We'll always have Paris... or will we?

A banging iPhone or Newton relaunch would force me into the market. ie make me buy something I don't _need_ but would _want_.

Apple will not make a PDA. Sony have pulled out, Compaq/HP have had slowing sales for the last few years - it is a dead market. Apple won't make a tablet either. They haven't been selling as well as many had hoped. Apple's customers don't want a tablet - they what DVD burner and 3D graphics cards, not little mini computers that you can't do that much with. Some of you may remember some rumours about doing something at the V Festival in the United Kingdom. Well, by coincidence, that is this weekend. A few hundred thousand young people, all into music. Sounds like a perfect plan to me. Make way for an iTunes/iPod phone. Designed by Apple, made by Motorola.

5G iPod with Bluetooth. Following in line with the Mighty Mouse...Powerbooks with (gasp!) two buttons.

I hope they ship a Mini with a built-in LCD screen. Oh, wait...

There will be some inevitable transformations to the iPod shuffle and mini line soon because, for now at least, Flash RAM prices are falling faster than micro-hd prices. We are about to reach a point where 4 gigs of Flash RAM will be the same price or cheaper as 4 gigs micro-hd. There has been rumors about a 2 and 4 gigs iPod shuffle, but obviously with no screen it doesn't make sense. So here are the possible scenarios: 1-Apple adds a screen to the shuffle and up them to 2 and 4 gigs, while upgrading the minis to 6 and 8 gigs. (or 8 and 10?) and add color screens. Prices would remain the same (some increase on the high end shuffle maybe?). 2-Apple adds color screens and up the minis to 6 and 8 gigs. At the same time they drop the price of the current shuffle to 69$ for the 512mb and 99$ for the 1 Gig and no screen are added. Then, still on the same day they release: a Flash based 4 gig iPod mini with a b&w screen for 149$ One third the thickness and weight, it would be a little shorter and less large than the color hd based mini. It would operate just like the current b&w minis, but with Flash memory. It could also probably reach a 22-24h battery life. Maybe it's a little extreme, but I'll go with number two. Maybe not in Paris, but before the end of this year. "A thousand songs in your pocket, 4 years later, now for only 149$" People that still have this ridicule notion of Apple being a company that is elitist and only aims at "higher-classes", wont see this coming (I guess the Mac mini and iPod shuffle weren't clear enough signs). It obvious that Apple will have to cater to the low end if they want to keep the iPod market share dominance. In 5 years, the components of an 20gig iPod with color screen will retail for about 50$ Does the masses really need/want 100,000 songs on a 120 gig 300$ iPod? I don't think so... If people can have an iPod with 1000 to 5000 songs for 100-200$ then this is where the market will be, and you can bet Apple already plans to be there too. Video may help to sustain the high-end iPods when they reach 80-120 gigs, but the bulk of the iPod market (people looking for a music player) will shift from the middle range to the low end. The iPod brand is strong enough that even at the commodity level, it probably wont get diluted.

The first Intel-based Mac--the brand new Mac minis. The new PowerBooks will be release some other date, since only minor improvements on the machines.

A G5 eMac I don't think so not anytnime soon.

- We will see the debut of "Gigawire" - the new generation of Firewire and a new universal standard to take on HDMI. Sony is going to put it on all of it's audiovisual gear and it will be the idiot-proof solution for linking in and out of all digital TV's, set-top boxes, HD video cameras, audio amps, still cameras, computers, monitors, MP3 players etcetera, etcetera. - iPod photo will sync with all digital cameras without an add-on gadget. - Mac OSX will run games written for Playstation 3. - Mac OSX will be processor-agnostic for the forseeable future. Why would they throw out the PPC version if it was so clever to have an x86 "just-in-case" strategy. - There will be a PPC G5 Powerbook and it will be fantastic.

I patiently read through all 29 previous posts and I don't think anyone said it yet... iPony!!! It would be all white and real shiny. And it comes standard with 512 horsepower. It will be better than Microsoft's fall 2009 release of WindowsMule, which will be billed as "a half-hearted, yet ernest attempt to possibly compete in some smaller markets with the iPony" by Microsoft's equestrian product developer. reference post: http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/11/microsoft-to-release-ipod-killers

So now it seems that one major announcement may be the deal to offer iTMS purchases through Google. Hmmmm... They're really sticking it to Bill aren't they?