Your official WWDC 2008 Prediction Thread! Prize awarded!

[benlee]

To make things interesting I will send the voted winner a prize (on my dime--it may only be a dime but you will win a prize).

Please Keep Your Predictions Organized so they can easily be checked once the Keynote is over. Also please keep comments about others predictions to a minimum.

I will post my prediction in a separate post because If I get bored enough I can keep an update of most predicted things here if the thread gets rolling.

Good Luck and may the best man, woman, or alien computer technology win.

You can amend your prediction anytime before the Keynote.

 

[benlee]

My prediction:

1. iPhone SDK no longer Beta
2. iPhone 2.0 software and App Store available TODAY!
3. iPhone 3G with official announcements of all the recent carrier agreements.
4. iPhone 3G available in most countries the 20th of June
5. .Mac overhaul. Enterprise Solutions. Branches off to Me and Mobile Me. However, ME could stand for something like (Mac exchange or something).
6. Back to My Mac iPhone style
7. OS X snow leopard or 10.6 quick mention. lots of talk about seemless integration with the mobile platform. (the converging bridges).

 

[aethelbert]

Well, it's a real shame that Time Machine only goes back in time. If only it could go forward 72 hours to retrieve the keynote stream. That would be such an easy win!

1. A discussion about growth in phone industry, mac market share, iTunes, and that type of garbage.
2. Introduction of OS 10.6. Not many details, but just the knowledge that they're working on it.
3. .mac overhaul. The feature will retain the .mac name, but "mobile me" will be a new feature. Like Back to my mac, it won't be the product name, but just a component of it.
4. A demo of the 2.0 firmware for the iPhone/iPod, available whenever immediately.
5. Introduction of the 3G iPhone.
6. Expansion into more international markets.


And by the way, are you gonna mail yourself a dime if you win?

 

[benlee]

There is no way I'm going to win. But if I do, I say its rigged.

 

[FF_productions]

1.3g iPhone, .Mac integration (more on that below), video conferencing, big new features that were not shown to us yet in the software update
2. 10.6 Talked about in little to no detail, touch screen possibly?
3. .Mac completely changed, most likely revolving around iPhone, iEverything basically

And that's my safe rough list...I don't expect them to go all out, as 80% of this keynote will most likely be iPhone's OS.

 

[Genghis Khan]

1.) Steve Jobs intro. talking about the success of Apple in the last 6 months
2.) iPhone SDK/firmware 2.0/app store release
3.) iPhone 3G announcement. with release date for some countries incl. australia
4.) mention of OS 10.6 'snow leopard'

5.) i lose my patience and buy a Mac Mini

 

[msheldrick]

1. More Microsoft References or MS Bashing
2. 3G iPhone Released "Soon"
3. 10.6 Brief Overview
4. iPod Touch/iPhone Updates
5. Something about TV
6. 10.5.4 Talk
7. Something about ACD & Mac mini
8. another "One More Thing..."

 

[Kinderhauz]

1. Talk about growing market share of Apple products
2. Introduce Snow Leopard, talk briefly about updates
3. Talk about iPhone SDK and App store
4. Unveil 3G iPhone
5. Demonstrate new Apps on iPhone, parade of guest speakers and developers
6. Demo GPS, voice dialing, and video chat on iPhone
7. More 3G iPhone features -- Steve uses iPhone as a can opener. Also uses iPhone to perform live brain surgery on stage (using Phil Schiller as test subject)
8. One more thing -- Steve Jobs unveils Macbook Touch (tablet form factor)

 

[BillyBobBongo]

1. Steve Jobs will walk onto the stage.
2. He will give a presentation using Keynote
3. People will clap....a lot!
4. He'll leave and we'll all feel warm and fuzzy coz we have new Apple things to play with!

You may send the Dime too........

