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TUAW predicts WWDC '08: How did we do?
The dust has settled from the stampede of announcements from yesterday's WWDC Keynote so it's time to take a look back at our predictions and see how we did! First, let's take a look at what was released at this year's WWDC:
- Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) seeds for developers
- MobileMe
- iPhone 3G
- iPhone 2.0 firmware ship date
- .Mac rebranding (with support for iPhone/PC)
- iPhone 3G
- Mac OS X 10.6 seeded
- iTablet
- Mac nano
- Flash on the iPhone
- Video on the iPhone
- Enterprise solutions for iPhone
- Over-the-Air syncing for "MobileMe"
- Redesigned MacBook Pro
- iPhone 2.0 delayed / ship date
Many of the things we predicted did actually come true (to our amazement!). We are extremely pleased with our predictions this year as we guessed everything that was released. All in all, we were 54.5% (6 right, 5 wrong) correct with our predictions. But we were spot on with the .Mac rebranding ("MobileMe"), 10.6 "Snow Leopard" preview, and the iPhone 3G / iPhone 2.0 announcement / delayed release.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Shane Stout said 5:14PM on 6-10-2008
Well done on stating the obvious and claiming them as your own predictions
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Keli Fancher said 5:25PM on 6-10-2008
Now no need to be harsh-the only obvious things were the iPhone 3G related information, which Steve Jobs alluded to himself. Snow Leopard and MobileMe were both great predictions.
But I do wish we would have seen a revision of the Mac Mini/Mac Nano Fusion-It would be perfect for my media center.
Adam Fisher-Cox said 5:23PM on 6-10-2008
Way to state the obvious and what everyone else said.
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Shane Stout said 5:29PM on 6-10-2008
Yeah to be fair the mobileme rebranding was spot on as was snow leopard which I actually thought was not going to happen this early on
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Le Big Mac said 5:30PM on 6-10-2008
Certainly were some "aggressive" predictions that didn't pan out, like the Mac Nano and a tablet. Guess your success rate goes down the further "out" you get
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Simon Arch said 6:23PM on 6-10-2008
To be fair, the Mac nano is a pretty realistic product. The mini is really long in the tooth right now and hasn't been updated in quite some time, so it's not unreasonable to expect a replacement product. The iTablet, OTOH, is pretty out there right now. I wouldn't object to something like an iPod touch with a larger screen, but it'd be pretty darned expensive.
badams said 5:45PM on 6-10-2008
The only thing I really was hoping for (due to various timing constraints) was a MacBook Pro update. All the other stuff (especially included what actually happened) was great at a sort of abstract level, but the MBP rev is the only bit that would have had any real impact on me before I got settled into my new job.
So, naturally, since that one didn't pan out, I'm bitter as a grapefruit, hold TUAW completely responsible for my disappointment, and am going to claim I'm upgrading to Windows BOB out of spite.
Ready?
I'm upgrading to Win... Win... Windows B... B....bwahahhaa. Nope. Can't do it.
Anyhow. I'll care about a new iPhone after (and only after) Erica'n'friends have a good method of freeing it from the clutches of AT&T. Till then, I'm off to get myself a current-revision MBP.
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Zeromaru said 5:53PM on 6-10-2008
Last I checked, WWDC is several days long. With this now two events in a row without a One More Thing, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there was a surprise second keynote focusing on Mac (which has also been conspicuously absent from several recent Apple events).
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Tommy said 6:14PM on 6-10-2008
Is this serious..??
I was one of the people in line for the first iPhone, but changed it out after a couple of months due to it's poor specs.
... and then... 1 YEAR after!!! apple basically only gives the new one 3G and GPS!?!?! WTF!?!?! first of all 3G is like getting kinda old... But it seems apple has some magic power that convinces us that this is the greatest thing EVER!!
Apple could probably re-launch the wheel and have people buy it... the iWheel: a little rounder than all the others, it's gonna change the way you view the world FOREVER!!
Seriously apple? in 1997?? WTF!?!
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Think Adrian said 6:48PM on 6-10-2008
Not many phones out there with Turbo 3G, though..
Tony said 6:58AM on 6-11-2008
The iphone supports HSPDA at a max of 7.2mbps.
Pretty much any 3G phone can match that. It's not special.
The iphone really needed 3G, but let's not blow it out of proportion.
Facundo said 7:00PM on 6-10-2008
What?
No Macbooks updates?
C´mon!!
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julian said 7:56PM on 6-10-2008
you guys def got my hopes up just to be crushed by steve
either way
you still did amazing
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dagamer34 said 9:14PM on 6-10-2008
Parts of your predictions sound like a wish list. New MacBook Pros? They were just updated 4 months ago! iTablet? Wishful thinking!
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LIV2 said 12:04AM on 6-11-2008
Enterprise functions on the iPhone were already announced a while ago, and the iPhone has played videos since launch.
Good ole TUAW...
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der said 3:59AM on 6-11-2008
Accuracy is never a good metric for evaluating predictions. What you want is precision (how many of the predictions came true -- rather low for you) and recall (how many of the events were predicted -- which is good in this case).
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