“With the 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) quickly approaching, the Mac rumor scene has been buzzing with rumors and reports. As usual, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the big event,” arn writes for MacRumors.
MacRumors covers the following rumors and the speculation about each from various outlets:
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
• Mac Pro (Power Mac desktop/workstation replacement)
• iPhone
• iPod+iTunes: iPod nano, “true” video iPod, iTunes Movie Store
• Xserves
• Displays
• Other updates
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” and “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
The only 2 sites with live updating that I am aware of thus far are…
http://macmegasite.com/wwdc.html
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/
Ah, whatever happened to the good ol’ days of live video streaming? I’d even settle for a 15 minute delay. I’m wondering if their servers and services couldn’t handle the streaming video in conjunction with the simultaneous flood of software updating and Apple.com info/store hits.
Steve, do live streaming and charge $5, appling it to your favorite charity.
But there are a lot of good reasons for Apple to do something with their monitor line-up (price being the most obvious).
Like go bigger?
This is the crowd for massive monitors and top-end Macs to run them with.
I believe the rumor that iChat is going to be talked about *a lot* over the next year to be true. I’ve posted on previous threads in the past that they need to release a Win version to make it a viable standard. I believe Apple will be going head-to-head with Skype in 2007. iChat is going to see many major enhancements in the next 18 months. If they time it right, I believe Apple could lock-in iChat as a standard (or at minimum a competing standard). This is just too big of an arena for Apple to ignore. Not sure if it will be talked about in-depth at WWDC, but I think it will be a topic – and one that will grow momentum rapidly.
iChat is going big-time in the coming year.
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Ahhh! It’s like Christmas!
i don’t know what will be harder to do: Fall asleep tonight or wait patiently (not looking at any of these sites) until the keynote’s posted on the QuickTime site!
Ahhh! It’s like Christmas!
i don’t know what will be harder to do: Fall asleep tonight or wait patiently (not looking at any of these sites) until the keynote’s posted on the QuickTime site!
MW: waiting. Common, these are so rigged
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I don’t really see what iPod has to do with Developers. So to me, it doesn’t seem logical..
I would assume that hardware developers also attend WWDC.
Also iTunes and iPod are a complete platform that developers (hardware and software) can, well, develop for…
my 2 cents,
Luke
I’m predicting a keynote closely resembling the WWDC Keynote from 2003, during which the G5 was introduced.
– Routine Updates (iPod and Mac sales/retail sales/retail expansion/etc.)
– Leopard Preview
– App Updates Preview (new iChat/iCal/Mail/Safari/everything not updated normally at MWSF)
– Introduction of Mac Pro utilizing Woodcrest/Benchmarks proving speed
This will be it. Don’t expect much more, Apple doesn’t have a tradition of introducing much more than this at WWDC. It’s best to expect a keynote similar to this in content and structure.
–mAc
More info and banner pics at http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/08/07/hasta.la.vista.vista/
It looks like Apple is REALLY going after Microsoft…
“Hasta la vista, Vista”
“Welcome to the Right Platform”
…and the best banner is…
“Vista 2.0”