Quick WWDC 2007 Keynote Predictions
Will Happen (2/3 = 67%):
- Massive Leopard demos with lots of nifty stuff that wasn’t mentioned at last year’s WWDC. I mean, c’mon, this pretty much a given. Correct.
- A new look for the OS. I have to agree with Gruber that 6 years is as long as an Apple UI lasts. Correct
- Craig Eisler onstage talking about how wonderful Apple is and how great their tools are and so on. Or is it merely coincidence that the new GM of Microsoft’s MacBU came in the Friday before the Keynote? Wrong. Apparently it was just a coincidence.
Might Happen (1/2 = 50%):
- iPhone SDK. Something along the lines of Dashcode. They’re already rendering webpages on the thing, so there’s no added risk of “taking down the west coast network”. Correct. Dashcode is just a fancy web-page builder, after all.
- New iMacs (and possibly changes to the mini). Sexy new hardware would be a nice complement to the sexy new OS, but by no means essential. Wrong. Sadly. I want a new desktop.
Won’t Happen (6/6 = 100%):
- Photoshop CS3 demo. And a general Mac-on-Intel lovefest. It’s awfully late to be cheerleading the switch — everybody but Microsoft is already on Intel. Correct
- iLife & iWork ‘07. I expect Apple to hold off on the suites until Leopard ships, then use the new whizz-bang, Leopard-dependant features to drive Leopard sales. Heck they miht even call them the ‘08 suites and skip ‘07 entirely. Correct
- A Tablet. Correct. Even more so since they aren’t opening the iPhone for local apps.
- A Newton emulator on the iPhone. I can only dream… Correct. Unfortunately.
- Virtualization built into Leopard. Boot Camp will get slicker, but Apple won’t be pushing Parallels and VMware ouff the platform. Correct
- A subnotebook. Repeat after me: the black MacBook is the new 12″ PowerBook. Correct
Once again, I prove to be a much better pessimist than an optimist. And I did not see the Safari 3 announcement coming at all.
