Last-Minute-WWDC-Predictons

As everyone else I have my own little theories about what will be presented at this years WWDC Keynote. And as they are only based on wild guessing and whishful thinking as everyone else’s, I’m taking the risk of totally embarrassing myself on the internet by posting them here. Because predictions that are not told and that can’t be verified afterwards are worth nothing

• They will re-do (re-invent?) their consumer desktop line. The Mac mini and the iMac will be replaced. Maybe by a new mac mini and a new iMac. Maybe by something else.
• Leopards big secret new feature is Multitouch support. It’s obvious that Apple will introduce that sooner or later – they have a truckload of patents on it and it’s already there in OSX for the iPhone. This change is so significant, that it will have to be announced at a major release. And i doubt that this release will be as far away as 10.6…
• Many things not touched (no pun intended ) in last years WWDC Keynote could profit from multitouch-interaction. First of all the Finder.
• No major software feature without hardware that you can use it on: There’ll be something you can touch. And it will react.
• Mobile devices will get smaller: Who needs a DVD drive or a spinning harddisk? We have Flash RAM and fast networks. Together with less power consuming LED Displays we cen get good battery life on these things. They will come. Maybe today.
• CoreAnimation just rocks. Expect to see it everywhere.
• iPhone SDK: Cocoa, not HTML-Widgets. Because of CoreAnimation. HTML-Interaction, even with Ajax just looks old on the iPhone.

• CorePhysics API: When you move something on the screen via direct interaction like with your fingers, it has to react like a real, physical object: It has to have some mass, etc. There’ll be some kind of physics engine for UI elements.

  Remember, that these are just wild guesses, for just for the sake of the very fun game of guessing. I’ll be at the Grünfeld Bar in Cologne tonight at 18:00 to geek out with the Pl0gbar crew watching the Keynote, and see if I’m right

  Update: Hmm. No Multitouch, no devices, no new APIs at all. Wow. I got them all wrong. Maybe I can recycle these ideas fpr the next time, when they introduce 10.6. Because I still believe that Multitouch will be a killer feature. Of some device. Running some OS. And I still hope that this device and this OS come from Apple and that they will let developers do their things on it…

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