Early this morning and throughout the year, we’ve heard lots of rumors. WWDC is an event that’s really for the iPhone, and unsurprisingly, Apple made no announcement for a lot of potential topics.
I was surprised that Game Center (a feature of iOS4) wasn’t even talked about. Apple really wants to push social gaming, but it was missing. This was the most obvious glaring hole to me, and I’m not even a big iPhone or iPad gamer. It’s a fantastic idea that would really bring casual gamers together on Apple devices, and I expect to see more about this later this summer (probably in September).
Also missing was Mobile Me, which was expected to turn loose to the Mac public today with free and paid plans. A lot of people were really holding out for an improved Mobile Me service to take on Google, but that isn’t happening today.
Of the big reveal Engadget broke this morning, Apple has a bluetooth trackpad (Magic Trackpad) in mind that we thought would be one of the initial announcements during today’s keynote. This didn’t show up, and we imagine that Apple may talk about this product later in the year when they announce new iPods, or with a dedicated Macbook reveal.
Sadly, the iPhone isn’t coming to any new carriers. While Steve has handed AT&T plenty of backhanded compliments, he feels confident that they’re the only network robust enough to handle the amount of data the iPhone introduces into the wireless networks.
The Apple TV wasn’t excepted to show up today, and it didn’t. I’m not sure if we’ll see a new Apple TV until 2011, but this may be something that’ll be revealed alongside that bluetooth, multi-touch trackpad we mentioned earlier.
But the most surprising non-announcement had to be Safari 5. Update: It’s out. We’ve taken a look at it.
While Bing was mentioned as a new search provider for iPhone 4, Steve Ballmer nor Microsoft made a big appearance. We don’t know who thought Microsoft was coming on stage, but thankfully they didn’t show up. The suggest appearance pertained to both Bing and tools for Visual Studio.
Lastly, we also didn’t get any real date of an iOS4 update for the iPad, which is quite maddening because it’s such a great OS update. Steve did say it would be available later this summer, however.