You know, as I so wonderfully put it the other day in describing it to someone - each year has three major holidays. First MacWorld in January, then WWDC in June, and finally Christmas in December. During the first two of these holidays, Steve Jobs steps onstage and bestows upon us a brand new goody or two for us to salivate over.

Today was that day. Today, at WWDC ‘08, Steve Jobs announced and demonstrated for the first time the iPhone 3G (shocker! surprise! amazing!), which absolutely no one knew was coming. No one. The basic things which we all kind of expected - an all black or white plastic back, 3G, and GPS capabilities.

Also, which to me is more interesting (as much as I like gadgets and gizmos like the iPhone, my main interest lies in computers), is the announcement of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. What we’ve got here, coming sometime in 2009, is an optimized Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with some snazzy fixes and a couple of core improvements. It sounds to me like this is a bigger deal than Apple’s letting lose - I’ve noticed that along with each version of Mac OS X, there’s been a slight decrease in stability. More force quits, more crashes, things of that nature. What they want to do with Mac OS X 10.6 sounds exactly spot on. This is something to watch.