Apple’s WWDC on Monday

Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference kicks off on Monday at 7:00 HST. As usual, all kinds of rumors abound. It’s already been said that the new Mac OS X “Leopard” will be the main topic with betas being available for attendees. Supposedly there are “top secret” features in Leopard that Steve Jobs might be revealing during WWDC.

Could new hardware be possible? Usually WWDC is about software but you never know. A new metallic iMac is being talked about.

The iPhone is coming out later this month on Friday, June 29 so I don’t know how much emphasis this new device will get. Unless of course, Leopard has new integration features with the iPhone.

The latest rumblings for WWDC is the possible (and sensical) pairing of Apple and Google. Apple knows design (hardware and software), and Google knows stuff in the cloud aka the Internet. What happens if you couple the two? It’s already started on the iPhone where Apple built its own software interface to the Google Maps service. The AppleTV now can show videos from YouTube, another Google cloud service. Could Apple’s .Mac service get a serious overhaul with integration with other Google services? iWork could match up with Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Thinking about the possibilities are fun (especially for us .Mac subscribers)!

If you want to keep up with the haps at WWDC, check out the live event blogging provided by Engadget and Gizmodo.

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