My predictions:
1. ‘ITV’ available right away, has a HD but no DVR capabilities. When this was first announced in September, I was really exited. Not so much anymore, it’ll really have to be something revolutionary to rock. At $299 (which will probably translate to about £220 [well above the regular rate]) it’s well over priced. You can already get software for Wii to play shared iTunes music and I think video will follow soon. The Wii is £180.
2. Refreshed display’s. 20″ goes HD, 23″ goes 24″ and all of them go iSighting. I don’t think there’s gonna be anything bigger than this for a while, user interface would have to change a lot. Try moving cursor across two 20 inch displays. Yes, it’s quite a trip.
3. Previewing Mac OS 10.5. New Finder, cool new features that were still secrets in WWDC. Time Machine gets an overhaul from what was shown in August, it’ll stop looking like Star Wars and more like a real application. Available by the end of March.
4. Apple Phone. (hey, you’ve gotta believe in fairy tales) US only for quite a while, unfortunately. But then again, that’s not really gonna matter as, although it’s made by Apple, it will not be able to beat the forthcoming Nokia N95 (check it out, it’s the new pinnacle of mobile phones.)
5. Octal Mac Pro. This, you could maybe say, is already delayed taking that the processors have been out for a while. They will be really fast theoretically.
6. iTunes TV show and movie downloads available in some select European countries. But as long as you can use bit torrent to get HD content for free and only 480×640 from iTunes, it’s not gonna pick up (this is not to say that I would use bit torrent to download content I don’t have a license to use).
And obviously iLife ’07 and iWork ’07(with addition of spreadsheet application)
Also, there’s gonna be some other really cool shit. Taking how Apple’s been hyping this, it’s gonna rock our socks off. I’m betting we’re gonna see 3 ‘one more things’. None more, none less.
See you all soon,
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