WWDC 2011 banners going up at Moscone Center
Apple is working to prepare San Francisco's Moscone Center West for the company's 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference to be held next week.
This morning, workers were putting the finishing touches on the giant white Apple logos that are applied to the sides of the convention hall, located in the South of Market area just two blocks from the company's flagship Union Square retail store.
Inside, a huge banner depicts Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud as being the three components adding up for WWDC 2011. Additional banners hung from the ceiling are still under wraps.
In previous years, Apple has kept some of these banners under wraps until the Keynote presentation.
This morning, workers were putting the finishing touches on the giant white Apple logos that are applied to the sides of the convention hall, located in the South of Market area just two blocks from the company's flagship Union Square retail store.
Inside, a huge banner depicts Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud as being the three components adding up for WWDC 2011. Additional banners hung from the ceiling are still under wraps.
In previous years, Apple has kept some of these banners under wraps until the Keynote presentation.
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Apple is working to prepare San Francisco's Moscone Center West for the company's 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference to be held next week.
This morning, workers were putting the finishing touches on the giant white Apple logos that are applied to the sides of the convention hall, located in the South of Market area just two blocks from the company's flagship Union Square retail store.
Inside, a huge banner depicts Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud as being the three components adding up for WWDC 2011. Additional banners hung from the ceiling are still under wraps.
In previous years, Apple has kept some of these banners under wraps until the Keynote presentation.
When do you think iOS 5.0 will be available to download after the announcement? How does Apple normally do this?
Also, do you think 1 more thing will be iPhone 4GS?
Update: on second thoughts, the iCloud icon looks almost like the power button from the pre-unibody MacBook Pros. Not sure if there's any relation to physical hardware, but...
Apple is working to prepare San Francisco's Moscone Center West for the company's 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference to be held next week. ...
That Cloud icon is kinda strange. The metal suggests a safe?
I quite prefer the current one.
Putting the iCloud icon on an equal footing with Lion and iOS 5 really reinforces that idea-- the layout suggests fundamental integration across Apple's product line.
let's hope it is as good as peanut butter and chocolate
How many iTunes upgrades will it require?
That Cloud icon is kinda strange. The metal suggests a safe?
I quite prefer the current one.
I definitely like the new one better; I'm just not sure what it stands for yet.
I am also really excited about iCloud. After having the streaming music thing knocked about for weeks (not excited) its beginning to look like Apple is taking a far greater and broader interest in the cloud and how it will integrate with existing services.
Hardware is becoming much less interesting these days.
"You got your cloud in my OS... You got your OS in my cloud"
let's hope it is as good as peanut butter and chocolate
How many iTunes upgrades will it require?
I'm just waiting for someone to associate it with the Rolling Stones "Get Off of My Cloud"
Interesting icon for iCloud. The Lion and iOS 5 are clearly from the login screen and app icons respectively, but the iCloud one looks like a brushed metal iDisk icon, perhaps indicating an app? They definitely look to be integrated somehow.
Update: on second thoughts, the iCloud icon looks almost like the power button from the pre-unibody MacBook Pros. Not sure if there's any relation to physical hardware, but...
Hardware? Maybe an iCloud server? A home server permanently synced to icloud?
When do you think iOS 5.0 will be available to download after the announcement? How does Apple normally do this?
Also, do you think 1 more thing will be iPhone 4GS?
A beta will probably be released to developers, either on June 6 or soon after.
No iPhone 4GS. iCloud, OS X, and iOS 5.
A beta will probably be released to developers, either on June 6 or soon after.
No iPhone 4GS. iCloud, OS X, and iOS 5.
I don't think we can rule out a surprise hardware announcement. Not necessarily going to happen, of course, but typically for Apple we'd never see it coming.
I can't imagine sitting with a drink and watching any other company's keynotes!! lol
Seems pretty clear:
http://www.cloudme.com/en
And toying around I made this:
http://tinyurl.com/3lrzng2
A beta will probably be released to developers, either on June 6 or soon after.
No iPhone 4GS. iCloud, OS X, and iOS 5.
I agree that the 1 more thing will not be the next generation iphone. But I have to believe that there will be a 1 more thing.
So, what are everyones predictions???
My best guess: new time capsule with icloud integration.
Most hoping for: iPhone nano (or whatever it would be called)
Lion * 5 * Metal Cloud = Voltron
I agree that the 1 more thing will not be the next generation iphone. But I have to believe that there will be a 1 more thing.
So, what are everyones predictions???
My best guess: new time capsule with icloud integration.
Most hoping for: iPhone nano (or whatever it would be called)
There won't be any iPhone, iPod, or Mac announcements. Apple has made that pretty clear.
Time Capsule with iCloud isn't a bad guess. There have been reports of Airport shortages. I'm not sure why it would be a "one more thing" though. It would have to be very impressive, and I don't know what that would entail.
People can say what they like about Apple, but nobody generates excitement like they do.
I can't imagine sitting with a drink and watching any other company's keynotes!! lol
You're right! I can't even imagine sitting there with a joint and watching to Ballmer Etc.'s off-keynotes.
I definitely like the new one better; I'm just not sure what it stands for yet.
Over on 9to5Mac (hate to promote that cesspool though), people are speculating that the new icon is a mash-up of the Sync button and the iDisk cloud. When you add to that the fact that iSync is missing from Lion it makes sense that it's a DropBox type icon/folder and that putting something in it syncs with all your iOS devices and desktop LockBoxes automatically.