Well, the big day is finally upon us. Tomorrow Steve Jobs will most likely announce the iPhone 2.0 with 3G networking and some other neat upgrades. I am in San Francisco for the epic event and will be sporting an excellent black Daring Fireball T-shirt that says "Your PC is a POS".
As it happens, I will be arriving fairly late in the morning compared to most everyone else. There are a few reasons for this. One, I was not able to get into SF tonight before the Sunday registration closed due to my delayed flight. Two, I actually just don't do lines. Everyone who knows me knows I hate lines. I even eat lunch at 11am everyday just to avoid lunchtime crowds and the associated lines. The line for the Stevenote at 10am PDT will be massive. I know there are some people planning on lining up at 3am. Um, they are insane.
I will be showing up around 8:30 or so, registering, and then making a beeline for the overflow rooms where they have nice video projection of the keynote in realtime, which is just fine with me. I don't really care about seeing Steve Jobs in person; I do care about being the first to know what is going down with the iPhone. I have a lot riding on this new version and I want to hear perfection tomorrow. I worked an extra job and a half for the last three months writing an iPhone app that completely depends on Steve Jobs and Apple not messing the iPhone 2.0 up. So if he says something idiotic like "We've decided to scratch the App Store and stick with web apps!" then you'll probably get to see a lovely news highlight on CNN about some dude vaulting onstage with a Daring Fireball T-shirt screaming "You wasted my tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime, you blue jeaned, black turtlenecked SOB!!!!!"
Right. So, anyway, I think the iPhone 2.0 is going to be everything everyone is hoping for and more. My guess is that the following will be included:
- 3G network capability. This is a no brainer. If it doesn't have 3G, then AT&T has been wasting it's time and money creating more 3G capacity.
Those are my high confidence predictions. These are less likely:
- Red color. Most Apple product launches of "2.0" or later versions usually include additional colors. Not sure they will do a lot of colors but I saw a mockup of a red phone and it was awesome. And besides, my wife needs a differently colored phone so we can tell hers from mine.
That's about it. In less than 12 hours, we'll know the answers. Time for some sleep.