Stephen Chinnadorai

When Steve hits the stage on Monday, June 9th 2008, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will be awaiting the launch of a new product, or several. It’s impossible to predict what Apple does behind the scenes — rumours are about as close as the general public gets. I’m going to list the most anticipated products expected to be launched, or announced, at this year’s WWDC keynote.

1. 3G iPhone

The 3G iPhone has had so many rumours in the past months that it’s almost certain the next iPhone will be launched, or at least announced on Monday.

It’s expected to have 3G (of course), GPS, video conferencing and most of the features that people expected in the first version (copy & paste, multimedia messaging, etc.).

2. New .Mac

Let’s face it, .Mac isn’t exactly the best value service for e-mail, or backup — in fact the only good thing about it is its perfect integration with the Mac. The new .Mac service is expected to include over-the-air syncing with iPhones, and could potentially be released for Windows users too.

3. Mac OS 10.6

This very recent, last-minute rumour was unleashed into the blogosphere only yesterday, and has caused quite a disruption. TUAW broke the “news” that a new version of Mac OS X would be announced at this year’s keynote, and could be named “Snow Leopard”. It is not expected to include any major new features, but rather an upgrade focused on ”stability and security” — isn’t that what you get in software updates?

4. New Macs

The Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and Apple Cinema Displays are overdue for an update — WWDC seems like an appropriate place and time to launch some upgrades to them. The MacBook Pro would most likely include a redesign and processor speed increase, the Mac Mini may also include a redesign and spec increase.

Of course, the rumours could be entirely wrong. These are just predictions, and nothing in this article has been said by Apple themselves. The WWDC keynote starts at 10 a.m. PDT/6 p.m. GMT.