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Apple's most innovative minds seem to have been on a go-slow recently, with no properly exciting new products announced since Steve Jobs shuffled off this mortal coil. But at least the fruity firm can be relied upon to update its software on an annual-ish basis, which generally happens at the Worldwide Developers' Conference …

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  1. John Young 1

    I'm bored with it already... :D

    1. Rustident Spaceniak
      Gimp

      Dontcha know, there's an app for that!

      Or against, whatever...

    2. Benchops

      @John Young 1

      +1 for using "bored with"

  2. ItsNotMe
    FAIL

    "And life will be different as a result."

    Firstly...one needs to really give a rat's arse about the WWDC for any of this to matter.

    Secondly...as many folks don't give a rat's arse about it...our lives will not be different at all.

    1. Frank Bough

      Re: "And life will be different as a result."

      Yeah! Why would any Reg reader give a shit about the worldwide developer conference of the world's largest computer company?

      1. VinceH

        Re: "And life will be different as a result."

        "the world's largest most arrogant self officious annoying smug rotten uppity pretentious egotistic conceited self-important vain irritating computer company?

        FTFY. Eventually.

  3. Shagbert
    FAIL

    No tablets before 2008?

    I was supporting/managing a whole bunch of tablets in 2005; This one, for instance. The Acer C310 was another example, off the top of my head.

    1. Dom 3

      Re: No tablets before 2008?

      J. O. K. E.

      For the hard of thinking, they put this in - "[Copy-editors, check this – ed]" but for many of us, it wasn't really needed.

      1. Vector

        Re: No tablets before 2008?

        Yeah, but you didn't fondle those. You poked at them with a stick!

    2. Steve I

      Re: No tablets before 2008?

      Yeah - I had one of those. I carried it around in my jacket pocket and pulled it out on the train and effortlessly held in one hand to read e-books and swipe through emails and web-pages.

      Hang on - no I didn't.

  4. Kristian Walsh Silver badge

    You too can copywrite like a wanker...

    Six years ago we still used verbs. No longer. Today, a sentence fragment. A breathless, elegiac noun-phrase. Ellipsis, not substance. Language-like collections of words. Decoration without meaning. And misused conjunctions.

    Slow vomit. Again.

    1. heyrick Silver badge

      Re: You too can copywrite like a wanker...

      Because. Apple is. Epic. Like so wow.

      Or something. Maybe it is supposed to reflect how a fruityfan thinks at the idea of 1000 Apple bods and 5000 devs together in a room.

      Will there be an iOS 8? That's about the only thing of importance to me.

    2. Frumious Bandersnatch

      Re: You too can copywrite like a wanker...

      Six years ago ...

      Damn it! You beat me to it:

      An excellence-oriented '80s male does not wear a regular watch. He wears a Rolex watch, because it weighs nearly six pounds and is advertised only in excellence-oriented publications such as Fortune and Rich Protestant Golfer Magazine. The advertisements are written in incomplete sentences, which is how advertising copywriters denote excellence.

      (Dave Barry, In Search of Excellence)

    3. John H Woods Silver badge

      Re: You too can copywrite like a wanker...

      POTW

  5. ratfox

    Despite the Apple reputation for being secretive, everybody knew in advance that an iPhone was coming, and same for the Macbook Air and the iPad.

    But nothing is eagerly expected this time, so I wouldn't expect anything particularly new. Not even a watch.

  6. Sander van der Wal
    Angel

    Not that familiar with Apple before the iPhone, but is Jasper H. implying that all those iPod announcements during the noughties were exciting?

    Really?

  7. Baudwalk

    Apps for the phones of China

    Sung to the tune of "Oil for the lamps of China".

    Well, that's what my inner ear was imagining, anyhu.

  8. JDX Gold badge

    Not sure we NEED a new device

    There doesn't appear to be a gap to fill, unless wearables are going to take off - but I get the impression that isn't quite ready to happen yet (if ever). Both an iWatch and an iGlass could be upcoming but I don't think just yet.

    iPhone and iPad might not be amazingly exciting now tablets are commonplace but they are still premium devices in phone/tablet categories and selling hand over fist. Apple is with iOS devices where MS was with Windows and Office in 2007... people were unhappy with Vista and the Ribbon but the revenue stream was as healthy as ever. I reckon Apple have easily 2-3 years before they NEED a new Big Thing, as long as they don't screw up the existing product lines but continue to refine them. Boring, but profitable.

    1. jai

      Re: Not sure we NEED a new device

      Apple may have a few years before the need a big new thing, but the tech news websites can't wait that long! If they don't have some clickbait Apple-related headlines to publish, they might loose out on advertising revenue to the entertainment websites revealing what f**ktapes-star "celebrity" has had to eat this week.

  9. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
    Coat

    Tuesday 0900-1000 "This One Is Sealed" - Marina

    Given the location, it could be Venus. Or the man himself could be making a special appearance, in his Sealed coffin.

    1. jai

      Re: Tuesday 0900-1000 "This One Is Sealed" - Marina

      More interesting is the No Comment one at the same time, but in the big room that the keynote was in. Surely that's for further details on something that will only be revealed during the Keynote itself.

