The WWDC Keynote Rumors, Final Predictions
DailyTechTalk has translated (from German) what claims to be a complete rundown of Steve Jobs keynote address at WWDC tomorrow [via TUAW]. While I would love nothing more than to see everything on this list come to fruition, I have to believe it is 100% fake – it’s simply too ideal.
The list is just like a rundown of all the major and not-so-major rumors from the past few weeks and ads a big bomb at the end: iPhone@home – an iPhone that replaces the phone functionality with iChat for those who want a table-like Mac device at home. I mean that would be awesome, but is there anyway Apple does that? I highly doubt it.
As we’re a mere 8 hours away from the keynote I figure I’ll give a few predictions based solely on a combination of things I’ve heard and gut feeling:
So there are the things I’m expecting. Most are pretty standard, but a few curve-balls in there. I think Steve might have some HD content for Apple TV as people like me are screaming bloody murder about the lack of it – and he is Disney’s largest shareholder by the way. He might even mention the just officially reported video rental service coming in the fall. I also think Windows will play a very large role in the WWDC in that I think Apple has expanded beyond Boot Camp and into simply ‘Camp’ – no more reboots for Windows apps to run. Might be a stretch, but perhaps Apple is working behind the scenes with Parallels. We’ll start learning the truth and dispelling the build-up in less than 8 hours now. I’m excited. For coverage definitely check out the live-blogging from the various sites (I usually follow Engadget’s) – and feel free to check back here as I’ll be giving commentary on the new things throughout the day. [UPDATE]: iPhone Alley is setting up to do a live audio feed, but even they aren’t too optimistic about their chances of not crashing. [UPDATE 2]: Okay the keynote is over, so how’d we do? Not so well. There simply were not any shocking announcements beyond Safari for Windows – which has been rumored in the past but died down until this morning right before the event. -A new OS X UI was shown off, though it wasn’t quite as different as I expected. I’m just pretty shocked that Apple offered absolutely nothing new on the hardware end. Yeah, they probably don’t want to take away from the iPhone launch in a couple weeks, but those iMacs and Mac Minis are sure getting old…
-A new .Mac was kind of shown off, but it really wasn’t all that different and Google was nowhere to be found.
-iLife and iWord ‘07 still complete no shows. Seriously, are they going to just skip 2007?
-No new iMacs.
-iPhone 3rd party development was introduced.
-No talk of iTunes beyond that Finder now looks more like it and Cover Flow for all files.
-No OS X 10.4.10, but it’ll no doubt be out soon.