14 DAY TRIAL // Michael Oh, president of Apple specialist Tech Superpowers, believes Apple needs to introduce some pretty revolutionary stuff at this year’s edition of WWDC. He argues that, with the iPhone 4 being the centerpiece of the event, the device should boast some amazing capabilities, or at least compete with those provided by Google’s mobile OS - Android.
"In terms of features on the phone, your guess is as good as mine. If Apple comes out with a phone that is just as little bit better than the 3GS, people are going to feel Google is innovating quicker than Apple, which is what the analysts are batting about right now," Oh said, according to eWeek. "If they come out with something revolutionary, something like what [Google's mobile OS] Android is bringing to the table, wireless syncing—that would be huge."
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Oh forgets to mention another key factor affecting Apple’s WWDC 2010 keynote address set to be delivered by CEO Steve Jobs on June 7 - the two leaked iPhone prototypes. Sure enough, Apple cannot be very happy having lost its element of surprise with not one, but two pre-production iPhone 4 units getting in the hands of people with connections to tech-websites and forums. While it may look like it’s good for publicity, recently unearthed court documents revealed that the publication of photos of an iPhone prototype was "immensely damaging" to Apple, representing a "huge" loss. Apple officials reportedly told police investigators, "Sales of current Apple products are hurt," because of the published details about its next-generation iPhone model. Moreover, at the time of that report, Apple had lost only one fourth-generation iPhone prototype.
Back to the eWeek report, "If with the 4G iPhone they talk about services like streaming, then they're starting to do some exciting things," Oh added. "That's the real key to WWDC—how is Apple going to come out of this Apple versus Google battle?"