Bombastic Bunny

So, MacWorld approaches, a bit over 3 days from the point I’m writing this. As per my predictions post last year, I will try to give my ideas on what Apple will do next week. It looks like my predictions for last year were pretty good, just a bit early - maybe what I write today will be the same.

So far only one thing has been confirmed due to leaks - ThinkSecret leaked an image of the new spreadsheet app for iWork, which I think looks pretty cool (pinstripes ^___^) and should hopefully be a decent Excel replacement for basic users. There’s huge anticipation but nothing definite about an iPhone, and the rest seems down to conjecture (Leopard ideas, iTV ideas, iPod video, whatever.)

I’ll write this in sections for each piece of software or hardware involved. I’ll follow up on what I got right and wrong in the blog entry following this one.

Err, no I won’t. Sorry, all, but I accidentally overwrote this article and can’t find a copy to recover from anywhere. If you have one, please contact me. In essence, I made some predictions about Leopard being underwhelming, iPhone looking cool but ultimately being uninteresting (I compared it to a “new Razr”), and the possibility of an iMac and MacBook Pro update. I also talked a bit about looking forward to Pages 3 being a good word processing app. I said “Opinion of the event largely hinges on the iPhone and if it’s released. I expect reaction to be positive from people who enjoy shiny Apple gadgets, and negative from Mac developers who wanted more from Leopard.” I even had this picture there.

So, uh, whoops. I’ll try not to do it again. — SuitCase, 29th of March ‘07.