Last-minute predictions: Share your WWDC best guesses

The banners are hung by Moscone with care, in hopes that new iPhones will soon be shown there... yes, it's only a few short hours until Steve Jobs takes the stage at WWDC 2010. What will we see, and what will we hear? The revitalization of Apple TV? A ship date for iPhone OS 4? New Mac mini, new iPhone carriers, or something completely unexpected?
As you bide your time checking out these delightful images of the keynote line and the conference setting (photos courtesy Glasshouse Apps and Adam Jackson), take a moment to tell us what you think will be revealed. In the comments below, make your best guess; we'll read them all (timestamped, of course, no cheating) and acknowledge the sharpest prognosticator.
Also, if you happen to be at WWDC and feel like sharing your images or videos, shoot us a note or a tweet, or simply tag your Flickr images 'tuaw'; we'll track them down.
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The banners are hung by Moscone with care, in hopes that new iPhones will soon be shown there... yes, it's only a few short hours until...
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I can't wait for a new iPhone!
June 07 2010 at 12:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyremembering that this is the developers conference...
the iphone is a given...
as far as mobileme, they have added dev hooks to make cloud sync more efficient and easier to incorporate into apps
apps everywhere -- appletv fits in here... but also on the mac mini -- get mobileme and iphone OS on the TV -- apps on the living room tv
dev tools, dev tools, dev tools to make apps everywhere, and mobileme syncing to anything
dev tools to push/pull across a mobile me subscriber -- iTunes and mobileme linking
apps everywhere (which includes iAds everywhere)
steve will show some new notes app written by a guy in a cave using the new dev tools that syncs through mobileme to all iphones, ipads, and appletv -- people will go "aww cool!" and I'll be drooling and running around like Cartman when he had to have a new chinpokemon
if any hardware can be spun to show the apps everyhwere / mobileme support everywhere, then it'll be announced
in fact, I'm going to venture that this is the theme .... making applications and mobile me work together and itunes support everywhere...
there's already over 100 million apple mobile devices floating around, well 102+ counting ipads...
adding the appletv and macmini, steve will show that they intend to double it...
for any developer, that should make them drool -- 100s of millions of installed users ready to press "buy now" on the app store...
nice
I'm going to go all out here.
* iPhone HD
* New/previously unseen iPhone OS 4 features
* iTunes in the cloud
* Free MobileMe (with paid upgrades)
* New AppleTV based on iPhone OS
* New Mac Mini, Mac Pro spec bump
price drop on iPad?
nope?
Okay?
A new framework along the lines of CoreData, CoreImage, etc. called something like CoreMobile (because CoreCloud sounds terrible), which makes MobileMe a Dropbox-like service for all users' data, but is called from within apps and implemented by the developer, with users opting in or out according to sensitivity/security of their data. This will bypass all the problems getting documents & data on and off the iPads/Pods/Phones. I can't believe they've released the iPad with its current terrible implementation of in/out without having something really big, really soon, standing by to fix it. That server farm in North Carolina's got to be for more than just streaming High Definition Video...
As an incentive, MobileMe as a basic service to become free for all new buyers of Apple devices & existing subscribers, premium service will come as an extra. You'll be able to opt to put your entire iTunes library on it with a bandwidth/data storage tiered pricing scheme.
T-Mobile as additional carrier, touting HSPA+ (downloads and uploads faster than Sprint's 4G). As with other T-Mobile smartphones, users will be free to buy the phone up front or over 20 month, no interest installments to avoid 2 year contracts!
http://bit.ly/bL4vP0
New iPhone (doubt will be called HD)
New Mac mini/Mac Pro/MacBook Air upgrades
Annoying demo apps for iPhone OS 4
Magic Trackpad
iTunes 9.2
iLife '10 maybe??
iWork '10 maybe??
Steve Jobs will ascend upon high from whence he came... promising to return when the whole computing world is converted from pagan PCs to holy apples. Then and only then will peace fill the planet and love-love will rule this land, forever and ever amen!
June 07 2010 at 11:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyiCeCream the new Apple flavoured Gelato ;)
June 07 2010 at 11:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI guess it will e sort of "Apps Everywhere" : On the (New) iPhone, One the iPad, on the Apple TV, on the Mac as a replacement for widgets and ven on MobileMe ( HTML / CSS / JS ) Therefore we will get a new XCode.
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