“His faithful followers will be listening carefully on Monday when Steve Jobs strides on stage to address the masses of Apple Computer Inc.’s fans at the company’s annual worldwide developers conference,” Rex Crum reports for MarketWatch. “Apple’s co-founder and chief executive doesn’t speak in public often — he doesn’t even take part in quarterly conference calls with analysts — so when he does take the stage, his words often carry more weight than might be expected in a forum ostensibly dedicated to people who design Macintosh-based programs.”
“Analyst Gene Munster, a veteran Jobs-watcher with Piper Jaffray, says it’s almost certain Jobs will tout a so-called Mac Pro machine to replace the PowerMac, and some sort of new server hardware. He said that Intel’s release of the Core 2 Duo chips line makes the developers WWDC conference an ideal stage for introducing a new product,” Crum reports. “Indeed, Jobs is likely to give a “Mac-centric” keynote address, said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research. ‘We view this as important as many of (Apple’s) professional and high-end consumers have been waiting for a high-end expandable Intel Mac,’ Wu said.”
“Additionally, Apple has already said it would demonstrate Leopard, the next upgrade to its Mac operating system,” Crum reports. “Wu said that even though Apple devotees may crave seeing something new on the iPod front, the probability is ‘low’ that the company will launch a new iPod at this conference. Past practice suggests any new iPods are more likely to come out sometime in either September or October, he says. ‘There is always room for firsts,’ Wu said. ‘But WWDC is a Mac event and has not been used in the past for major iPod announcements.'”
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“Jobs is likely to give a “Mac-centric” keynote address”
Well, duh.
After looking at several sites posting the Banner, I noticed that while the macbooks, macbook pros, and the PowerMacs were there, I did not see the mac mini anywhere.
Hopefully, there is a new mac mini media center under one of those covered signs…
While my hopes are high, I doubt it since this is a developer conference and Jobs rather sell us TV content rather than let us record it ourselves.
My guess is that the now famous “one more thing” will only be an upgrade of the MBP to memrons….
this is a PRO conference. It is for developers. The other 51 weeks in the year are for consumers (Mac mini, iPods) so take a deep breath and recognize the conference for what it is.
The Mac mini is so on the banner. It’s right next to the black nano on the far right, and right above the Quartz Extreme icon.
MDN Word: “finally”
Finally somebody got it right
I want a Mac maxi! Yikes. Sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
pitstain: So are you saying developers?
I really wanted to sell my loaded G5 Quad before now, but sigh. I guess I’ll have to wait a while longer before I have the latest & greatest again… And somebody gave me an authentic & valid, shrink-wrapped Windows XP too! Now I’ll never get to see what everybody has been complaining about. I’ve only used Apple OSes for 25 years. Sigh.
Comment:
From: Ampar
Aug 04, 06 – 03:59 pm
“Jobs is likely to give a “Mac-centric” keynote address”
Well, duh.
I second that! ;P
Great. Now even the analysts are getting in on the rumor mill.
“My guess is that the now famous “one more thing” will only be an upgrade of the MBP to memrons….”
Hey AL — What the hell’s a “memron”?!?
@Ampar:
Yes. And then….
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Now you go.
Nothing buy Leopard news at WWDC.
No hardware new releases, nothing.
These hardware things, if any, will be announced later.
Most likely modest upgrades of iPods in Sept.
Upgrades in Macbooks too.
New PowerMac (and other things) in January SanFran MacFest.
Two things for sure – there will be surprises, and many current rumors will remain rumors.
Possibilities:
Introduction of the MacPro’s, and an updated MacBook Pro running recent intel chips
Leopard by June 07
Adobe CS 3 by December
iPod Video
“Apple Mac to take spotlight at WWDC”
Take Spotlight where?
“Adobe CS 3 by December”
Of what year?
Why would Developers care about an iPod Video?
Unless the new iPod would run third-party applications and play third party games, Developers won’t give a damn, and would actually be upset for Steve wasting their time.
This Conference is for Developers, not for the average “I want I want I want” American.
Dankman – don’t forget hardware developers. They’d be interested in any changes to the iPod.
I could definitely see Macintosh Pros either available or announced at WWDC–that fits in nicely with developers.
“Why would Developers care about an iPod Video?”
Good point. On the other hand, why would developers care about Airport Express? That was released at WWDC. Or connecting iPods to your BMW? That was announced at WWDC. With the death of MacWorld Boston/NY, WWDC has become a place to announce things.
That said, I would tend to doubt the iPhone/”true” video iPod, etc rumors. I might believe that Apple would announce an “upgrade” to existing iPods–say, 4 and 8GB iPod nanos–or some kind of accessory.
Apple doesn’t need to cram brand new iPod news into WWDC. All they do is drop a hint to the media, send out some invitations, and it’ll be SRO just about anywhere Steve wants to make the announcement.
I use iTunes & have an iPod and couldn’t give a sh*t if Steve Jobs makes a single iPod announcement. The WWDC is about the Macinstoh, the whole Macintosh and nothing but the Macintosh. Take that analysts.
“Dankman – don’t forget hardware developers. They’d be interested in any changes to the iPod.”
Touché, PC Apologist, Touché.
probable response to this post: “He’s not even using that word right!”
“is about the Macinstoh, the whole Macintosh”
Which is almost as good as being about the bass, the whole bass.
I caught you a delicious bass.