I suspect we won’t see the fix-all iPhone 1.1 update until a little after MacOS X Leopard has been released. The logic being that if the Leopard team was pulled off Leopard back in the springtime to work on the iPhone, they likely went right back to working on Leopard the minute the iPhone was out the door. So in turn, I doubt they’ll go back to working on the iPhone until Leopard is out the door.
If that logic holds up and Leopard ships early October, I wouldn’t expect to see a huge iPhone software update until late October or early November. For as many members of the general public whom I’ve heard baselessly say “I’ll buy the second iPhone that comes out in October,” I think it would be in Apple’s best interests to promote the 1.1 update-enabled iPhone as actually being the next-generation iPhone heading into the holiday buying season. Because as much as Apple seems to have on its plate right now, a hardware-upgraded iPhone before the holidays wouldn’t seem to be in the cards.
Then again, Steve could announce 8 and 16 GB iPhones next week and make me look like a predicting fool…
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