There is, as usual, a swirl of speculation this morning as Steve Jobs prepares to make his announcements at Apple's WWDC in San Francisco tonight. As Richard Wray and I reported this morning, our sources are filling us in on what the expected iPhone 2.0 will look like: they say it's going to be smaller, cheaper through a subsidy, most likely 3G (though problems have been reported) and probably available in this country next month.
Charles has already made his predictions, and we'll be keeping track of it and pondering what it all means here on the blog later tonight, but in the meantime there's plenty of weirdness to keep things going.
Among the many chin-scratching reports on Apple, the iPhone and What It All Means is this little number from Dow Jones, which looks into patent applications from Cupertino.
Except - as Martin Stabe pointed it out briefly on his blog - it all goes a bit weird.
Just how will Apple meet expectations? Using the patent application as a guide, Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple's standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that's kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos.
Apple has said that Adobe's flash media player, which is on hundreds of other phones, doesn't perform up to Apple's standards for the iPhone.
Flash memory? Adobe? Right now I can't find the patent application in question, but hopefully I don't need to explain why that's seven shades of wrong and back again. It seems everyone's head goes a bit squiffy when they start writing about Apple... let the juggernaut roll onwards...
