FROM: Javamancy, the Weblog
You’ve probably heard from friends that they’ve momentarily toyed with the idea of getting an Android smartphone, but after playing with several different models, they inevitably decide to wait and see whether Apple [AAPL] will finally release their iPhone on carriers other than AT&T [T].
Here’s yet another opinion about the issues with Android.
Is everybody thinking the same thing at this point? Hmm…
So, it seems that the technocrowd buzz revolves around more rumors about the end of the AT&T [T] exclusivity over Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone, and the heavily anticipated offering of the same smartphone by AT&T’s rival, Verizon [VZ].
The timeframe for the iPhone being offered to Verizon customers appears to be January 2011.
Of course, humorous (and sometimes, not-so-humorous) parodies abound when it comes to tech foibles and missteps. The latest blurbs about Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone 4 reception are certainly no exception.
And you may have wondered when the next Hitler (or Hitleresque) parody would pop up. Well, wonder no longer: Mike Ingram Jr. has posted one on his Posterous account.
You’d think it was an early Christmas, or something like it, judging from the lines of (im)patient iPhone “wanters” (or perhaps, “iWanters”) outside of the various Apple Stores across the country, such as the one in the Clarendon district in Northern Virginia. It was only a few months ago for the iPad rollout that the iWanters congregated for a new Apple [AAPL] device. Oddly, there did not seem to be any iPaders or iPod-touchers lurking in the line… was this a strictly iPhone-only iWanter bunch?
Once the stores opened, the flocks of people began receiving their treasured smartphones as quickly as the customer service staff could hand and process them out. And, as a plus, given today’s mega-swelter in the Washington, DC area, some iWanters also received a free bottle of water. 
Finally, the numbering scheme for Apple’s [AAPL] flagship communications device has been simplified again, for the general masses. 
Soon, the news about the new iPhone 4, which had the hubbub earlier this year “pop up” about a lost proof-of-concept model (or was is really a prototype, when all is said and done about it?), will be rolling out in a press conference from Apple later today.
In addition to the device itself, there will most likely be some mention of the iPhone OS 4, the new operating system slated for release to not just the iPhone, but also the iPod touch and iPad platforms.
If many of the Mac-native or even Java client apps aren’t being reassembled into iPad apps, then the market for cloud-centric Web apps may be much-much-much larger and more significant than people have previously thought.
Remember when there initially wasn’t a publicly available iPhone SDK for developers to build iPhone and iPod touch apps?
So…
The reason there’s a comfy chair onstage is, of course, that Steve needs a place to lounge while showcasing the new Apple [AAPL] device: the iPad!
(Remember those misspellings over the past several years where people would mistakenly call the iPod as the “iPad”?)
Steve Jobs is on the stage for the Apple [AAPL] presentation…
Are we going to get that CDMA version of the iPhone? That would be a big win for either/both Sprint [S] and Verizon [VZ].
Sure, the Android based phones have been out for quite some time now…
But the curiosity and excitement around Google’s [GOOG] Nexus One smartphone seems to be reaching a, sort of, fever pitch.
Makes you wonder whether Apple [AAPL] will have some new iPhone/iPod touch news to deliver that will take some of the shine away from Nexus One… Or perhaps the hotly anticipated news about a Mac tablet form factor will grab the spotlight…
A few days ago, Cali mentioned on her blog (and tweeted about it, too!) that her poor ol’ iPhone has finally bit the dust.
Will she (get that iPhone 3GS that she’s been jonesing for)? Or won’t she (give other smartphones a shot)?