Apple held their annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) last week and had both hardware and software related announcements during the keynote. For most people, the big thing was the new iPhone-model. iPhone 3G S, alongside the accompanying version 3.0 iPhone software pretty much stole the spotlight.

As an iPod Touch -owner, I’m not commenting on the new iPhone. I have very little experience with any of the models, so there’s not much for me to talk about. Except MMS-messaging. It’s there now, so the five guys who actually use MMS can now send all the messages they want. And the other thousand guys can stop complaining about the lack of MMS and come up with another missing important feature.

Now, the 3.0 software I can comment on, since it’s for iPod Touch as well. Haven’t tested it yet, so a review’s going to have to wait. I will say that it certainly looks promising. When I reviewed software version 2.0 and version 2.1 , there were two big issues I noted. First: no copy and paste. Second: native language keyboard for Scandinavia was clumsy as hell. The new version 3.0 software fixes these both. Not bad, I say. Apple’s been busy.

iPhone-less news in WWDC included a release date for the next Mac operating system, (version 10.6, Snow Leopard) and changes in the MacBook product line. Snow Leopard’s coming in September and is a bargain for existing Leopard owners, only $29. At that price, they’ve sure got my cash.

The aluminium 13″ MacBooks received hardware updates and were re-branded to MacBook Pros. In addition to minor increases in speed, two things worth mentioning happened under the hood. First, the new MacBook Pro -models have SD-card slots. I’m actually not sure what’s the point in adding an internal SD-reader, but I guess this shuts up some of those critics who always deduct points from Mac computers because all the other laptops have those. Although they still might complain because Macs still don’t have built-in slots for Compact Flash/MemoryStick/xD/Whatever. Because USB-readers are so hard to find and are enormously huge – or something like that. Still, the slot’s there and I’ve no problem with it.

Then, the second big change. For me, at least. Firewire’s back, baby! That’s right, the new 13″ MacBook Pros have a brand new shiny FW800-port. Originally Apple removed firewire from their new models when the aluminium MacBook-line was revealed, but now it’s back, and for me this certainly is most welcome. I complained about the missing firewire last October, and now I can finally stop crying about it.

Now that think about it, Apple corrected two big issues I had with two of their products. Just for me, right? Time to dance on the table and start saving money.