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Okay....seriously then

1. 3G iPhone (this will take up most of his talk)
2. Software update for iPhone and iPod Touch...with a drawn out demo no doubt.
3. Phasing out of 8Gb iPod Touch
4. Ruining of the MacBook but stopping its production in white plastic!
5. Talk about how Leopard has affected our use of Apple systems and that they're constantly working on ways to fine tune it.
6. He'll talk about bringing movies to more countries through iTunes and the new bands/labels that have allowed their content to be sold through this medium.
7. He'll talk about the Time Capsule and perhaps touch a bit on Apple TV

 

[msheldrick]

2. He will give a presentation using Pages

You mean Keynote?

 

[Compile 'em all]

You mean Keynote?

HAHAHA. nice catch. That post of his is so asking for a FAIL pic.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

You mean Keynote?

Doh.....stupid rushed post!

 

[Epicurus]

1. Welcome to San Francisco!
2. WWDC sold out, first time ever. Welcomes iPhone developers to their first WWDC.
3. Lots of Apple staff on hand, most ever at WWDC.
4. Recap iPhone sales and launches in various countries.
5. Recap iPhone market-share, "look at what we did in less than a year"
6. Recap sales for Leopard, massive adoption rate.
7. Recap overall market-share for Mac, millions of new users.
8. Recap Apple Store openings, millions of visitors, "more people to look at your apps"
9. Outline the rest of the Keynote: "Today we're going to talk about OS X." OS X iPhone, OS X Leopard, etc.
10. iPhone first. Great partner with AT&T (and others worldwide), announce free AT&T WiFi use for iPhone
11. Talk about the SDK, iFund, etc. "Mac users should take a look at Cocoa Touch too (wink, wink)"
12. Demo: App store and some 1st and 3rd party apps, "Boom!"
13. Talk about other features of the 2.0 software update (poke fun at Windows Mobile)
14. Demo: new Music Store (over air downloads), improved Calendar and Mail, Dictionary, Address Book for iPhone, etc.
15. Announce that the 2.0 software is available today (free for iPhone, $20 for touch, must have January update)
16. Talk up need for faster internet, other hardware features missing in original iPhone...
17. Announce 3G iPhone, new design. GPS included on top models, with new cameras (does video on both sides).
18. Pull new iPhone out of jeans pocket. Demo: new hardware features (GPS navigation, video chat,
19. Original iPhone drops in price (gets some design upgrades too). Base price now $199 with contract.
20. Available today! Online orders right away, in stores by Tuesday.
21. Global launch. Lists new international markets for the 3G iPhone debut.
22. Talk about web services, "cloud computing", etc. Introduce upgraded version of ".Mac" called "Me"
23. Describe Me as the bridge between classic Mac/desktop world and the iPhone/mobile world. Intro "Mobile Me"
24. Demo: "Me", still has @mac.com email but with push to iPhone, larger web storage; over the air sync, etc.
25. Now on to the Mac. Talk about Leopard, Core Animation, other core features (poke fun at Vista, Windows 7).
26. Demo: 3rd party apps for Leopard. "Insanely Great!"
27. Introduce 10.6, preview a few features. Explain what "All Cocoa" means for developers, users.
28. Demo: new features, resolution independence, ZFS or whatever else. Announce early beta. Launch "Early 2009".

*29. One more thing... 10.6 will also have multi-touch built throughout. But how to demonstrate it?
*30. MacBook Air has multi-touch, but not enough. iPhone has multi-touch, but too small. What about a tablet?
*31. Apple doesn't have a tablet. Until today. Introduce mini-tablet with 8" touch screen, running custom OS X
*32. tablet runs Leopard, but a custom version, just for tablet. Runs all Mac Apps, but also runs iPhone apps!
*33. Has all the multi-touch gestures from iPhone and Air, plus many more. Can also use new touch stylus for drawing apps.
*34. Developers can use Cocoa Touch for tablet apps just like for iPhone apps. Xcode does it all, just click the checkbox.
*35. Demo: several in-house apps, then bring out 3rd party developers who wrote tablet apps over the weekend. "Boom!"
*36. tablet has 802.11n, Intel Atom. Available by end of June, taking orders today. Priced at $799 for 32GB, $999 for 64GB.