      Or perhaps it's Tim Cook, blatantly wearing the unannounced iWatch, standing in front of a 100" TV with an Apple logo on the case, wearing a pair of Ray-bans that you can just make out the inverted image of an iOS screen displayed on the inside of the lenses, but just spending an hour replying "No comment" to every question...

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    This is where a delay strategy pays off ..

    Tbe only viable reason for me to be possibly interested in their new stuff is a need to validate user experiences with our service, but in general I apply a 3..6 month delay before new kit is considered.

    This has a number of advantages:

    - we don't end up debugging new hardware

    - we can see if there really IS a business benefit to the new kit for us

    - we can ignore all the "must have it now" queues and the vast amount of marketing surrounding a launch. Yeah, yeah, we heard you already. Sell a few and we may take a look. Or buy the previous model a lot cheaper...

    It's actually quite a nice way to spend IT funds wisely - we know why we buy stuff :)

  11. Frumious Bandersnatch

    Much Apple

    So Now. Actually old, redone.

  12. Andrew Hodgkinson

    Now. With even longer. Pauses.

    Much as I'm interested in WWDC as a developer, I'm not particularly looking forward to the Tim Cook keynote. Over time he's developed inter- and intra-sentence pauses that are getting so long, he's risking heat death of the universe before he finishes the speech.

    Hopefully someone at Apple has noticed.

    ...It's getting ridiculous.

    ...Asked him to speed up, but somehow...

    ...I doubt it.

    <Thunderous, slightly relieved applause>

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Now. With even longer. Pauses.

      Shatnerian?

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    2007, not 2008

    Is when the iPhone was first sold, though you could argue it didn't become apparent how successful it was going to become until the 3G in 2008 and third party apps were enabled in the App Store.

    1. kmac499

      Re: 2007, not 2008

      Before the revisionist fruity historians claim again the iPhone was first and a world changer

      I was using a Sony Ericsson P800 followed by it's update P900 almost in the last century, 2002 ish, both Touch screen, both with a degree of handwiting recognition.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: 2007, not 2008

        Like it or not, the iPhone brought smartphones to the mainstream, instead of a niche of geeks and PHBs that used them previously.

        World changing isn't the same as inventing. And handwriting recognition is irrelevant to compares with the iPhone, since they don't support it or sell a stylus (though I imagine there are third party apps for those who care)

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: 2007, not 2008

        I was using a Sony Ericsson P800 followed by it's update P900 almost in the last century, 2002 ish, both Touch screen, both with a degree of handwiting recognition.

        P1i here - even came with a business card scanner app as part of the default load set. But the iPhone still kicked the crap out of it because it made all this goodness actually *accessible*. Be honest, how many of you know you can set up a conference call on your phone? That's totally trivial on an iPhone - just as an example.

        Apple fixed the single most ignored thing in IT: the user interface. THAT's why the thing took off like a rocket. Not that it didn't get a decent boost from the whole cult designery thing, but that by itself had been tried before.

        Having said that, Apple does piss me off by arbitrarily deciding they don't like something so they just leave it out. SMS message confirmation: still a missing feature. Email read flags: ditto. I don't care if they don't always work - it's existing functionality to please leave it be.

  14. Unicornpiss
    Meh

    WWJD

    I read the title as "WWJD" or "What would Jobs do" (unfortunately, Apple seems to have no clue)

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    "For five days, one thousand Apple engineers and five thousand developers will gather together. And life will be different as a result."

    Wouldn't it be hilarious if someone put a laxative in the water supply (sorry, the Kool Aid bowl)?

    No?

    1. Fred Flintstone Gold badge

      Actually, it's an excellent cough remedy. I'll leave you to ponder that one. Picture it.

      /tiptoes away..

  16. Alan Bourke

    WWJD?

    He'd take something else that already exists and jazz it up with great design and implementation, and then claim Apple invented it.

  17. Justice
    FAIL

    Wants list!

    "For five days, one thousand Apple engineers and five thousand developers will gather together. And life will be different as a result."

    Good! I have an iPhone want list. Y'know, the REALLY simple stuff that most Smartphones can do by default without the need for Jailbreaking.

    1 - Ability to change the voicemail number.

    2 - Carrier customization or at least update to include GiffGaff and other services that operate on the back of another network.

    3 - Saving animated GIFs to the photo roll - With the animation intact!!!

    4 - Change the default browser from Safari to ANYTHING!

    5 - Flash. Get over yourselves and bloody include it.

    Now GET BACK TO WORK!!!

    1. Justice

      Re: Wants list!

      Um... got a carrier update on Sunday.

      Can I scrub off 1 & 2 from the list?

      My iPhone carrier now says giffgaff and I can access my voicemail from the voicemail button.

      Thanks Devs? (are they reading El Reg???)

  18. Levente Szileszky

    "because tablets didn't exist" - huh?

    Drinking too much Kool-Aid recently...?

    Current tablets are straight descendants of laptops/notebooks with convertible touchscreens or at least on-screen handwriting-recognition, per Microsoft's 2001 (or was it 2002?) spec requirements for "Tablet PC" - essentially the very name of this devic e class was coined by Microsoft originally.

  19. JayXi

    Apple is Steve Jobs. Even though I am an Apple products user, I am not confident that Apple can be around long. There are many brilliant minds, but no one to keep them in the same direction.

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