The Macworld San Francisco 2007 Expo is drawing close. The bit of it everyone is waiting for – Steve Jobs’ Keynote – is on Tuesday 9th January at 9 am (or 5 pm in London – find for your timezone). The rumours are running wild as to just what will be announced. But a few things seem quite definite. It is expected that more details will be provided about the upcoming OS X 10.5 Leopard release and more on Apple’s “iTV” device that pulls music, photos and movies from your PC or Mac and puts them on your TV. Also quite firm predictions are the release of iLife 07, and an upgrade to the iWork software package (including a Spreadsheets program). Maybe there will be the true video iPod, and maybe there will be an iPhone. But probably in all honesty not.
So where can you find out exactly what is going on? Well all the Apple rumour sites are offering full coverage of the event. Here is just a pick of three ways to get the news.
World of Apple Live hope to offer a full audio stream live from the keynote. If this works and is not overloaded, then it will almost certainly be the best way to hear what happens.
MacRumors are offering two different ways to get the updates. Either you can watch their live site where there will be a constantly updated text commentary of events, or you can just bookmark this one post which will be updated with a link to the QuickTime video of the event which Apple post a few hours after the keynote has finished. The latter page promises not to have any spoilers on it – so you can watch the presentation (albeit a few hours late) still unaware of what has been announced.
Gizbuzz is not doing live commentary – however there will be summary posts of all the announcements as well as more in depth analysis about what they mean for the future. So watch out this Tuesday – whatever happens there will be plenty of news.
Update: Gizbuzz is building a series of posts on the announcement, and has also just recorded a podcast with some more in depth discussion. You can see all of these posts in our Apple category.
