In a matter of days Apple is rumored to be launching the next major upgrade to the iPhone platform, but a lot of positive information has been traveling the net in anticipation to what is consider to be the greatest Apple Event. This year WWDC is going to be an iPhoneWorld and with all the positive news about the platform there is not doubt that is a good time to buy some Apple shares before its price reached the $250.

Here is some of the good news about Apple:
1. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (June 9-15)
For the first time ever this event is sold out, this is where iPhone developers are going to show the world what they have been cooking since Apple launched the iPhone SDK in March. Stay tuned for amazing games and applications that will rock the mobile business, expect big names jumping on the wagon.

2. Haptic technology licensed by Apple (rumor)
Palluxo.com is reporting that Apple is in talk to licensed Haptic Technology from Immersion Corporation, the haptic technology provides interfaces the user via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations and/or motions to the user.

3. GPS on the iPhone
It is rumored that Broadcom will be the supplier of GPS for the iPhone, so if you lik the Google Maps in your iPhone just wait for GPS technology applied to the iphone and presented the Apple’s way. It is 100% guaranteed that this is going to be the most amazing GPS feature added to any mobile phone..

4. Handwriting Technology into the iPhone
Apple is rumored to be adding handwriting technology to the iphone. A chinese developer, Hanwang.com.cn created the application to allow Chinese character input on the iPhone, but the program works equally well with English input

5. Multi-Touch™ is a trademark of Apple Inc.
As noted by Macdailynews.com, Multi-Touch™ is a trademark of Apple Inc. and it gives Apple more guns to battle the icopiers.
http://www.macdailynews.com

6. More countries added to the iPhone distribution.
The last two months Apple has been signing agreements with Phone Carriers all over the world. That puts in the hands of millions of customers in Latin America, Africa, Europe and China.

7. .Mac = new Mobile Me
It’s said that Apple will relaunch the .Mac internet service and turn it into a mobile destination for iPhone users. There is a rumor that the domain www.me.com was bought by Apple.

8. Safari and Mac OS marketshare up, up
Net Applications stats for May shows two interesting thing, Mac OS marketshare is up to its all time high:

Net Applications’ May 2008 Operating System Stats:
Microsoft Windows: 91.13% (vs. MAY 2006: 95.09%)
- XP: 72.12%
- Vista: 15.26%
Apple Macintosh: 7.83% (vs. MAY 2006: 4.43%)
- Intel: 5.02%
- PowerPC: 2.81%
Linux: 0.68% (vs. MAY 2006: 0.40%)
Apple iPhone: 0.16%
Apple iPod: 0.03%
Playstation: 0.03%
Nintendo Wii: 0.01%
SunOS: 0.01%

And the Browser stats for May reveals that Safari is doing a good job too

Net Applications’ May 2008 Web Browser Stats:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 73.75% (vs. MAY 2006: 84.20%)
Mozilla Firefox: 18.41% (vs. MAY 2006: 10.55%)
Apple Safari: 6.25% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%)
Opera: 0.71%
Netscape: 0.62%
Mozilla: 0.08%
Opera Mini: 0.05%
Playstation: 0.03%
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer: 0.02%
Konqueror: 0.02%
Blazer: 0.02%
WebTV: 0.01%
ACCESS NetFront: 0.01%
BlackBerry: 0.00%

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