∞ Steve Jobs to unveil iCloud, iOS 5 at WWDC keynote

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Apple announced Tuesday plans to unveil iOS 5 and “iCloud, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering” at the keynote address for its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco next week.

[ad#Google Adsense 300x250 in story]The company noted that Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who’s currently taking a break from day-to-day duties, and “a team of Apple executives” will be on-hand to deliver the keynote, which is scheduled for Monday, June 6, 2011 at 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

Additionally, Jobs and company will show off Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion.” Lion was first unveiled during an Apple event in October, 2010.

WWDC, which sold out in the first few hours of ticket availability, features more than 100 sessions presented by Apple engineers. The event is aimed at Mac OS X and iOS developers who want to learn how to create software for Apple platforms more effectively. Sessions include information on Lion, iOS and more.


  • Vamsmack

    Look at that! The date is even right ;)

    Really looking forward to a release date on Lion and to finally see what iCloud is.

    • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

      OMG OMG OMG, teh iCloud is upon us!

      Really? iCloud? I thought MobileMe was bad, but iCloud?
      Well, I hope they actually know what they’re doing and put their heart in it.

      Apart from that I’m mostly interested in the two new OSs and — although I’m going to file this under “A man can dream, can he?” — a new MacMini with Thunderbolt, goddammit.

      • Peter Cohen

        Yeah, the Mac mini isn’t going to happen, as you already know. Apple’s trying to set expectations by telling people ahead of time what’s going to be announced, I think.

        • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

          I know, and it’s a good thing in this case.

          I’m aching to buy a new Mini, but not until it gets thunderbolt-ified.
          Really curious to see what they have in stock for iOS, though.

        • Vamsmack

          Steve is getting cranky in his old age and just can’t deal with the stupid in the lead up to WWDC.

      • Vamsmack

        iOS 5 is going to be interesting. I am keen to see what they have improved/stripped away.

        iCloud may just be a music locker service but I would love it if it was a completely re done MobileMe set up, I really have no need for a music locker.

        • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

          I get that other people might find it extremely useful, but I don’t really need a music locker as of now.

          The thing that would make me give Apple even more money per year, is an improved iDisk.
          It’s useful, yes, but it’s also clunky and not very reliable.
          They should take a page out of Dropbox’s book and make it more useful to the general public,
          all while shaming them by implementing higher user privacy standards.

          • Vamsmack

            100% agreed if they could replace my need for Dropbox I would be one very happy guy. I don’t really use iDisk for the same reasons you stated above.

            What would really kick ass is if they actually put up a version of pages, keynote & numbers in the cloud which integrated with their desktop versions this would kick ass. This is me wishing for unicorns though.

          • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

            Two months ago I’d have told you that I don’t really see an actual use case for full-, or almost full-featured office apps in the cloud. But this semester has me formatting and reformatting different types of spreadsheets, text documents and presentations so often, that I’d be glad to be able to just send people to a site and have them edit those files and comment on them.

            I considered Google Docs, but it’s not even half-baked.

      • http://www.jphotog.com Eric Welch

        Seriously, after reading the article from Fortune about how Steve Jobs ripped the Mobile.me team a new one for the way they screwed up the launch, I’m betting this time they get it mostly right the first time. This new data center in North Carolina, and the new data center in the bay area ought to at least do some good for the speed of iCloud. If they can be at least almost as good as Dropbox, I would be very happy. My Dropbox is blocked at work, iDisk isn’t.

  • Anonymous

    Well, we’ve seen PC sales drop, tablet competitors falter, Android developers not making money, etc.–all while Apple just keeps chugging along with more and more retail stores opening, being enhanced, new computers (we have one–sweet!), and now new product announcements.

    This is great timing to give developers a shot in the arm, gear up for back to school sales (new phone by then?), and to leapfrog the competition.

    • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

      I don’t condone you suggesting that Apple intends to give drugs to developers.
      After four years of AppStore profits they should have enough money to buy it themselves ;)

      • Anonymous

        But if not for the drugs, how would developers stay up to code?

        • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

          Intravenous coffee drip?

  • Vamsmack

    I hope Lion will run on my Apple IIe else I may just never buy another Mac again.

  • Rich Prince

    MobileMe is years, light years behind in terms of development of features that are useful to users. This is one area of Apple’s products I just can’t comprehend. Apple is usually way ahead of the curve in designing great software and elegant hardware but MobileMe takes nothing that Apple should have learned from the evolution of Flickr, Google Apps, YouTube and other cloud/storage spaces and provide them for its PAID customers. In the simplest sense, you can tag, you can’t easily link, you can’t even add proper text and comments to images and movies stored on MobileMe galleries and spaces. MobileMe has always been way below Apple standards for development and I’ve paid them every year since Apple first started providing Mac.com and MobileMe.com and I’ve complained and made suggestions and their team just doesn’t listen to customers. Hope they really finally improve the entire environment for cloud computing

  • Anonymous

    I was talking with an Apple engineer last week, as I was preparing to blow $40K on Mac hardware and software for work, and he told me that in fact WWDC sold out in an hour. It went so fast that at first not everyone at Apple knew it sold out in that hour. Which is why there are different stories about how long it took, and how Google thought they had beat Apple with how fast the I/O conference sold out.

  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    I think even “Carolina” might have been a better name than “iCloud.”

    • Anonymous

      “What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.” -Juliet Capulet

    • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

      “Yeah, that’d like, make it easier for stupid Apple fanbois to make songs about it. Songs that would suck, just like Apple products suck.”

    • http://twitter.com/Brad_Strickland Brad_Strickland

      CLOUD!  uh… iCLOUD! <-read with scottish accent!
      iCloud is a pretty lame name. I hope the features rock!