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theApple Inc. launched an updated iPhone at its annual gathering of software developers this last June, its biggest competitor was the iPhone that Apple had introduced the year before.us_tec_apple_s_counterpunch

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That won't be the case at this year's conference, which opens Monday. Now the next version of Apple's touch-screen phone has to outdo a slew of rival gadgets — including one that comes out this weekend — that emulate or improve on some of theus_tec_apple_s_counterpunch

 iPhone's best features.

Apple's ability   was to appear well  style ahead of its competitors. Apple's shares have highturn to73 percent since March. Just two years have after entering the fray, Apple enjoys a 19.5 percent share of the smart phone market, according to IDC, and investors are more betting on a continued run of success.us_tec_apple_s_counterpunch

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"Apple,have a practical standpoint, has consistently tried to stay one to two years ahead of the competition on both the hardware and software levels.AppleUsually the event is the company's stage to demonstrate computer software changes that aren't widely relevant until programmers use them to build neat new applications. Last year, though, Apple used the conference to announce the iPhone 3G, and many Apple-watchers expect the Cupertino, Calif.-based company to produce another version made this time, and to reveal more about the new iPhone operating softwareinstarting it previewed in March.

 rival phone makers said to other phone coming to paired I phone galvanized by Apple's challenge have responded with formidable touch-screen devices of their own, including Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Storm and T-Mobile USA's G1, which runs Google Inc.'s Android software. Palm Inc. is coming out with its new Pre on Saturday and promises to follow with similar devices using its flexible webOS operating system.

The Palm Pre wowed many reviewers that with its slide-out keyboard slice in and ability to run more than one program at once time, which the iPhone cannot do. So how can Apple keep the edge in mojo? Some wished-for featured that include a faster processor, more data storage settings, video recording and an auto-focus camera. us_tec_apple_s_counterpunch

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Smart-phone competitors are not only but also the ones crowding Apple. Over the past year, another category included in of small wireless computers has blossomed: "netbooks," which are the light little laptops are designed for checking e-mail and surfing the Web on the go. Some costwas little as $100 with the cellular data planwas which beats the starting $200 price of an iPhone. Apple has said it isn't interested in to making has sub-$500 notebook computer with a small screen and keyboard, but that could changethem.

Apple also will giveto 5,000 developers in expected at the conference a closer look at Snow Leopard, the forthcoming update to its Mac OS X operating system, just as the PC industry is gearing up for the Oct. 22 release of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 7.

Microsoft tried to give Windows 7 a more than attractive user interface, an area where Apple has long timeseen as the leader. After years of stinging Apple ads that pit a hipster Mac character against a hopelessly dorky PC guy, the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker also has made to bitten back at Apple with a series of TV commercials showing people saving money by choosing Windows PCs over expensive Macs.

"Apple had a real holiday was to while Microsoft has gotten to all tangled up in its underwear," said Roger Kay, president of technology researchfrom Endpoint Technology Associates, referring to the Microsoft's epic problems was  getting to the previous system, Vista, out the door and into homes and businesses. "Windows 7 is going to be a lot  of more respectable competitor."us_tec_apple_s_counterpunch

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Questions remain  that not only around  back what will be unveiled in San Francisco but who will do the unveiling. Apple's top marketing executive, Philip Schiller, is scheduled to deliver the opening keynote, but a cameo from the CEO wouldn't be out of character for Apple, which thrives on showmanship.

Since then, Apple has repeatedly said he is expected back in his day-to-day duties at the end of June.

Bajarin, the analyst, doesn't expect Jobs to appeared next week. Then again, he doesn't expect Apple to announce a new iPhone on Monday, either.

A lot of the rumor mill is based on wishes.. They're wishing for the next tablet (PC) from Apple. They're wishing for an iPhone."