I would think so, but I'm not sure and would be curious to find out. It just amazes me the number of apps that can be on there already. The technology is fabulous.
I think the 144 is more of a technical limitation than a commercial limitation, the same way some limits for things are at 255 or 65535. (Both of which are very common in videogames). So it might still be 144, or increased based on size. There are limits to how much it can handle you know.
I'm sorry? I just thought that you can have as many apps on your iPhone as your memory can handle, it's not the number of apps installed, but the size or how much bytes it takes up.
it's not a technical limitation, but still a limitation. You see the iPhone only allows up to 9 pages of apps. Each page has 16 apps, so if you use up all those 9 pages, or 144 apps, you'd have to start deleting. even if you still have some memory left.
To answer the OP's question: I don't know. I think nobody outside of Apple can answer that one until June 19.
16 apps and 9 pages, makes perfect sense to me. I don't really see the need for 144 apps though, I'm certain a lot of them can be consolidated into a single app.