37. Thanks for coming, enjoy WWDC 08!


----- Numbers 29-36 are highly unlikely, but included for completeness. If we're getting a tablet anytime soon, this is how its probably going to go down.

 

[msheldrick]

HAHAHA. nice catch. That post of his is so asking for a FAIL pic.

ok then,

 

[Sky Blue]

- Announcing new iPhone, release in a couple of weeks
- demo of v2 software, release with new iPhones
- app store demo with finished 3rd party apps, release as above
- .Mac rebranding
- mmmmmaayyyybbeee 10.6

Also, an end to all the nonsense speculation.

 

[shecky]

- some things we expect.
- some things we do not expect.
- "boom"

 

[cherry su]

iPhone SDK out of beta
iPhone 2.0 software
3G iPhone
.Mac overhaul
OS X 10.6
MacBook Pro
New Cinema Displays
New mouse

 

[macfan881]

1sttalk about apples sucsses since Macworld. discusses how the air been selling all that other mac stuff new upgrade to .mac now called mobile me will be available today all curent customrers get these features and available today at a new discounted price 50 bucks a year shows off the new features

3. Iphone: A huge sucsses marketshare is continuing to grow the one thing people though thats holding back alot of sales is 3G goes on to talk how much faster 3g is to edge and so i announce today the 3g iphone with 3 collors Black White AND RED Product and biger sizes 16 and 32Gigs. 499 and 599 shows off the iphone with video confrenceing and goes to say now we got alot of pc users and we want to have the same confrencing for all so IChat will now be availible for Mac and Windows available today. also mentions the standard Iphones are now 199 and 299
talks about Firmware 2.0 recaps all the features and then talks about the app store. we got amazing apps coming to the store we got apps from aim monkeyball and many more. firmware will be available today all the features for iphone users free ipod touch app store is part of the upgrade but all other features will be a small fee 10-15 bucks

4. Leopard its been a Huge Sucsses crittically acllaim are best os we've made so how do we top this? today i like to give a lil glimse of 10.6 shows a few features touch screen capable

oh there is one more thing how do we start using this multi touch on macs well today id like to show off our first tablet mac 12" monitor a slot loading super Drive intel atom procssesor 8021n wireless these will be shipping by 4th quarter 08

 

[mogzieee]

Ok, I should win a bigger prize if my prediction is correct:

The keynote has no mention what so ever to the 3G iPhone, and as people are starting to stand up and leave, Steve Jobs runs back on stage shouting "sorry sorry, I forgot to mention the iPhone..."


lol

 

[benlee]

1. Welcome to San Francisco!
2. WWDC sold out, first time ever. Welcomes iPhone developers to their first WWDC.
3. Lots of Apple staff on hand, most ever at WWDC.
4. Recap iPhone sales and launches in various countries.
5. Recap iPhone market-share, "look at what we did in less than a year"
6. Recap sales for Leopard, massive adoption rate.
7. Recap overall market-share for Mac, millions of new users.
8. Recap Apple Store openings, millions of visitors, "more people to look at your apps"
9. Outline the rest of the Keynote: "Today we're going to talk about OS X." OS X iPhone, OS X Leopard, etc.
10. iPhone first. Great partner with AT&T (and others worldwide), announce free AT&T WiFi use for iPhone
11. Talk about the SDK, iFund, etc. "Mac users should take a look at Cocoa Touch too (wink, wink)"
12. Demo: App store and some 1st and 3rd party apps, "Boom!"
13. Talk about other features of the 2.0 software update (poke fun at Windows Mobile)
14. Demo: new Music Store (over air downloads), improved Calendar and Mail, Dictionary, Address Book for iPhone, etc.
15. Announce that the 2.0 software is available today (free for iPhone, $20 for touch, must have January update)
16. Talk up need for faster internet, other hardware features missing in original iPhone...
17. Announce 3G iPhone, new design. GPS included on top models, with new cameras (does video on both sides).
18. Pull new iPhone out of jeans pocket. Demo: new hardware features (GPS navigation, video chat,
19. Original iPhone drops in price (gets some design upgrades too). Base price now $199 with contract.
20. Available today! Online orders right away, in stores by Tuesday.
21. Global launch. Lists new international markets for the 3G iPhone debut.
22. Talk about web services, "cloud computing", etc. Introduce upgraded version of ".Mac" called "Me"
23. Describe Me as the bridge between classic Mac/desktop world and the iPhone/mobile world. Intro "Mobile Me"
24. Demo: "Me", still has @mac.com email but with push to iPhone, larger web storage; over the air sync, etc.
25. Now on to the Mac. Talk about Leopard, Core Animation, other core features (poke fun at Vista, Windows 7).
26. Demo: 3rd party apps for Leopard. "Insanely Great!"
27. Introduce 10.6, preview a few features. Explain what "All Cocoa" means for developers, users.
28. Demo: new features, resolution independence, ZFS or whatever else. Announce early beta. Launch "Early 2009".

