General
- The famed touch screen iMac will not occur until 10.7 which will not occur this year.
- The ability to converge touch input like an iPad with a Mac will likely occur in new software/hardware products
- BluRay will be announced in January ’11 and no sooner
Hardware
Mac
Minor/Quiet/No
Quiet means that there will be a change to stats but it will not be announced in the keynote
- Xserve / Mac Pro (Tower) – Speed Bump (Quiet)
- Mac Book Air – Speed Bump (Quiet)
- iMac – Speed Bump (Quiet)
- Laptops – No change
Major
- NEW Mini – New features. Beginning to converge with AppleTV (Released 6/15)
Special
Mouse/Joystick/Trackpad
- NEW Magic Trackpad. – Convergence of Magic Mouse and iPad. (Released 6/27)
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- Bluetooth
Apple TV
- Beginning to converge with Mac Mini and iPhone
- Runs iPhone 4 OS?
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- All Apps now synchable
- DVR service with live TV
- iPhone/iPad can act as VNC style remote
- Magic trackpad (see below) can also act as a remote.
Monitors
- NEW 27″ (Quiet) (Released 6/27)
Pod
- Refresh of the line with speed bumps. No form changes (Quiet)
iTouch
- NEW iPhone HD (We’ve seen most of the specs; no surprises)
- NEW iPodTouch next gen. (camera – probably to canniblise old iphone hardware)
Software
iSoftware
- iWork ’10 – Deeper connection to iWork – iPad
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- Better cloud document management.
- Numbers introduces Pivot tables (MacBU goes to defcon 2)
- iWork for Windows??? (Low odds… If so MacBU goes to defcon 1)
- iLife ’10 – (Announced)
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- Final Cut extreme added to package?
- iMedia ’10
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- Having gone after Office with iWork, Apple now starts to chip away at Adobe CS with movie, audio, and graphic editing tools
ProSoftware
- Quiet feature bumps. Not the right event for these
Safari
- Safari 5
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- Driving HTML 5, CSS 3 (Released 6/7)
- Google Reader (NO)
- Plug ins (YES)
- Better JS (YES)
- Cloud (See services) (NO)
OS
Mac
- Mac OS 10.6.4 released (Released 6/15)
- NO MENTION OF 10.7
iPhone
- iPhone OS 4 released for iPhone (Released 6/21)
- iPhone OS 4.5 announced (beta to attendees)
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- Hardware acceleration
- iPhone, iPad, Apple TV
- New Mac Mini?
- Video Conferencing Apis
- More backgrounding
- Common file sandbox
- App data interchange (TEAR DOWN THE WALL)
- Cloud services API
Services
iWork.com
- Becomes cornerstone of Apple Cloud services
- Prevalent and tied into MobileMe and iTunes
Mobile Me
- Now Free
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- Add on services (Mailbox quota, storage quota, etc)
- Cloud access
- Hardware tracker
- Mail no longer beta
iTunes
- There will continue to be NO Beatles on iTunes at this time
- Cloud store your library
- Recover all purchases (within licensing agreements)
- More on Lala
- Live TV DVR through Apple TV
iAd
- Sessions on this with further info
- Only summarised in Keynote
GameCenter
- as iAd
<em>Updated 08.27.10 with releases post WWDC</em>