Steve Jobs took the stage at Moscone Center today at the Worldwide Developer Conference with a keynote that introduced Mac OS X Lion, an OS X update available in July; a preview of iOS 5, which should be available later this fall; and the iCloud. What is the iCloud, you ask? According to Gizmodo, "iCloud will store your photos, videos, music, contacts and other files, which is accessible from any device, whether that be laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, or iPod touch." Which is to say, your stuff will live in a cloud, readily accessible from most devices. Get it?

However. What Jobs did not do was announce a shiny tricket. No new iPhone generation or magical iPod was revealed this year. Which is too bad. The iPhone is Steve Jobs' "New York, New York" number. No, not the awful Frank Sinatra version. Liza's version. The only version. Imagine, if you will, Minnelli not doing her signature number? You can't, can you? It's unfathomable. It's heresy. It's almost racist. That's how bad it is.

And that's what Steve Jobs did today: he walked off stage without signing "New York, New York."

But. The new OS will make your iPhones easier to use. This morning, according to Macworld, Apple explained that "folks want to buy iPhones and iPads without needing computers to tether them to" and that the new OS "will display a Welcome setup screen, allowing you to activate your device on the device itself." So, at least there's that.