MacWorld predictions

January 11th, 2008
Filed under: General | Huibert @ 11:00 am

We are just a couple of days away from MacWorld and everyone is playing the prediction game. That is really what it is, a game, as we all know that our ideas will probably turn out to be totally wrong.

Why all the excitement? Steve Jobs usually presents at MacWorld new products based on simple ideas that generally turn out to become extremely successful. The public reaction to the announcement is something like “Why didn’t I (or someone else) think about something like that?”. That is exactly why we keep trying, we want to prove that we can think like him. Whatever the results, it is a good mental exercise to keep us trying to think outside the box, within the limits of what current technology allows to produce at reasonable prices.

So, here it goes, these are my very own MacWorld 2008 predictions:

  • New, much cheaper, AppleTV (US$149 or more likely US$199), no Blu-Ray
  • Movie rentals
  • Improved video quality of videos sold through the iTunes store
  • No more iTunes plus, all tracks to become DRM free
  • iTunes 8.0 with transparent support for media libraries spread over multiple disks
  • Mac OSX 10.5.2
  • A new Portable Internet Device that can dock behind a large LCD screen, becoming a Mac. Unlikely but hey, where is the fun if all predictions are conservative?
  • 16GB iPhone

So, what do you think? Any chances I will not look as a fool on Tuesday? Probably not.

[updated to add a couple of predictions regarding the iTunes store]

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