For those who care to know more about what Apple is up to, in the next 24 business hours, we will have all revealed.  Steve Jobs will present the latest in designs from Apple in the arena of internet based EVERYTHING.  They are officially revealing iOS 5, the operating system that drives the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (and the Apple TV) as well as officially rolling out the full preview of Mac OS X (ten) Lion, which is considered 10.7 by standard numbering reference.  Additionally they are most likely going to fire up that HUGE data center they were building in North Carolina in conjunction with the to-be revealed iCloud storage service.  iCloud is most likely going to replace MobileMe in the next 30 days since the direction that iOS5 and Lion will be headed in.  What does this mean to current Apple users, followers, worshipers, whatever you want to call the growing mass of people? Plenty.

MobileMe was the promis to make "information syching" between various Apple hardware seamless.  By design and concept it worked, by implementation -- let's just say, it was like building a house of cards on a paint can mixer.  I personally experienced iDisk failures, iCal sync nightmares, iMail mail disappear and reappear. I've seen Apple take down web hosting, which was originally a me.com service, and summarily execute it.  So much for personal site hosting.  Although there was a lot of good in the last year with how Apple responded to MobileMe's failings, iCloud is shaping up to be the "lesson learned" acknowledgement of a brand new, let's call it 3.0 edition.

There are many things that are being speculated and bantered about in Mac News and Rumors sites and article forums.  The excitement has been reserved, with most people scratching their heads as to why the revision to the iPhone is not coming out this summer.  Too many whiners asking why there is no 4G service being thrown in the revision that should roll out in the fall.  I, for one, look forward to what the potential is for a cloud-driven set of services in my life.  I use four different Macs, an iPad, and two iPhones.  I want consistency of content across ALL my machines, more than what MobileMe provides.  I would love to stream my music from an iCloud music locker of sorts.  Amazon and Google are both pushing their music service tech to an Android and desktop computer marketspace -- it's about time Apple throw down their hand and reveal what the general market of iTunes users will most likely move on to.

Tune in on Monday after 2:30 for updates.

Apple is holding back on releasing a new iPhone upgrade; most likely until fall.  The reasons behind this decision are obscured by the Apple shroud of secrecy, but there are some obvious reasons for this based on current market stats.  First and foremost, the iPhone 4 is still a hot product.  Why would they want to cannibalize on existing demand when they (and AT&T) sitting on a shrinking pile of 3GS product, and the iPhone 4 is still in demand. Additionally, Verizon's iPhone 4 is only three months old, and as users shift their feet from AT&T to Verizon, they don't want to deal with hesitant buyers who are holding on the iPhone 4 on Verizon because of the eventuality of the revised model.  In the past 5 years, Apple has typically rolled out version upgrades on their phones during the summer months, but this scheduling most likely changed to allow for the Verizon iPhone 4 to have breathing room to sell.

Also, the next revision of the iPhone is most likely going to be a minor revision year for the iPhone product.  Apple has already decided to not include 4G and LTE antennas on the next iPhone because of the demands of power on the new cellular technology.  The switch to 4G will probably happen in Summer/Fall 2012.  This leaves the model updates to the iPhone to be relegated to increasing the processor speed, possibly upgrading the body design to improve antenna signals and reduce the "Antenna-Gate" issues in the fall of last year, and lastly increase the storage capacity of the phones to double the current storage tiers: 16 to 32, 32 to 64, and 64 to 128 Gigabytes.  The big change that will roll out is the upgraded operating system for the portable devices: iOS 5.