WWDC09 Keynote Disappointment

On monday, thousands and thousands of Apple disciples followed at least one of the dozens of live text/picture or maybe even video-streams on the internet, to see what products the peddler of fairy tales Phil Schiller was about to announce for the coming days.

Of course, everyone expected a new iPhone, not only since the major part of the Keynote was about the new iPhone OS 3.0, but also because there hasn’t been a device-update for a very long time. Anyway, I’m not going to resume the presented products, since I guess that everybody has already noticed the new set of MacBooks, the 3.0-features that were presented and of course the “new” iPhone 3G S.

However, especially by the last product I got totally disappointed. Actually, I was hoping for a major re-design of the iPhone’s enclosure, what would make it look more solid, sleek and sexy and not (as it looks now) like a piece of very expensive plastic. I mean, what’s actually new on that 3G S? To sum it up, they’ve over-clocked the hardware a bit and included some other memory-chips. Oh great. THAT was, what I was hoping for. Irony end.

I was at the Cafe Del Sol together with Andi, watching the MacRumorsLive-Site and hoping for over one and a half hour for a brand new, fresh and cool iPhone. But nothing. It’s just the same old thing, sold again pricier than it’s actually worth and included some new features that are mostly available from the new 3.0 OS and not introduced by any hardware-upgrades.

Altogether, we both were totally disappointed and hoped that the “new” iPhone was just a joke, but as it seems Apple was really serious about it. Uff.

However, enough bitched for today.