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the lead-up to WWDC

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It's that time of year again. It's the lead-up to WWDC. Those of us who are lucky enough to be able to attend have looked at the schedule and guessed at the sessions that will be the most useful to us, and made a small mental note about the number of sessions which are yet to be announced. The Apple rumour mill is trying to guess what Steve might have up his sleeve during the Stevenote.

I admit it: I love the Apple rumour sites. I find them vastly entertaining. There are times when they're right, there are times when they're spectacularly wrong, and there are times when they're just going for the obvious. So far, this WWDC seems to be a huge case of the latter. We know that, barring major issues, the iPhone is coming into our hot little hands this month, even though we don't know when it's going to happen, so there are 30 guesses for the actual release date (three of which have already been proven to be wrong). Everyone's noticed that the various hardware is getting a little bit long in the tooth, so they're making the oh-so-difficult guess that we'll see hardware refreshes at WWDC.

C'mon guys, that's boring. I've figured all of that out on my own. We've still got two weeks, why don't you revive the endless rumours of a tablet? Or you can join me in my hope for a mid-line headless Mac (not a Mac Pro, not an iMac, just a Mac) so that I don't have to throw away a perfectly good 24" iMac every time I decide it's out of date (you know, every six months) and can upgrade its hard drive when those increase in size and decrease in size (you know, every six minutes).

I should probably post my WWDC wishlist. I'm much more interested in what people want them to release than in what people think they will release. I'll even try not to cheat and rehash everything from my MWSF 2007 wishlist.

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  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2007
    There's the whole software side of it too! What 'secrets' are going to be revealed about Leopard? There's the whole OS Virtualization rumor mill... But maybe there will be something that kicks Vista DreamScene out of the water? Perhaps a dynamic 3D desktop that goes beyond just displaying an mpg file in a loop such as flashy effects as the mouse is dragged over.. changing colors depending on time of day.. some information display like dashboard gadgets layered 'behind' the desktop? Some catchup in the dictation/text-to-speech arena? And it IS a developer conference... Visual Studio for OSX? ;) Cocoa# (not that Mono hasn't done a good job of it ;)

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2007
    But none of the rumour sites are talking anything about the software side of things.  They're just talking about the hardware.  My cat can figure out that there are speed bumps in Apple's future.

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2007
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