Apple's WWDC will be hosted by Phil Schiller, not Steve Jobs

Posted by Katherine Hannaford on Wed 13 May 2009

Will Steve Jobs be the "just one more thing" this year at WWDC?

We all knew the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC for short, would fall on Monday the 8th of June in San Francisco, however the news that it will be lead by Apple's senior VP Phil Schiller is rather surprising: we, like everyone else, assumed Steve Jobs would be taking the stage once again after his six months' leave of absence.

It won't be the first time Schiller has hosted an Apple keynote, with January's Macworld address seeing the VP of Worldwide Product Marketing usher in new products such as the 17-inch MacBook Pro, iWork and iLife '09, and the announcement of DRM-free iTunes as standard.

Apple will be offering workshops for the iPhone OS 3.0 software and its latest operating system, Snow Leopard. WWDC is primarily aimed at developers, however it's also where Apple has chosen to unveil the last two iPhone models, leading the rest of the industry to think the third generation will be shown off in just a few weeks.

"Last June, we gave developers an early look at the powerful new technologies that form the underpinnings of Mac OS X Snow Leopard", Apple's senior VP of Software Engineering Bertrand Serlet stated, going on to promise for this year's WWDC "we will be giving our developers a final Developer Preview release so they can see the incredible progress we've made on Snow Leopard and work with us as we move toward its final release".

Whilst that's all fine and dandy, what we're really hoping for is a new iPhone. Oh, and an Apple netbook - but you can't wish for everything.

Link: Apple

REVIEW: Apple iPod Shuffle third generation