Come June 6 2011 and San Francisco's Moscone Center is going to go wild as Apple's head honcho, Steve Jobs will be back in action at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference to usher in all the new goodies from Apple.
It's a frequent practice for Apple to release a pre-event official press release of products or services that would be announced, but they have confirmed that iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud would all be taking centre stage at WWDC 2011.
Among the enhancements expected to be revealed are widgets and a completely revamped notification system.
Apple will also detail its new iCloud offering, and while the company did not elaborate on the offering, it is expected to be a suite of cloud-based services that will include a streaming music service backed by major record labels in the U.S.
iCloud, with backing from an all new data center opened by Apple, will allow users to access data like music from Apple's online space freeing up disk space on their devices. This is quite similar to Amazon's Cloud player that was also announced earlier this year. Looks like the cloud services domain also has some heavy competition in progress.
Apple said it will also provide new details surrounding Lion, the eighth major release of the Mac OS X.
The third item on the WWDC agenda is iOS 5 for Apple's beloved mobile devices - iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. You'll have to curb your enthusiasm a little until June 6, which is just around the corner, unlike the previous time when iOS 4.3 launched two days earlier than scheduled, this one looks too major a software release to be having the same fate.
With front-man Steve Jobs running the keynote again this year, in spite of his health issues, loyal Apple fans will go bonkers outside the center.
Jobs wasn't really expected to personally announce the iPad 2 either when it was launched on March 2nd, but he managed to make it there, too.
This might also be the first time that Apple's annual WWDC event will not have a product i.e. hardware launch. Then again Apple has neither confirmed nor denied the launch of the iPhone 4S.
Could Steve be keeping this one big announcement under wraps while teasing us with just software updates and launches? One never knows with Apple. We've got our fingers crossed.
