Late winter, early spring... it's that time of year where the entire technology world begins to wonder about what Apple has planned for the next version of the iPhone, which, come late June will be the device that sets the trend for mobile technology into the next year. Like it or hate it, the iPhone is the standard that all Android, WebOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phones must either match or surpass to be taken seriously. So what will this phone feature? It's impossible to tell until Steve Jobs takes the stage to tell us, and even then there will still be many unanswered questions until it gets into the hands of the consumer. Even though the release of the next generation iPhone happens like clock work, I'm still constantly asked questions like "when will the next iPhone be out" or "should I wait to buy it?" -- This article serves to help anwser those questions right now. By the way, if you thought I mistaken when I said Steve Jobs will take the stage, let me clarify:

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It's been somewhat disgusting to watch tech blogs and Twitter today discuss Steve Jobs' health based off rumors and unconfirmed photographs. Let the guy get better and give him some privacy. I'm not going to lend more space to this because aside from what the shareholders and consumers need to know about the absence in his role as CEO of Apple, what happens in his personal health is his business. Why give credence to grocery store check out stand trash? Can we all agree to leave the rumors to the release of the products, and the facts to the health of a human being?

Anyone want to take bets on if his new house will be a giant glass cube designed by Jon Ive?

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A mansion owned by Steve jobs in the hamlet of Woodside, California, is to be demolished soon. Steve Jobs has been after a permit for demolition of his empty 17,000 square-foot house for over a decade now, and it has been a subject of great debate in the area. MarketWatch reported,

“This small town, one of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest enclaves, is giving the Apple Inc. executive his long sought-after permit to raze his Spanish Colonial revival mansion”

The home is dilapidated, and some claim it’s in this state in the hopes that the neglect would have eventually demolished it anyway. Jobs initially purchased the home back in 1983, and he lived in it for around ten years. Since that time it’s been empty almost all of the time. Read more at www.macgasm.net