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January 10, 2005
Macworld - tomorrow's news today
Posted by Sandy
As Macworld predictions continue to fly, and Mac fans debunk last-minute fakes, here are my safe predictions for Tuesday.
Macworld San Francisco 2005
Keynote Address - Talking Points
INTRODUCTION
- We have some great things to show you today.
- Let's get started...
REVIEW RECENT NEWS
- best Xserve now offers dual 2.3 GHz G5 processors, 1.15 GHz system bus
- Xsan now available, starting at $999
- review holiday success of Apple retail stores
- new mini stores doing well
- new store openings planned for 2005
iPOD AND iTUNES
- over 230 million songs sold (compare to 30 million one year ago)
- review success of U2 music promotions
- iPod sales phenomenal
- iPod mini was not overpriced, nyah nyah
- review success of iPod photo
- review success of iPod by HP (Carly Fiorina onstage?)
MAC OS X
- more than 10 million active OS X users (over 50% adoption yet?)
- more than 10,000 native Mac OS X applications
- guest developers onstage (may include Adobe announcement of CS 2)
- Mac OS X "Tiger" coming soon, Microsoft playing catch-up
- review of Tiger features, including Spotlight, Dashboard, Safari RSS, Automator
- note Dashboard widget contest
SOFTWARE
- review sales success of iLife suite
- announce new features for iLife 05
- new JamPack software and/or hardware accessories for GarageBand
- new Apple software (rumored iWork suite could go here)
HARDWARE
- PowerBook update or 'speed bump' (last updated April 2004)
- new screen (16 x 9 ratio) for smallest PowerBook?
- eMac replacement or 'speed bump' (last updated April 2004)
- One More Thing...
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1. Kev on January 10, 2005 02:12 PM writes...
What about
- the iPod mini bump from 4GB to 5GB?
- improvements to .Mac?
- some words about Motorola iTunes phone?
- another Quicktime (H.264, HE-AAC) demo?
And I guess you think the flash-based iPod is the one more thing. But I think there is a second thing.
My bet is for the $499 home media device with hard drive, Superdrive, wifi networking, iPod dock, photo memory card reader, media network streaming, and the promised remote control. Runs variants of iTunes, iPhoto, Mail, iChat, iCal, iSync, Sherlock (channels), and Address Book.
- Perfect for people without computers. Low-cost entry into digital music, photos, and particular Web services like mail, IM, iTMS, .Mac.
- Perfect for iPod owners (and especially PC users) as a peripheral to use to buy iTMS songs and access music videos/trailers, and auto-syncing for both songs and photos. No longer need to use your PC for these tasks. And built-in library management for multiple iPods, especially the iPod flash/micro.
- Perfect for Mac owners as a single shared drive for streaming songs, photos, calendars to multiple users on a local network.
This product will complement and further drive add-on sales/bundles of Airport Express, iSight, iPod, .Mac, and Mac.
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