Apple has sent out invitations to, oh, all the right people inviting them to an event in Cupertino next Wednesday. The invitation shows SDK (black lettering on a white diamond shape, which the US highway signing system seems to suggest means "regulation"), Enterprise (blue, white arrow: "rest areas, food, fuel, hospitals, and lodging") and Software Update (green, white lettering: "informational signs, such as directions, distances, and places").
Possibly we're reading too much into the choice of signage, of course.
So we can probably deduce that it's telling us there is going to be an iPhone SDK, which we sort of knew already. Many are guessing that the Enterprise side will be some sort of native support for Microsoft's Exchange servers (presently the iPhone only does IMAP). As for "software update", well, dunno.
What's interesting, though, is that (besides missing its target for the SDK by a week, which implies that either Apple's software team are still being stretched thin by doing both Mac OSX and the iPhone's OSX or that they ran into some last-minute bugs, or that software doesn't respect deadlines) I've never before seen Apple offer a roadmap to something. Companies like Microsoft do it all the time, but Apple? No,it prefers to keep things secret. Which is why we're reduced to seeing what little clues in the invitation suggest. It's like being in Lost, I tell ya.
Am I wrong? Has Apple done this ever before?
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