On: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)

[judofyr]

All iPhones prior to the 4S has been announced at WWDC and then released ~1 month later.

[pohl → judofyr]

Only 3 out of 5 have been announced at WWDC:

The original iPhone was announced at a special event on January 9, 2007.

iPhone 3G was announced at WWDC 2008.

iPhone 3GS was announced at WWDC 2009.

iPhone 4 was annouced at WWDC 2010.

iPhone 4S was announced at a special event on October 4, 2011.

[gojomo → pohl]

'[A] special event on January 9, 2007'?

How soon they forget! It wasn't an Apple 'special event', it was the perennial San Francisco MacWorld Expo, once the go-to event for Apple announcements.

Apple's moved on from MacWorld as a launch platform, and I wouldn't be completely surprised if Apple someday owned their own general-audience conferences – believing, as with retail stores, they should control the whole experience.

But MacWorld Expo shouldn't be written out of Apple history.