Uh. A first? The past Keynotes Steve has done has been on the Monday of the event since it's a Monday - Friday convention...
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WWDC 2007 Keynote Scheduled: Monday, June 11th 2007
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Uh. A first? The past Keynotes Steve has done has been on the Monday of the event since it's a Monday - Friday convention...
As has been said before 3 hours is prolly a scheduling thing just to cover. I would imagine any one person would go hoarse after speaking for 3 hours to a crowd.
It is a good point about the iMacs and macbooks since this is a pro-oriented conference. But if Macbook pro gets santa rosa or something else than it could trickle over to the macbook or iMac for that matter since it is a mobile platform.
Well, Stevie spent over an hour on the iPhone at MacWorld.
I'm guessing that (obviously) there will be iPhone info, mega
Leopard discussion, a complete refresh/change of the Cinema
Displays, and probably a long overdue update to the iMac and Mini.
Not to mention a rehash of Final Cut Server(since it will be available
in the summer) and Final Cut Studio.
I'm guessing that (obviously) there will be iPhone info, mega
Leopard discussion, a complete refresh/change of the Cinema
Displays, and probably a long overdue update to the iMac and Mini.
Not to mention a rehash of Final Cut Server(since it will be available
in the summer) and Final Cut Studio.
Still, I think it's rather early for that to come out and it just wouldn't be relevant for the iMacs and MacBooks to be updated, too. The MBP is a pro computer, but even the iMac got the Core2 before it. Still you never know.
iPhone developer platform would be relevant, cool, and fitting.
New Leopard features will probably come, but I wouldn't think they would be too much on the major side of the scale or else we would've known about it a year ago for the developers to prepare and all.
Among some of the things people mentioned, I'm personally waiting in the wings for some sort of MBP refresh (hopefully including better video card, larger HDD and higher res screen to boot). Annoying that it won't come with Leopard, but so be it.
3 hours isn't likely but possible:
Leopard new features/rehashes
iPhone
iWork and iLife '08 (I'm guessing they skip '07)
Restatement of NAB stuff
New Hardware
Leopard new features/rehashes
iPhone
iWork and iLife '08 (I'm guessing they skip '07)
Restatement of NAB stuff
New Hardware
No.
It takes 1 hour to get Jobs's RDF spun up, another hour to saturate people's cellular structure with the radiation from his RDF. That leaves 1 hours for the announcements and to get people to believe that the iPhone is what is delaying Leopard.
PS- Watch for the lights in the surrounding neighborhood to flicker as he goes into hour 3..
OK. 3 hours.
An hour on Leopard, and all the secret features. A release date might be announced, but probably not.
Half an hour on iLife '08, which will be released immediately.
Quarter of an hour on new iPhone features. I mean, if they had to pull software engineers off Leopard for the iPhone, it makes sense to assume that there will be a few new features that couldn't be demonstrated at MWSF because they weren't ready. If not, it'll probably just be "Oh yeah, iPhone is now shipping".
Half an hour on how iTV is going, how iPod sales are going, how iTunes music store is going, etc. Maybe some new iPods? Probably not. Wrong place, but as if SJ really cares.
Half an hour on the new Mac Pro, with Stoakley-Seaburg, and better graphics card options. New screens to go with them, just a good res bump.
One more thing... New Santa Rosa Macbook Pros, faster CPUs, higher res LED backlit screens, Radeon HD 2600, more RAM, flash memory, etc.
Probably not in this order, but this is my vote.
An hour on Leopard, and all the secret features. A release date might be announced, but probably not.
Half an hour on iLife '08, which will be released immediately.
Quarter of an hour on new iPhone features. I mean, if they had to pull software engineers off Leopard for the iPhone, it makes sense to assume that there will be a few new features that couldn't be demonstrated at MWSF because they weren't ready. If not, it'll probably just be "Oh yeah, iPhone is now shipping".
Half an hour on how iTV is going, how iPod sales are going, how iTunes music store is going, etc. Maybe some new iPods? Probably not. Wrong place, but as if SJ really cares.
Half an hour on the new Mac Pro, with Stoakley-Seaburg, and better graphics card options. New screens to go with them, just a good res bump.
One more thing... New Santa Rosa Macbook Pros, faster CPUs, higher res LED backlit screens, Radeon HD 2600, more RAM, flash memory, etc.
Probably not in this order, but this is my vote.
Steve often has other industry people giving portions of the keynote. Perhaps there's going to be more of that than usual.
All we know for now is that the event is at most 3 hours.
All we know for now is that the event is at most 3 hours.
Yeah, no kidding. Last year, Scott Forestall gave over half the Keynote! And at MWSF07, we saw Mr. Alabama brainwash our heads with the help of the Cingular Jack. Sheesh.
Looks good, I made a couple changes:
The whole iPod, iTunes,
TV, market share stuff at the beginning.Then Leopard features. I bet they will give the Leopard release date. iLife 08 will be released simultaneously with Leopard, because it uses Leopard features.
iPhone will be talked about, hopefully only for a little while.
Updated Mac Pro & Cinema Displays
One more thing... Santa Rosa across the entire line. MBP, MB, iMac, Mac Mini
There sure would be a lot of happy Mac fans if this did last 3 hours and Apple released all this pent up backlog of rumored stuff we've been wishing for for a long,long time.
It's probably just a block set though.
It's probably just a block set though.
you guys do realize that leopard is still being released in june right? it's just you're going to have to buy a new computer to run it.
My guess is that they will open a developer's platform for it, and they probably will spend a lot of time talking about it.
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I love how all the bloggers and other cell related people complain that the iPhone won't have third party apps, but do you think Symbian, Windows Mobile, Danger OS, BlackBerry OS, or Palm OS had any third pary apps on Day One??? They also don't understand that Apple is a much more mysterious company than HTC for example, and that Apple may say one thing, but really will do the opposite later just to fool people.
Sorry, that didn't really have anything to do with anything, but It's been on my mind for a while.
Looks good, I made a couple changes:
The whole iPod, iTunes,
Then Leopard features. I bet they will give the Leopard release date. iLife 08 will be released simultaneously with Leopard, because it uses Leopard features.
iPhone will be talked about, hopefully only for a little while.
Updated Mac Pro & Cinema Displays
One more thing... Santa Rosa across the entire line. MBP, MB, iMac, Mac Mini
Nah, iLife '08 will be released at WWDC, because that means I'll get it with my SR MBP. Unless you can think of some other way for me to get iLife '08 free? I mean, I can probably get Leopard by joining Student ADC. So, if I can get a coupon with Leopard and iLife '08 when I buy the MBP, that would be awesome. But I just don't see it happening.
And we'll see about the MB, iMac and MM. Maybe they will all be released, but only the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro will get real SJ Keynote time.
Even Jobs?
As for the time length....
In no particular order...
iPhone new features
iPhone features we already know about
Leapard Secret Features
Leopard features we already know about again
iMovie
iDVD
iPhoto
iWeb
Garageband
Pages
Keynote
Cells (or whatever its called)
Update on the Apple TV with a presentation from cue cards by some old movie exec
Update on the iTunes store and the 100,000,000th iPod being sold
New displays
New iMacs
New Mac Mini
New Macbook Pros
New Macbooks
Some super new product we never saw coming
Anyone know if they will still release the next version of XCode and Obj-C at the conference? or will this still only be officially released with Leopard?