On June 7th, 2010, at the sold out World Wide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs announced a slew of improvements to the operating system that runs on iPod Touch devices, iPads, and iPhones. Many of those updates were specifically designed for the highlight of his keynote address: the new iPhone 4.

While a few specifications of the new iPhone were previewed during the infamous Gizmodo episode, many of the new features weren’t obvious out of context. Here are a few of the important iPhone 4 and iOS 4 (the new name for the iPhone operating system which runs Apple’s family of mobile devices) improvements…

- Nick Gold

If you followed the rumors that circulated around Apple’s mythical post-Newton tablet computing device for almost a decade, there was something surreal and sublime about the moment when Steve Jobs finally unveiled it on stage. But now that everything’s out in the open, what is most interesting is how few people understand just how profound, indeed radical, the iPad is.

I’d like to talk a bit about why the tablet—err, iPad—impresses me so much, and why you need to give Apple the benefit of the doubt on this one. This is something much bigger than it might seem on the surface, and is in fact a hint at the future of computing in general. To see where we may be headed, however, it would serve us well to take a look at where we’ve been.