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TUAW's Macworld predictions scorecard

by Dave Caolo Jan 10th 2006 at 10:30PM

Swing and a miss! When we made our pre-keynote predictions yesterday, we felt reasonably confident. Now, as the smoke clears, we can see just how far off we were. Let's review:

  • C.K. - black Intel iBooks running on flash memory. C.K. got the Intel part right. Partial credit.
  • Damien Barrett - a Mac mini media center with iLife '06, programmable remote. I really wanted to see this one come to fruition. Alas, it just didn't happen. I was with you on this one, Damien.
  • Dave Caolo - iLife '06 including FrontRow. Wow, what was I thinking? We did get iLife '06, but that was hardly a stretch. As for FrontRow...maybe next time.
  • David Chartier - a nearly-finished preview of 10.5 Leopard, with a release scheduled before Vista (like that's hard to do). I was wondering if we'd get even the slightest hint about Leopard. I guess we'll have to wait until the World Wide Developer's Conference.
  • Laurie A. Duncan - iWork 06 gets a major update, finally offering a viable alternative to Office for OS X. Partial credit to Laurie as well. At least Steve didn't refer to iLife as "...Office for the rest of your life" this year. Worst. Slogan. Ever.
  • Scott McNulty - Sell your songs on iTunes, publish your blog on .Mac, get your vlog streaming from Apple's servers. Scott scores on blog publishing via .Mac. As for Apple hosting people's vlogs...I've got my fingers crossed for that one.
  • Victor Agreda Jr - AirPort Express update that includes video streaming. Drat, this would have rocked! Are you listening, Steve?
Some of you scored better guesses that we did. Joshua wrote, "iLife '06 with iWeb...updated Mac Mini...expanded .Mac...iWork '06." Brad nailed "...Intel iBooks, 10.4.4 and updated iLife/iWeb." JayB wins the TUAW Dreamer's Award with, "The idea of the huge 50 inch plasma tv with built in computer seems like a feasible Apple product." Amen, brother.

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Smelley

I'll agree with you that that was a terrible iLife slogan, but I nominate the extremely annoying internet kiddie phenomenon of three words all followed by periods as Stupidest. Grammar. Ever.

January 11 2006 at 12:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
oSKAR

This years boom count: 17.

I voted "more than 10 so I was pretty good".

January 11 2006 at 9:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hesse

every mac intel will have front row. im almost certain on this

January 11 2006 at 1:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

Did you notice that the closing price of AAPL stock was $80.86? How strange is that?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL

January 11 2006 at 12:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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