“What will Apple announce at WWDC06? There will no doubt be some surprises, but here are some well known inevitabilities, some reasonable possibilities for new apps, new UI, and new hardware, and a few commonly repeated ideas that – sorry – have no chance,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Eran compiles a very interesting list. To wht you appetite, here’s his list of “no-way predictions,” the commonly repeated ideas that have zero chance of happening:
• Red Box WINE or Windows Virtualization Not going to happen.
• Use of Linux Kernel Linux isn’t even in the running.
• Microkernel Removal Nothing wrong with the kernel.
• An Intel-Only Leopard It will be Universal.
• The End of an open Darwin project The kernel not going to stay closed.
• iPod based Phone It will be a phone, not a music player that can place calls.
• Self-Destructing Rental Media Exploding media is lame.
• Skins on anything are not going to happen.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: Steve Jobs’ keynote preview of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is scheduled for Monday, August 7, 2006, beginning at 10:00am PDT.
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The new Mac mini will also be a raisin danish. It will defy gravity and offer solutions for world peace. Anything less is unacceptable.
The biggest point worthy of re-iteraing is:
• Red Box WINE or Windows Virtualization Not going to happen.
I agree 100%, this will never happen. Though I do believe that rental media (movies) that expire is a possibility, not at WWDC though.
I hope they announce the Mac Pro line.
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Steve Jobs will step aside, and Bill Gates will be named CEO.
Steve Jobs will then open a successful chain of barbecue restaurants across the country named “iPork”.
Or, maybe not.
Thought I had it! Come on, Ampar. That was very Armando Benitez of you. I expect more of a Jonathan Papelbon from you next time.
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Raster! You fail it! THIRD! ! ! ! Bwah-hahahahaha!
But seriously, we need portable RDF projectors. With decent battery life!
No way in Hades that Leopard is Intel-only — can’t imagine where that rumor came from. Wonder if Boot Camp will be on a separate disk, though, so non-Intel folks can just hold onto it until they buy their new computer.
Hmmm…is there going to be a live Webcast of the keynote, or delayed by how long?
Intel-only Leopard? With its current installed PPC base, I don’t see how they could make an intel-only version.
I predict a 90% chance of buying one of the items released – 100%, if MBP (Merom version) released.
Raster: I’m more of a Jones boys follower. Andruw and Chipper.
But I love obscurum per obscurius. Next year in Merom!
I’m not buying squat
Unitl the dual Quad Kentsfields and BlueRay DVD drive and DRM/iSight integrated monitors arrive.
Can’t watch BD-DVD’s unles the monitor is DRMed.
Also the bugs will be worked out by then too. Hardware and Leopard. (can you say bugzilla?)
Dual Dual Xeons are a waste of time, less powerful than a PPC Quad. You’ll see.
I already violated my NDA enough as it is for today.
Next time, the 6Gen. iPod video.
“I already violated my NDA enough as it is for today.”
That’s rough and I understand. I may have violated my BNG, my RQP, and my POF. Time for a bath.
Speaking of Developers Conferences, I never get tired of this one. Get the man a towel.
Come on… This is WWDC, the only items that will be announced will be for developers, such as:
1. OS X 10.5 preview (will have the MS spies running back to Redmond to update Vista)
2. Mac Pro
3. Possible XServe updates
Why wuold apple release any iMac or iPod or mini or macbook updates? Why would they release an iPhone? Save the consumer stuff for a consumer conference or standalone event.
“Steve Jobs will then open a successful chain of barbecue restaurants across the country named “iPork””
Considering that Steve Jobs is a vegetarian, I doubt it.
At the keynote Steve Jobs is going to announce the formation of the Steve Jobs foundation. In it’s first act of charity, they are going to reimburse Apple for the loan of a number of developers and managers that actually know how to ship product to Microsoft.
Jobs is actually a pescetarian. You were close.
It will be revealed that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard cures cancer… how else do you explain Steve Jobs’s amazing recovery?
(P.S. Jobs is a vegan, not a vegetarian.)
I predict a 100 percent chance of only 10 percent of you being correct.
While making his presentation, Steve is going to be interrupted by a ringing mobile phone in his pocket.
And, he’s going to say something like: “I’m sorry, but I have to get this.”
When will MDN make their site more user friendly?
