The World Wide Developer's Conference for Apple today, which means of course that the computer industry is abuzz over what will be announced at Moscone West this morning.
Pre-conference photos show banners shrouded in black cloth.
The Apple Store is still up, which means that it's highly unlikely any new product will be revealed today, so I'm going to bet that those banners are hiding OS X Leopard / iPhone features.
Last year they released the Mac Pro, along with an hour long demo of the upcoming Leopard OS. This year they're going to rehash all the new hardware releases they've recently had, their commitment to being more green, talk about their new Apple Stores, mention their recent AppleTV changes (YouTube/Google) , do a quick overview of what they showed off last time on the Leopard demo, just to refresh people's memories, and then dive into the new top-secret features of Leopard. They're going to talk about the iPhone. Jobs gave the demo of the iPhone at MacWorld 6 months ago, but this time he's going to announce that they're going to open it up to third party developers to write small programs. I don't forsee any big surprises, partly because the iPhone is coming out in 3 weeks.
That's my guess -- we should know by noon how right (or wrong) I am.
Update: 10am - Apple Store is down -- perhaps we will see a new product after all.
EA has taken the stage and is showing off their games for the Mac. (That's one that I saw coming -- games on the PC are a dead market, due to the awful Vista gaming cripple.)
Update 2: I may have been harsh in saying that Vista cripples gaming -- it's just that gamers, on the whole have not been very enticed to move to Vista due to incompatibility problems with the drivers and installers for gamers. That coupled with the additional "bloat" of Vista have made games a (currently) better experience on XP.
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