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TUAW predicts WWDC '08: How did we do?

by Cory Bohon Jun 10th 2008 at 5:00PM

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:
Let's see what we predicted:
  • .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
So, how did we do?
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.


What did you think of this year's predictions?
Loved them, you guys rock!81 (21.4%)
Good156 (41.2%)
Bad67 (17.7%)
Come on, you guys ruin every Apple event!75 (19.8%)


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MissingLink

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).

June 11 2008 at 3:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt Harlum

Enterprise functions on the iPhone were already announced a while ago, and the iPhone has played videos since launch.

Good ole TUAW...

June 11 2008 at 12:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dagamer34

Parts of your predictions sound like a wish list. New MacBook Pros? They were just updated 4 months ago! iTablet? Wishful thinking!

June 10 2008 at 9:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
julian

you guys def got my hopes up just to be crushed by steve
either way
you still did amazing

June 10 2008 at 7:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Facundo

What?
No Macbooks updates?
C´mon!!

June 10 2008 at 6:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tommy

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!?!

June 10 2008 at 6:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Adrian vG

Not many phones out there with Turbo 3G, though..

June 10 2008 at 6:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tony Hoyle

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.

June 11 2008 at 6:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zeromaru

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).

June 10 2008 at 5:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
badams

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.

June 10 2008 at 5:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Le Big Mac

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

June 10 2008 at 5:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Simon Arch

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.

June 10 2008 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shane Stout

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

June 10 2008 at 5:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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