WWDC '06 Predictions
I don't know if it's just me or does no one else think that announcements such as an iPod mobile phone, iTunes movie rental service or a new iPod nano would be simply inappropriate for the keynote of a "Worldwide Developer's Conference"? I mean, seriously, have you looked at the kind of news Apple has announced at the developer conferences before?Since I have the pleasure of hosting about ten gigabytes of Apple keynotes on my hard drive, I can list these for you:
WWDC 2002
- Apple previews "Jaguar" and declares the death of Mac OS 9
- Apple previews iChat
- Apple previews QuickTime 6
- No product announcements
WWDC 2003
- Apple previews "Panther"
- Apple introduces Power Mac G5
- Apple previews iChat AV (as a Panther technology) and iSight (as a companion product)
- Apple introduces Safari 1.0
- Apple introduces Xcode
- Apple previews "Panther" Server
- Apple previews "Tiger"
- Apple introduces new Cinema Displays (20", 23", 30")
WWDC 2005
- Apple announces switch to Intel processors
- No product announcements (unless you're counting iTunes 4.7 with Podcasting)
If there has been a venue for announcing iPod and iPod-related products, it has been the less hardcore Macworld or an Apple Special Event. Let's look at the dates of iPod announcements, in reverse chronological order:
- iPod with Video 5G - 10/2005
- iPod nano - 9/2005
- iPod with Color Display - 2/2005
- iPod shuffle - 1/2005 (Tink! Macworld)
- iPod photo - 10/2004
- iPod with Click Wheel 4G - 7/2004
- iPod mini (Second Gen.) - 1/2004 (Tink! Macworld)
- iPod with Dock Connector 3G - 4/2003
- iPod with Touch Wheel 2G - 7/2002
- iPod with Scroll Wheel 1G - 10/2001

The products that I think are more probably going to be announced are these:
- New Macintosh workstation
- New Cinema Displays to go with new workstation if they did a redesign of the case
- New Macintosh server
- Updated MacBook Pros with Merom chips (granted, this is more 'hoping' than 'expecting')

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