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Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 Rumor Roundup

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With Apple's Worldwide Developers Conferece (WWDC) quickly approaching, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the big event.

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

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Without a doubt, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will take center stage at Steve Jobs' keynote address. Apple has sent out teaser invitations which read "See the future. Then take it home with you." Apple will be delivering a "feature complete" version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard at this year's WWDC. This means that any "top secret" features that they have hinted at for months will finally be revealed. The big news in April was Apple's announcement that Leopard would be delayed until October due to development of the iPhone. As a result, developers will be only getting a "near-final" beta copy of Leopard.

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Call me a pessimist, but does anyone else feel like this won't be a very exciting WWDC? Especially the "secret features." I'm still skeptical about that one.
 
I don't think this event will be much about hardware, it will be software all the way.

Think MR will be spot on about the Finder and possibly the UI, as I have said on the prediction thread.

iPod fullscreen, ultra portables, new iMac, Mac Mini replacement (Mac?) will all have to wait I am afraid.

This virtualization thing is a cloud-cuckoo land story as well as far as I can see. It makes no sense.

I could be completely wrong though.
 
hmm i don't see full integration for vista in a way to harm parallels..... Apple openly promote the use of Parallels and doing that would be like 'now we have the solution sod off' and i cant see that.

Really hoping for some good things from Leopard and i would be happy for new imacs as my gf wants one :p

Apart from that i am not bothered about anything but Leopard being in the presentation.
 
ppc_michael said:
Call me a pessimist, but does anyone else feel like this won't be a very exciting WWDC? Especially the "secret features." I'm still skeptical about that one.
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Yeah this round-up is making me feel sad, I think because we all expected Leopard at WWDC and iPhone! It would be a great one but now it just seems like a boring old conference where Apple might put SR in the iMacs upgrade the hard drive and say Oh yeah btw Leopard has this new feature when you can shout fart and it makes a fart noise. Thats all folks, Oh and one more thing !!!!! Developers please don't torrent your beta Leopard.
 
Gee this sucks the big one... by the sounds of things, the only people that would be interested in the WWDC keynote will be developers... :mad: :rolleyes: :p ;) Gee doesn't anyone here know what the letters WWDC stand for?!?! Shheech! :)

Dave
 
Mac-Addict said:
New cinema displays Pleaseeeeeeeeee.
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Out of all the rumors, I don't think we have heard anything on those displays relating to WWDC. They are freaking dinosoars! I want one, but I want a new one w/ a camera :p

Everyone saying that WWDC won't be that great, I have a feeling it is going to be much better than expected. Apple can't spend the entire keynote talking about a few Leopard features, can they? Steve said it will be a great year for a Mac, and I have a feeling that he is going to demonstrate that tomorrow!
 
So I likely see (with Leopard):

1: revamped finder
2: new UI

using core animation and resolution independence, along with more spotlight

3: ZFS

I am guessing:

4: remote locations (no matter what computer you use running OS X, iPhone/.Mac/ideally USB integration allows an identical environment
(this was originally going to be included in 10.3, I believe)

I hope:

5: windows apps to run natively inside OS X, similar to new parallels (WordPerfect, anyone?:) )

And of course stuff no one saw coming.

A note on displays: a camera on a 30" might be a little high to nicely show the viewer. Maybe Apple's camera-behind-pixels patent? That would be amazing.

-=|Mgkwho
 
Like many it seems, I'm really hoping for new ACDs. High-def, high-res.

LED backlit + higher res built in cam would be extra awesome but I'm not hopeful for those.
 
Looking forward to seeing what's in Leopard, though I can't say it's pant-wettingly exciting. I'd love to see an updated Cinema Display - something which will justify me splashing out on something to replace my 24" Dell with a pretty Apple replacement. Perhaps increased resolutions? Meh...no chance. :(

Anyone know what time it will start in Greenwich Mean Time?
 
I have no expectations for WWDC, so I shouldn't be terribly disappointed.:D

New displays would be nice, but I'm not in the market for anything Mac related.
 
doesn't add up...

This reads like 'no hardware' ... Which to me contradicts what I thought SJ said at D5 ''massive investment in desktops'' ... though I guess an operating system is a 'massive investment' but not just in desktops....
 
jbstingray said:
Same here! New ACD's! 24" with iSight, please! -jb
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Given that Apple is pushing iChat integration into third-party applications, this would be reasonable -- this way all Apple displays would have built in cameras. Announcing this at the developer's conference would make sense.
 
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