The following are community-driven predictions for the WWDC 2008 conference to be held in San Francisco on June 8, 2008. The "Community Consensus" percentages equate to the community's feeling on how probable an event occurring (or not occurring) may be. Click through to view the probabilities, and place a bet of your own!
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The Industry Standard's WWDC 2008 predictions are:
- New iPhone includes real GPS
- .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0
- Apple stock price soars above $200
- 3G iPhone officially announced within 60 days
- More than 200 applications available at iPhone App Store launch
- No next generation iPhones in the US before August 2008
- Apple rolls out mobile videoconferencing on iPhone
Related predictions:
- RIM's 3G BlackBerry for AT&T delayed
- Apple takes 50% notebook market share
- iTunes goes DRM-free by the end of the year
- Apple will ship 10 million iPhones in 2008
- Apple bundles unlimited iTunes with iPods, iPhones
- Apple releases iPhone Nano in clamshell form
Community suggestions for predictions (should we predict any of these events? Vote - time is running out!):
AT&T Press Release Delivers Reality Check for iPhone Cravers
Yesterday, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote speech to kick off apple annual World Wide Developers Conference. As usual many rumors flooded the internet up till the very minute of the 10 o’clock delivery. It was expected that, as promised, Apple would deliver a 3G iPhone to consumers buy the end of 2008. The release is scheduled for July 11. Jobs went on to say that the phone is now starts only $199. What he failed to mention is that the 3G data plan will cost an additional $10 dollars per month above and beyond the current EDGE network. If you look below the phone is actually more expensive to own then it was before. In Job’s keynote he tried to play it off as if they were reducing the cost when in fact they were increasing total cost of ownership.
iPhone iPhone 3G
Price of Phone $399 $199
AT&T Base Plan $59.99 $69.99
Total Cost of Ownership w/2 year Contract (setup and taxes not included) $1,838.76 $1,878.76
Within hours of the keynote AT&T quietly made a press release in regards to the iPhone that revealed the new pricing information.
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