{"id":3336,"date":"2010-06-07T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2010-08-27T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T02:22:40","slug":"wwdc-2010-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/wwdc-2010-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"WWDC 2010 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>General<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>The famed touch screen iMac will not occur until 10.7 which will not occur this year.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to converge touch input like an iPad with a Mac will likely occur in new software\/hardware products<\/li>\n<li>BluRay will be announced in January &#8217;11 and no sooner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Hardware<\/h1>\n<h2>Mac<\/h2>\n<h3>Minor\/Quiet\/No<\/h3>\n<p>Quiet means that there will be a change to stats but it will not be announced in the keynote<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xserve \/ Mac Pro (Tower) &#8211; Speed Bump (Quiet)<\/li>\n<li>Mac Book Air &#8211; Speed Bump (Quiet)<\/li>\n<li>iMac &#8211; Speed Bump (Quiet)<\/li>\n<li>Laptops &#8211; No change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Major<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NEW<\/strong> Mini &#8211; New features. Beginning to converge with AppleTV (Released 6\/15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Special<\/h2>\n<h3>Mouse\/Joystick\/Trackpad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NEW<\/strong> Magic Trackpad. &#8211; Convergence of Magic Mouse and iPad. (Released 6\/27)<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Bluetooth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Apple TV<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Beginning to converge with Mac Mini and iPhone<\/li>\n<li>Runs iPhone 4 OS?<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>All Apps now synchable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>DVR service with live TV<\/li>\n<li>iPhone\/iPad can act as VNC style remote<\/li>\n<li>Magic trackpad (see below) can also act as a remote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Monitors<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NEW<\/strong> 27&#8243; (Quiet) (Released 6\/27)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pod<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Refresh of the line with speed bumps. No form changes (Quiet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>iTouch<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NEW<\/strong> iPhone HD (We&#8217;ve seen most of the specs; no surprises)<\/li>\n<li><strong>NEW<\/strong> iPodTouch next gen. (camera &#8211; probably to canniblise old iphone hardware)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Software<\/h1>\n<h2>iSoftware<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>iWork &#8217;10 &#8211; Deeper connection to iWork &#8211; iPad<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Better cloud document management.<\/li>\n<li>Numbers introduces Pivot tables (MacBU goes to defcon 2)<\/li>\n<li>iWork for Windows??? (Low odds&#8230; If so MacBU goes to defcon 1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>iLife &#8217;10 &#8211; (Announced)<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Final Cut extreme added to package?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>iMedia &#8217;10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Having gone after Office with iWork, Apple now starts to chip away at Adobe CS with movie, audio, and graphic editing tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>ProSoftware<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Quiet feature bumps. Not the right event for these<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Safari<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Safari 5<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Driving HTML 5, CSS 3 (Released 6\/7)<\/li>\n<li>Google Reader (NO)<\/li>\n<li>Plug ins (YES)<\/li>\n<li>Better JS (YES)<\/li>\n<li>Cloud (See services) (NO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>OS<\/h2>\n<h3>Mac<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mac OS 10.6.4 released (Released 6\/15)<\/li>\n<li>NO MENTION OF 10.7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>iPhone<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>iPhone OS 4 released for iPhone (Released 6\/21)<\/li>\n<li>iPhone OS 4.5 announced (beta to attendees)<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Hardware acceleration<\/li>\n<li>iPhone, iPad, Apple TV<\/li>\n<li>New Mac Mini?<\/li>\n<li>Video Conferencing Apis<\/li>\n<li>More backgrounding<\/li>\n<li>Common file sandbox<\/li>\n<li>App data interchange (TEAR DOWN THE WALL)<\/li>\n<li>Cloud services API<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Services<\/h1>\n<h2>iWork.com<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Becomes cornerstone of Apple Cloud services<\/li>\n<li>Prevalent and tied into MobileMe and iTunes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mobile Me<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Now Free<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Add on services (Mailbox quota, storage quota, etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cloud access<\/li>\n<li>Hardware tracker<\/li>\n<li>Mail no longer beta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>iTunes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>There will continue to be NO Beatles on iTunes at this time<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cloud store your library<\/li>\n<li>Recover all purchases (within licensing agreements)<\/li>\n<li>More on Lala<\/li>\n<li>Live TV DVR through Apple TV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>iAd<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessions on this with further info<\/li>\n<li>Only summarised in Keynote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>GameCenter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>as iAd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;em&gt;Updated 08.27.10 with releases post WWDC&lt;\/em&gt;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-3336\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/wwdc-2010-predictions\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-3336\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/wwdc-2010-predictions\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-3336\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/wwdc-2010-predictions\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/wwdc-2010-predictions\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General The famed touch screen iMac will not occur until 10.7 which will not occur this year. 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