WWDC 2010 Predictions

Sad Professor

With less than a month until the keynote on June 7th, anyone care to make any predictions? iPhone 4 and OS 4 obviously. But what (if anything) else?

Mac Pros are overdue an update, as are the Apple Cinema Displays. WWDC would be a good time to announce both. Unless they get a quiet update the week before.

jester77

iLife 10

Dublinstiofán

Probably safe to say we will get a new iPhone almost identical to the one we got in April.

KeithM89_old

iPhone OS4, new iPhone hardware and a Macbook Air update

Sad Professor

I reckon the Air refresh will happen tomorrow morning, along with the Plasticbook.

Sad Professor

Still no update for the Air. I wonder if Apple plan to discontinue it now that the iPad is here.

I'm holding out for the slim chance that iMacs will get updated at WWDC.

Dont be at yourself

Pie in the sky stuff:

Software side:
- iLife 10
- OSX App Store
- Announcement of 10.7
- GameCenter integration with Steam

Mobileme:
- Updates to web apps
- Free features for the plebs
- Online storage and streaming of iTunes content

Mobile devices:
- iChat for iPhone, iPad
- iPad Remote app for iTunes/Apple TV
- Remote streaming of iTunes content

Hardware:
- Updates to Cinema Displays, Mac Pros
- Multi-touch input device for iMac/Mac Pro

Ham'nd'egger

One thing I'm wondering about is a more formal announcement about Flash. 10.7 previews are a shoe in and I'm keeping an eye out for a massive spec bump for Air, Mini and Mac Pro.

Other than that, iPhone news will dominate and something will follow with some of the high end iPod line.

Sad Professor

I think any 10.7 announcement or preview has been ruled out for this year. Apple have apparently taken people off OS X development to focus on the iPhone/iPad. They also dropped the Mac from the design awards at this year's conference.

But hopefully they'll compensate for this with some Mac hardware refreshes.

faceman

My money is on iLife, the iPhone and i get the feeling the App store may be overhauled in some form or other.

banquo

Dumping / reevaluating iTunes ftw, but won't happen.

conor.hogan.2

If Apple even hint of introducing an app store for osx I will not only get a cheap laptop and dual booth in with linux and hackintosh but I will never buy any Apple products ever.

That is the line - not the last straw as I dont care about all the stuff people moan at them for but messing with osx when it doesnt needed an app store because it has eneough power etc is bull****.

Sad Professor

There isn't going to be an OS X App Store. Jobs shot down the idea last month.

It was such a ridiculous rumour anyway. One of the blog sites pulled it out of their arse. All because Apple hadn't updated their 3rd party downloads page in a month (they've since updated it).

conor.hogan.2

jobs said no to a lot of things - like most of his main products.....

I dunno Jobs is getting more controlling and obsessed with perfection of late.

Red Alert

An OSX app store would not in itself be a bad idea, just if it was the one and only way to get apps like the iPhone OS App store.

I'm a bit troubled by the fact that the Mac development always gets pushed aside for the iPhone OS development: there were delays on 10.6 so that people could be pushed over to the iPhone side. I guess Apple are still someway serious about the Mac as a platform.

Dont be at yourself

Sad Professor wrote: »

There isn't going to be an OS X App Store. Jobs shot down the idea last month.

It was such a ridiculous rumour anyway. One of the blog sites pulled it out of their arse. All because Apple hadn't updated their 3rd party downloads page in a month (they've since updated it).

I think the question he shot down was if there would be walled-garden app environment like on iPhone OS.

I reckon an App Store is a possibility in a future OS iteration, though the OS may not be locked down to exclusively using App Store apps. It's a good fit for Apple's ethos - simple, one click downloads and installs, and a slice of the profit from any sales.

Dorsanty

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

I think the question he shot down was if there would be walled-garden app environment like on iPhone OS.

I reckon an App Store is a possibility in a future OS iteration, though the OS may not be locked down to exclusively using App Store apps. It's a good fit for Apple's ethos - simple, one click downloads and installs, and a slice of the profit from any sales.