MDN needs:
1) Web 2.0 makeover with free registration
2) The ability to check and modify your user preferences
3) MDN Friends can private chat
4) Alerts you when your friends are online
Post ideas for the site here (until MDN creates a page for suggestions). Hopefully MDN would be interested in user feedback. If so, they should start a story specifically for gathering suggestions from users.
(sending this as an email to MDN as I type…)
Pete Peterson: That is a great marketing idea for iPhone, but more likely at a MacWorld Conference keynote. And I am sure that the iStore would open after the keynote to a HUGE success.
What will Apple announce at WWDC06?
That’s easy:
“One more thing….”
Pete Peterson:
I like the way you think. Question is, who will be making the call?
“When will MDN make their site more user friendly?
MDN needs:
1) Web 2.0 makeover with free registration
2) The ability to check and modify your user preferences
3) MDN Friends can private chat
4) Alerts you when your friends are online
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what so they can cram in even more advert popups and textads? i mean honestly how can other news sites operate with so few ads when poor mdn has to shoehorn them in, it’s a mystery i tell you
Steve Ballmer storms the platform in a frantic attempt to upstage Jobs.
Glowing red, Ballmer monkey dances, screams, and slobbers until he’s so riled up he finally explodes.
Carefully edging through the blubber remnants, Steve Jobs reappears, names himself Microsoft CEO, and orders MS shut down immediately “because it sucks”.
Apple retakes its rightful place as the world’s leading OS and computer vendor.
Never know it could happen…
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I have my predcition for something that won’t ever happen after any Steve Jobs keynote speeches…..
Technical-Computer-Expert-VisualBasic Hacks will not stop telling us how non-secure OS X is.
No matter how how cool of a skin they have on WinAmp, how many free intenet calls they have made, or how many WoW characters they have named with some variation of “Leroy Jenkins”… they are running the most unstable and non-secure commerically available OS in the free world. This is a documented fact!
It is not our job to justify ourselves to the Vista trolls. Or plead with them to convert. Our job is to grab a six pack and some chips then watch the dumb ass M$ users suffer. Because in the end aren’t the funniest comedy scripts about ppl frustrating themselves from the obsurd decisions they have made?
Just my $0.02
No hardware will be announced.
Just news and info on Leopard.
sorry to disappoint you all.
Check carefully the health of the steve.
Check carefully the health of the steve.
Check carefully the health of the steve.
Apple isn’t Cuba.
Jimmy — it’s pretty much a given that the MacPros will be announced; if not immediately available, at least there’ll be a timetable (like the MBPs were announced at MacWorld SF, but not available till February).
I’d also hope that the “one more thing” would be the head of development at Adobe would come out with the new Universal version of Creative Suite…
To MacKowPow:
Absolutely nothing based upon Kentsfield will be announced before MWSF07. Thinking anything else is delusional.
While HDMI/HDCP/ICT compliant monitors and video cards will be welcome, they are no where near necessary. If you connect a Blu-ray Disk drive to your Mac today you will be able to view them. No HDMI/HDCP/ICT compliance necessary. Additionally, all the major studios supporting either Blu-ray Disk or HD DVD have publicly stated that they will not implement the ICT until at least 2010 — if ever. You can buy/rent a LOT of disks between now and then. Besides… a fair percentage of the people who buy a new Macintosh Pro within the next 4-5 months will will again buy a new Mac in 2010. So crying wolf does you no good (especially when the wolf is at least four years away).
Dual Dual Xeons less powerful than a PPC Quad? Not for 99.99% of applications. These are not 4 Pentium D, Netburst based processors we are talking about here.
As for me believing even for a second that you have a NDA with Apple for hardware… well, let me just say that a pico second duration for my belief of that concept is a gross exageration!
New line of iSight equipped monitors to match the new MacPro cases.
retro glossy green macpros with radio dials on the front that switch apps.
you heard it here first
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raterbator,
what would a Web 2.0 makover do for the functionality of the site?
It merely posts stories and invites user discussion. How would Ajax or Flash Remoting improve this?
With the other functions you mention:
1) a modifiable user profile is easy, but would require login to the site, which many might not like.
2) private chat requires two running forums, therefore two points to monitor
3) knowledge of when friends are online requires a second protocol, more ISP costs, may imply privacy concerns, and is a lot of development time.
I hope you can pay for all this.