WWDC 2012 — the pre-show

In a few hours, the Apple key­note will kick-start a week tailored for developers work­ing on Apple’s plat­forms. It will be the first WWDC key­note after Steve Jobs’ passing.
From what we’ve seen, the ‘speak­ers’ team headed by Tim Cook knows how to deliver a good present­a­tion while keep­ing Apple’s cul­tural val­ues in place.
Intriguing this year is the amount of undis­closed ses­sions sched­uled to hap­pen in the event.

From all that’s been writ­ten in Apple news/rumour sites like Macrumors or 9to5mac, it seems that we can expect some soft­ware and hard­ware announcements.

There’s a lot being talked about and I’m curi­ous to see how long will this year’s key­note be.

A few pho­to­graphs seem to indic­ate iOS 6 as the cen­ter course of the week. I guess Mac OS X Mountain Lion will also be part of the menu, but with such import­ant fea­tures like a new Maps app/infrastructure being announced, it doesn’t seem that the cat will be long time under the spotlight.

On the hard­ware side, where there’s smoke… there’s strong indic­a­tion that new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air mod­els may be updated with some machines por­tray­ing a ret­ina dis­play.
And after a loooong wait, pro users may finally get new Mac Pro models.

For a ‘one more thing…’ moment maybe we get to see some­thing related to the Apple tv.

We’ll see in a bit.