Yeah knicking the Ubuntu software center idea would be a good one for them. I use AppFresh currently and it has some of this. I can favorite apps and it tells me if I don't have them installed on the machine and offers one click download & install where possible (i.e. where drag and drop of .app to Applications folder is all that is needed). Also tells me where updates are available. Quite cool to have a one stop shop for third-party software.

conor.hogan.2

They already have that sort of on the Apple site where they have apps for download - so if its not walled it makes little sense.

If it is a choice - knock themselves out.

The ipad has overtaken mac sales - the ipod line is also more lucrative than the mac line.
I am not suprised but nontheless pissed they are straying from improving osx altho for the time being it is solid and very good and snow leopard is young still.

They need to keep it even if only for developers to develop on.....

Dman001

It will be interesting to see how/if Apple will respond to Google TV. A recent patent appeared with the Apple TV running a iPhone emulator so iPhone Apps could be used on the Apple TV. Now WWDC is a developers conference so Im not really expecting new Apple TV hardware, but maybe an App Store of some sort for the ATV could appear.

muggyog

Office for Mac 2011, obviously.

displaced dub

After the big news from Google last week, MacRumors reader Bryan Webster emailed Steve Jobs: "I hope you have some good WWDC announcements to blow [Google] out of the water".

To this, Steve Jobs reportedly replied "You won't be disappointed". While it's always hard to authenticate emails sent to and from 3rd parties, Bryan did post headers as an offering of proof.

Apple is expected to be making new product announcements at the Worldwide Developer's Conference from June 7th-11th. In particular, everyone expects that the next generation iPhone will be introduced at that event. Other rumors have suggested that we may see the iPhone with Verizon this year, though it may not come as early as June.

banquo

The Apple TV had so much potential it's unreal. Serious potential. If they revamp it I might get one. Until then it's Boxee all the way.

*(keeps refreshing forums for a Boxxe Box release date)

Creamy Goodness

i'd like to see itunes get a rebranding, it does more now than just tunes :pac:

Wireless sync for devices like iphone, ipod.

the iphone specific features of mobileMe to be free (find my iPhone, contact/cal sync).

purely on iPhone OS:

1. searching in safari.
2. spotlight calculations and dictionary/thesaurus.
3. quick links to common toggles (turning off wifi/3g/bluetooth) is a pain in the ass at the moment,SBSetting is great for jailbroken phones but i want an apple solution.
4. create routes in google maps would be handy for walkers/runners/cyclists for gps to record points to track routes taken (sure there are apps out there for that but again an apple app has that extra shin).


very far fetched want at the moment would be an simultaneous world wide launch during the event, just so all those at the event cause a panic running for the doors, would be quite comical in an evil kind of way :pac:.

banquo

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i'd like to see itunes get a rebranding, it does more now than just tunes :pac:

Wireless sync for devices like iphone, ipod.

the iphone specific features of mobileMe to be free (find my iPhone, contact/cal sync).

purely on iPhone OS:

1. searching in safari.
2. spotlight calculations and dictionary/thesaurus.
3. quick links to common toggles (turning off wifi/3g/bluetooth) is a pain in the ass at the moment,SBSetting is great for jailbroken phones but i want an apple solution.
4. create routes in google maps would be handy for walkers/runners/cyclists for gps to record points to track routes taken (sure there are apps out there for that but again an apple app has that extra shin).


very far fetched want at the moment would be an simultaneous world wide launch during the event, just so all those at the event cause a panic running for the doors, would be quite comical in an evil kind of way :pac:.

The dictionary / thesaurus would be unbelievably useful for me.

I'd say that we'll see an iTunes rebranding within 18 months to the iStore or something equally predictable. The quick wifi/3g/bluetooth widget would also be great.

Imagine if it was nothing but updates on iLife and a few small changes here and there. You'd be so pissed for paying that money to go.

KeithM89_old

Nearly there - conference starts at 6pm GMT Monday evening

Obviously, Gizmodo havent been invited