True Apple geek here

Today was the opening of WWDC, and the keynote address by Steve Jobs.

I was on my way back to Chicago from Indiana, my son was driving and I was following along as if I were at the WWDC event. There was no live streaming video, but no matter. I was initially following on Twitter on my iPad. Then I saw a tweet for live blogging from macrumors.com, went there and saw blog updates as the address progressed. And I switched to my iPhone to follow the tweets.

Tweets were streaming through in so many languages... Japanese, Arabic, German, Spanish, Italian, French to name a few. It was so fascinating to see what people are thinking as Jobs was presenting the new features of iPhone 4 and the new iOS4 that accompanies it. (No, I don't speak any of those languages, I stuck to reading the English ones!)

It feels a little like that movie "What Women Want" when the main character can read women's minds as he walks by. Except in my case, it's men and women and they are half a country away and I can't see them, but I still can read about what they are seeing and at the same time hear what they are thinking.

So what is the consensus of the tweets? Same as what I knew before it even started - I WANT one.