*29. One more thing... 10.6 will also have multi-touch built throughout. But how to demonstrate it?
*30. MacBook Air has multi-touch, but not enough. iPhone has multi-touch, but too small. What about a tablet?
*31. Apple doesn't have a tablet. Until today. Introduce mini-tablet with 8" touch screen, running custom OS X
*32. tablet runs Leopard, but a custom version, just for tablet. Runs all Mac Apps, but also runs iPhone apps!
*33. Has all the multi-touch gestures from iPhone and Air, plus many more. Can also use new touch stylus for drawing apps.
*34. Developers can use Cocoa Touch for tablet apps just like for iPhone apps. Xcode does it all, just click the checkbox.
*35. Demo: several in-house apps, then bring out 3rd party developers who wrote tablet apps over the weekend. "Boom!"
*36. tablet has 802.11n, Intel Atom. Available by end of June, taking orders today. Priced at $799 for 32GB, $999 for 64GB.

37. Thanks for coming, enjoy WWDC 08!

Steve, How many times do I have to tell you--You are not eligible for this competition!

 

[SwiftLives]

• Final release of iPhone SDK.
• Introduction of iPhone App Store
• Introduction of 3G-capable iPhone - 16 & 32GB.
• Introduction of entry-level iPhone - not 3G compatible. Smaller than exisitng iPhone. 8GB.
• Retooling of .Mac to be compatible with iPhone and iPhone software.
• Demo of OS 10.6

No "One More Thing." No new computers. No new displays. Maybe some unannounced speedbumps to existing lines such as the Mac Mini.

It's a developer conference, so it will be more software-oriented then consumer-oriented.

 

[Rivix]

• Final release of iPhone SDK.
• Introduction of iPhone App Store
• Introduction of 3G-capable iPhone - 16 & 32GB.
• Introduction of entry-level iPhone - not 3G compatible. Smaller than exisitng iPhone. 8GB.
• Retooling of .Mac to be compatible with iPhone and iPhone software.
• Demo of OS 10.6

No "One More Thing." No new computers. No new displays. Maybe some unannounced speedbumps to existing lines such as the Mac Mini.

It's a developer conference, so it will be more software-oriented then consumer-oriented.

That sounds really boring...

 

[Tilpots]

The TV now runs iPhone's OS X.

The iPhone recieves a new transporter so you can literally "beam yourself up!" Scotty loses his job and goes on welfare

 

[SwiftLives]

That sounds really boring...

I'm a realist with low expectations.

Since this is a developer conference, I really don't expect any whiz-bang-spiffy consumer products to be introduced (i.e. new tablet, anything tv related, updated ipods).

Not to say we won't ever see these products. Chances are, Apple will have a few more media events later this year.

But personally, I'm not getting my hopes up for much outside of the iPhone, .Mac, and a 10.6 Developer Preview for this keynote.

(And I'm starting to doubt the entry level iPhone.)

 

[Darth.Titan]

My prediction is that regardless of what Mr. Jobs announces or what new products may come out, for the next week 98% of posts on MacRumors will be sprinkled with words like "deal-breaker", "what were they thinking?", "it will never sell", "what they should have done is...", etc. etc. etc.

That's just a guess though.