Upcoming Apple Products

As WWDC 2011 inches closer, Apple announced a couple of things that they would be launching on the 6th of June, when Steve Jobs takes time out of his hiatus to return to Apple and give the keynote address. In spite of recent speculation that had all but confirmed that Apple would NOT be announcing an iPhone 5, I can't help but be bummed by that. Yes, for those who haven't been following tech news, there will be no new iPhone 5 for you to look forward to getting, so those who have their iPhone 3G's and 3GS's, go out and buy yourself the 4 now as there is no word on when the next generation phone will be launched. My guess is this is a direct result of the situation in Japan which caused a slow down in production for  a lot of consumer electronics and IT companies world over, and though Apple is not a Japanese company, it would have bought a lot of parts and components for it's products from there.

Back to announcements- what WILL be announced is iCloud, Apple's new music streaming device. Over the past week, Amazon.com has been rumoured to lose close to 3.5 Million USD for selling Lady Gaga's new album, "Born this Way" for only 99 cents, the idea being to promote it's own cloud based music software. Apple, not one for being left behind, will no doubt take on Amazon head to head and announce something new for it's devices, and probably add some bells and whistles to it's seriously lagging MobileMe platform. The press release also confirmed sneak peaks for the Mac OS X Lion as well as the iPad and iPhone's operating system, OS 5.
For those who are used to following Apple news, it will be surprising to note that the company decided to issue a press release at all. It is not like them to give away any news about any of their upcoming products, unless of course, they don't really have any to show off. I think this was done deliberately to manage fan expectation as well as take care of that ever volatile stock market that sends APPL stock into a tizzy right around the time of announcements. Smart move.. I just wish I had an iPhone 5 to impatiently look forward to.
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