With Apple’s WWDC taking place in just under 2 hours I decided to put down my thoughts on what I expected to see today and also what I don’t expect to see today.

Here’s my breakdown of what I think will be covered today…
Mac OS X Snow Leopard – 40%
iPhone Hardware and 3.0 Update – 50%
Steve Jobs – 2%
Stats on growth – 5%
Miscellaneous stuff – 3%
Multi Touch Tablet – 0%

Steve Jobs
I’ll start out my stating I don’t expect to see Steve Jobs unless it’s part of the “One More Thing” piece. Apple has reiterated Steve is recovering well from a protein deficiency illness and that he’ll be back healthy as the acting CEO at the end of June. I also think it’s a positive for Apple to still be doing so well while Steve’s been gone.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard
My gut feeling is that about 40% of the show will be dedicated to the new features in Snow Leopard like going 64 bit, the new OpenCL technology, the new Quicktime X and of course some shiny new graphics user interfaces. With them releasing a final build to developers today I’m guessing they’ll set a launch date for sometime in August.

New iPhone Hardware
It’s all but guaranteed we’re going to see new iPhone hardware today. The question is how much of a visual change can they really make. I mean after all it’s just a shiny case with a glass screen. I suspect the phone will remain generally the same with a few changes. They may change the shiny back to more of a matte finish. Otherwise I think it pretty much remains the same.

The real changes will come from the inside. A new 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus technology along with video (some video editing functions), a front facing iChat video camera, faster processor, more RAM, 802.11 N wireless technology, some enhancements to help with turn by turn directions and a few other bells and whistles.

I expect the new iPhone to be announced today with a launch date of July 10th. This gives Apple a full month to build the hype and test the iPhone 3.0 software. Expect even longer lines for this launch.

On the software side I think we’ll see the features talked about at Mac World 2009 when they introduced the 3.0 update along with a few new ones that were kept secret.

Some of the most popular ones announced were landscape keyboard across most applications, copy and paste, tethering, MMS messaging, ability to edit documents, peer to peer connectivity, push notification for apps and many more.

I also fully expect Apple to launch the 3.0 update today or tonight. This gives them a more steady launch compared to last years iPhone 3G launch that was plagued with iTunes outages, MobileMe problems and more. This would be the smartest thing to do since this would give them a full month before what I think the hardware launch date will be which I previously said would be July 10th.

Multi Touch Tablet “Netbook”
Don’t expect Apple to jump into the Netbook market quite yet. Although I think they’ve clearly been working on a touch screen “Netbook” offering I don’t think it’s probably quite there yet. I’d suspect an announcement early next year after Snow Leopard’s been out for a few months and the Netbook market is a little more mature.

So what do you think will be announced today? What launch days do you think make the most sense? Leave a text or video comment below as I’d love to hear what you think.