The following are community-driven predictions for the Macworld 2009 conference to be held in San Francisco January 5-9, 2009.
The "Community Consensus" percentages equate to the community's feeling on how probable an event occurring (or not occurring) may be. Click through to view the probabilities, and place a bet of your own.
Additional predictions will be added to the lists below in the coming weeks, so check back as more rumors begin to surface.
The Industry Standard's Macworld 2009 predictions open for bets are:
- Apple netbook?
- Apple Mac tablet?
- iPhone Push Notification Service restored?
- 64GB iPod touch?
- Flash for the iPhone?
- Is a Verizon iPhone coming?
- Official iPhone tethering?
- Apple announces 32GB iPhone 3G?
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)?
- Apple announces Chinese iPhone launch?
- Apple to sell eBooks?
Related predictions:
- Apple announces iMac retirement by December 31, 2009?
- Apple iPhone outsells Blackberry in Q4 '08?
- Apple bundles unlimited iTunes with iPods, iPhones?
- Zune Phone announced by end of 2008?
- Google Chrome Mac version out by end of 2008?
Comments
There are a few active suggestions that need votes to become playable predictions ...
1. AAPL (Apple) stock breaks $115 by MacWorld 2009
2. Apple to announce networked HDTV at MacWorld 2009
Other related predictions:
1. iPhone HD or iPod Touch HD becomes available by end of June 2009
2. $99 iPhone 3G to be retailed at WalMart by end of March 2009
3. Apple announces iPhone/iPod Touch to be available in chromatic colors by end of June 2009
4.Apple to announce its own search engine by end of June 2009
Correction: #4 for MacWorld should say "iPod Touch" instead of "iPhone Touch". Suggestion title has been corrected already.
I fixed your typos, David. We're going to be adding to this list today and tomorrow.
Thanks!
Was it just me or was MacWorld 2009 keynote a complete snoozer? Yawns .....!
I would tend to agree, David. I think this is partly why Apple is killing their direct involvement headlining these rigid calendared events. They can't be expected to release an iPhone every single year.
There were a couple of nice announcements, but from a hardware perspective I think the keynote wasn't the worst ever, but not the greatest, either. Sort of exiting Macworld with a whimper.
That being said, I thought Schiller did a fine job presenting, and the absence of Steve wasn't as painful as I feared it could have been.
What was disappointing was that so many rumors were simply made up fantasy: iPhone nano, Verizon iPhone, tethering, Mac Mini, Apple TV, iMac, etc.
The new 17" laptop makes some important technological advances, but I think they chose their worst performing machine to use the "early adopters" as guinea pigs.
Everything truly important, IMO, was related to software. iWork.com, "learn to play" garage band, DRM, facial recognition photo organization ... Stuff that wasn't even on the radar.
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