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It's that time of year again - the bi-annual MacWorld orgy in San Francisco. It's four days of Mac heaven for fan boys, gadget obsessives and will vie with last week's CES to set the consumer technology trends for 2008.
The highlight is the keynote speech by Apple's polo-necked chief executive Steve Jobs, who will deliver an hour-long evangelical to the Apple faithful, complete with whoops of audience joy. He will reveal the devices and developments Apple wants us to buy into for the next year - oh, and something else...
There's always rampant speculation, and this year the hoaxers surpassed themselves with a 'draft' of Jobs' speech on Wikipedia - as we noted on Friday. Of course if that was the real draft, we'll never know - Apple's scriptwriters will have hastily concocted something new.
But if nothing else, it's a tidy summary of what we can expect from this evening's keynote announcements:
• the iPhone developer kit, SDK, complete with launch applications and widgets that will sell through the iTunes Store
• iPhone to launch in Japan
• a new, ultra-thin 13" MacBook Pro
• YouTube videos within iTunes
TechCrunch said the draft was fake and predicted that film rentals, the Beatles iPod and DRM-free music has to be on the real agenda.
I was particularly intrigued by the mention of Last.fm and Twitter in the 'draft', which were given as launch examples of applications and widgets.
Last.fm told me they are not due to announce anything and Twitter said they thought the draft was fake, although that's not a denial. And as MrProject noted on Friday's post, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams posted a month back that he was testing a secret Twitter client. Anyway, there are already unofficial applications out there for nobbled iPhones and the SDK is overdue. Bring it on.
Live blog from the Steve Jobs' keynote on this blog from 5pm.
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