“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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