AppleInsider Staff"Same story as last year and the year before, but we’ve confirmed with multiple AT&T sources that the carrier has now put a block on employees taking vacations in June," wrote BGR's Boy Genius. "The only time AT&T does a straight block like this is for iPhone launches. What’s interesting is, if AT&T is blocking June, perhaps the iPhone will launch a little earlier than July this year."
No further details were reported.
In years past, Apple has used its Worldwide Developers Conference in June to introduce new versions of the iPhone before making them available for sale between two and four weeks later.
Although Apple has yet to announce its 2010 developers conference, rumors have suggested that a span between late June and early July appears most likely. Interestingly, however, the past two WWDCs have been announced by Apple in March (1, 2), leading some to speculate that this year's event may take place at a later date given that we're halfway though April with no official word from the company.
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Maybe it's a bit earlier to smash WindowsPhoneSeries7 edition out of the park and months earlier?
That is right isn't it? Still a few weeks may not make any difference as WPS7 is still due much later in the year as far as I remember.
AI, it could be worth doing a timeline of all major expected mobile OS releases this year for an analysis piece on all this.
The entire AT&T company gets busier because of an iPhone launch? Seriously?
The entire AT&T company gets busier because of an iPhone launch? Seriously?
Maybe I'm missing some subtle sarcasm, but how could 1 million people walking into AT&T stores NOT cause the entire company to get busier?
Too bad Verizon employees are not also cancelling their vacations.
Really? The whole month of June? What about July? Surely mid to late June launch would push the busy first month into July. Could it possibly be released early June? That seems a bit early, but it would be 60 days from the 4.0 announcement, very similar to the iPad launch. If so it will likely be immediately available, if announced separate from WWDC.
As of now WWDC looks to be late June early July, unless they're giving a very last minute announcement.
I figured WWDC would center around iPhone and iPad OS 4.0, and be only days away from official release, and likely alongside the 4th iPhone launch. So it doesn't make much sense to expect on sale iPhone in June, until we hear WWDC dates.