azentropy
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Unless Apple is completely changing the plan for AppleTV and opening it to/for developers I don't see anything happening at WWDC. Remember this is a developer's conference.
Steve Jobs to Give June 7th Keynote at WWDC
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Unless Apple is completely changing the plan for AppleTV and opening it to/for developers I don't see anything happening at WWDC. Remember this is a developer's conference.
arkitect
macrumors 604
brand name soda! WOW!
how about an open bar? that would be awesome.
Nope.
No Soda brandname or otherwise.
This is the drink of choice
V V V
Fingers crossed for OSX 11 with 3D desktop, matching 3D display MacBook Pro and support for 3D TVs with camera gesture recognition. Oh and 1080p.. all through some a lovely pair of iGoogles .. err I mean iGoggles that we can all game inside the movie.. iJest
I suspect the iPad will actually canabalise a large chunk of the low end macs for those that just surf, arrange their photos and read email - a mobileme + iPad would do that.. which really reduces the impact of those basic aspects of iLife.
Steam - gaming? Well that's a driver but PC gaming is dying as the consoles have made considerable inroads in to the market. Will Apple announce a games/TV console? It would seem a good bet as it aligns with their strength of producing consumer computing devices..
Thing is that Apple's following the money as any business will. That currently is in the consumer iPhoneOS area. Apple's strengths within the digital media that are being widened.. realistically that's
With Jobs presenting it's likely to show the next implemented step of a vision.. which involves moving into new markets where Adobe (iBooks vs Adobe's Digital rights mechanism), Google (well we all know here) along with more integration.. new versions of iWork etc..
Will Blu-ray utter from Jobs' lips.. I doubt..
I suspect the iPad will actually canabalise a large chunk of the low end macs for those that just surf, arrange their photos and read email - a mobileme + iPad would do that.. which really reduces the impact of those basic aspects of iLife.
Steam - gaming? Well that's a driver but PC gaming is dying as the consoles have made considerable inroads in to the market. Will Apple announce a games/TV console? It would seem a good bet as it aligns with their strength of producing consumer computing devices..
Thing is that Apple's following the money as any business will. That currently is in the consumer iPhoneOS area. Apple's strengths within the digital media that are being widened.. realistically that's
With Jobs presenting it's likely to show the next implemented step of a vision.. which involves moving into new markets where Adobe (iBooks vs Adobe's Digital rights mechanism), Google (well we all know here) along with more integration.. new versions of iWork etc..
Will Blu-ray utter from Jobs' lips.. I doubt..
patent10021
macrumors 68040
You mean Coke instead of Tahiti Treat?
What's Tahiti Treat?
DontMacTheGyver
macrumors regular
woops
I think we'll finally see blu-ray support in the new Mac Pros and maybe the Mac Mini too. If that happens I'll be buying both models. I want a Core i3 in the MacBook Air too it's really fallen behind the times on specs.
I hope you're just being sarcastic. Doubt we will be seeing some of those for a while, if ever again.
Sweetbike40
macrumors 65816
Do we think he will be announcing iPhone on the 7th? Or do they wait a couple days? Don't know how it was handled past years.
johnnymg
macrumors 65816
First day announcement for sure!
There has never been a time over the last 4 years or so that I wasn't disappointed in an Apple "announcement" event. I'm sure this will be no different. It's usually underwhelming and frustrating that Apple don't put all the available technology into their existing device because they want something for the NEXT device - heck, the iPhone just just NOW getting a camera flash, multitasking, folders and (possibly) an HD screen, things it should have had 2 years ago. This is also the same reason that the iPad and the Touch don't have cameras and the iPad only has 256MB of RAM. These game playing tactics by Apple might have worked with the weak competion they have had in past years, but if Apple KEEPS playing this game with us, Android is certainly going to gain ground much faster than they already have.
This year, the ONLY thing that I REALLY REALLY want is a 64GB iPhone, which will be the only source of potential disappointment for me. As such, I'm SURE that Apple will not offer one this year.
Tony
This year, the ONLY thing that I REALLY REALLY want is a 64GB iPhone, which will be the only source of potential disappointment for me. As such, I'm SURE that Apple will not offer one this year.
Tony
All of these macs I mentioned have updates expected soon:
https://buyersguide.macrumors.com//
So the odds are very good of exciting product refreshes.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out what is likely to happen. Steve Jobs wouldn't be doing the keynote if he didn't have big announcements to make. And I have my credit card ready for the new macs...
They will 100% surely announce the new iPhone on June 7, but most likely it won't actually be sellng until Friday June 11 at the EARLIEST, but more likely either June 18 or June 25. Fridays at 5 PM have been the release times that Apple has used in the recent past.
Tony
Can't wait to hear this one, hope they have some big announcements to raise up the heat on this new google war
Remember that that S.O.B. Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board so he probably was in on the long term strategy meetings. Google's recent bloviating may have been an effort to blunt any WWDC announcements.
We'll see.
johnnymg
macrumors 65816
I couldn't disagree with your comments more. Apple is managing this revision process brilliantly. It creates tremendous anticipation for each new product release. Like feeding crack to a bunch of nerd addicts.
cheers to the longs
JohnG
MattG
macrumors 68040
bdkennedy1
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I'm hoping for a preview of OS X 10.7. Otherwise we have to wait another year.
My point is that these tactics have worked for Apple in the past, but are NOT going to work for Apple in the future with HTC and Google hot on their trial. My 11 month old iPhone 3GS looks very dated to me now. I don't know that they will do enough to catch up in this 4G version based on what the protype looked like, although they can go a LONG way with offereing a 64GB device that no one yet has. Capacity for me has been the iPhone's / iPod's biggest selling point, but even there they have been slipping since the Touch currently tops out at only 64GB.
BTW - I also love how all the fanboys wet their pants when Steve Jobs emailed that "you won't be disappointed". HA - He says this EVERY time! I mean, what's he GOING to say, that you WILL be disapointed?
Tony
Unless they are introducing an SDK for it, in which case it's the perfect venue to launch an iPhone OS based AppleTV.
The AppleTV doesn't need an SDK, and that's the entirely wrong approach. I imagine Steve is pretty giddy right now at Google's epic errors regarding the Google TV.
What AppleTV needs is integration with the iPad. Since the iPad is really the first living-room computer people are going to be sitting on the sofa with their iPads and a big screen right in front of them. When they come upon some video content they'll want the ability to dump that stream up on the big screen.
It's as simple as that -- nobody needs reheated WebTV and nobody's going to be using multitouch apps/games on a TV.
What AppleTV needs is the same as what iTunes needs - video CONTENT. The iTunes store is very weak on movie content.
Tony
flottenheimer
macrumors 68000
June 7th is actually pretty soon.
Gotta love that.
Gotta love that.