Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

My predictions, like many others were mostly off. So here’s my observations of todays festivities and announcements.
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It’s MacWorld tomorrow. I’ll be watching the net closely to see what the almighty Steve announces. I’ve got the following predictions:

• Mac OS X 10.5 Announced (99% Chance) - That means I get to be a geek and preorder from the Apple store.
• More Video/Movies On iTunes (95% Chance) - This will be a big focus since Apple really wants this market.
• .Mac Overhaul (80% Chance) - Don’t really care about this one personally since I don’t use the service.
• iTV (72% Chance) - I doubt it’s ready. Either an announcement to expect summer delivery, and/or a more detailed preview. I could be wrong, but I don’t think they are ready.
• Incremental Bumps For Various Computers (70% Chance) - Rather lame and generic for a prediction, but I think at least 1 computer line (most likely iMac, and Mac Pro) will see a speed bump. For the Mac Pro it would make most sense, since Intel just announced Quad Core Xeons.
• Airport Extreme 802.11n Edition (68% Chance) - The rumors exist, and I think there is a decent shot. They likely need it for iTV.
• Phone (60% Chance) - If it is, it will be the fabled ‘iPhone’, though likely under another name. Only reason I give it 60% odds is because of all the press. Otherwise I’d put it down to 25%. I don’t think it’s extremely likely, but there is to much press to ignore. Then again, I’m still waiting for my Apple PDA (ended up being the iPod).
• New iPod (51% Chance) - I’m going out on a limb here. Despite pretty much no press, I think it’s time for the full screen iPod, with a true chipset designed for the purpose of video. I mentioned this before.
• Software Upgrade(50% Chance) - Very likely some software, either an iWorks upgrade, or iTunes version.

So there are my predictions. I do believe it will be a very busy MacWorld with more announcements than usual. I expect volume to be one of the more notable things. A lot of things on all fronts. Not so much of a war on Microsoft, but a big grab at the “digital lifestyle”.

Lets see how I pan out this year.

According to Rob Enderle, I’ll be pre-ordering Leopard shortly after Christmas. Hopefully Leopard on PPC won’t suck yet. There still millions of us out there with those PPC chips.