 WWDC, Apple introduced the iPhone 3GS.
The consumer electronics giant noted the 2010 WWDC sold out just eight days after tickets became available. The conference, running through June 11, will focus on Application Frameworks, Internet & Web, Graphics & Media, Developer Tools and Core OS. But many onlookers instead are looking to a potential dust-up between Jobs and his well-known ire for Google’s Android and Adobe Flash.
“Watch out Android, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is preparing Apple’s response, and we suspect things could get pretty personal,” predicted 9to5Mac.
Friday, Google unveiled a new advertising campaign, likening Apple to the dictatorship depicted in the Cupertino, Calif. company’s classic ‘1984’ television ad. As that original ad was used to break-out the Apple Mac, Google sees an opportunity to do the same for its Android operating system.
“If Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice,” Google vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra told a crowd at the company’s own I/O gathering of developers. The Internet giant also unveiled GoogleTV to compete with AppleTV, and plans to create an iTunes rival for Android users.
[via 9to5Mac and AppleInsider]
