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New iPhone to come before WWDC?
It appears to to just be a matter of time. A new iPhone is all but imminent at this point.
Apple has let iPhone sales slow down to a trickle as stockpiles of the first editions of the phone wane carriers are buzzing with rumors about where and when the next incarnation of the the iPhone will surface.
The accepted date now seems to be June 9, when Steve Jobs will take the stage in San Francisco for the Worldwide Developers Conference.
If history is any indication, however, the rollout may not wait that long...
Let us not forget the focus of WWDC: Developers. Or, as one famous Mac nemesis put it: Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
The WWDC keynote has famously been the showcase for the most essential tool in the Mac development world: the Mac OS. The stage is traditionally used to showcase upcoming versions of OS X and the features that will accompany them.
More recently, the iPhone SDK has been added to that list. Last year, the stage was used to explain the web-app process of development, and this year Apple has already promised to make the new iPhone SDK a major part of the conference.
The new iPhone would take away from this. Not only would it distract attention from what is traditionally Apple's showcase of software tools, it will also throw a hitch into the conference planning of attendees, many of whom are currently laying out their agendas with the understanding that there won't be new hardware to deal with. Hearing on Monday morning that there's new iPhone hardware to work with could alter more than a few schedules and lead to some very packed seminars.
In short, don't be surprised if the new iPhone surfaces well before June 9th.
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