What new & wondrous things will be announced at MacWorld'08 ?

No one who really knows can say, so let's all guess!

Well, two safe bets:
(1) Microsoft Office 2008
(2) iTunes Store offering "rental" movies.
(2a) a new version of iTunes (and a possible a minor update to Quicktime?) to support movie "rentals".

Speculative:
(1) Beetles catalog available on iTunes
(2) Steve will use the phase "the best thing we've ever done" at least once.
(3) iPhone with 3G support.
(4) "Ultraportable" notebook ("NanoBook"?)
(5) Leopard 10.5.2 ("This one works!")

1) A 16GB iPhone with a $400 rebate to existing owners.
2) Blu-ray support with 10 free movies of your choice - oh wait, no these will have to be iTunes downloads. Nevermind.
3) An uninstaller for Windows Vista
4) A new touch screen notebook without a keyboard at all. You'll just flick through a list of words (with multiple language support of course) to pick what you want to type.
5) an end to the writers strike so that Apple TV sales can resume. 100 left to go before breaking the 1,000 units sold barrier.
6) a cure for cancer - iCure
7) a cloning process so that Steve never has to step down as iCEO.
8) new LCD displays that are solar powered, glossy and at least half as thin as the older ones. Take that Green lovers.
9) New alliances with Sony, Canon, GM, Chrysler, Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari to compete against Ford's Sync and piss off Bill.
10) The iTunes store will be renamed: "iWaitforMovieDownloadsForFreakinEver".

(1) Adobe announces 110% Leopard compatible updates for versions of all their products.

(2) The EarBud iPod - "Our smallest product ever -- we've shrunk the iPod Shuffle to be completely contained in the earbuds".

(3) Adobe announces that "In the spirit of DRM-free iTunes music", they are discontinuing the activation process for Mac versions of their products "just like we used to pre-CS".

(4) Steve announces that OS 10.6 (code named "pussy-cat") will feature a new version of Time Machine which can go forward in time.

(5) Steve announces that 10.6 is targeted to ship "before Microsoft's next major OS revision".

1.) Inducting his daughter LISA to the Board of Directors at Apple.

2.) Exclaiming the Surgeon Generals warning that all FAT32 is bad for your cholesterol

3.) Proclaiming "LEAP DAY" Feb. 29th as the day all PC users can turn in a WIN Laptop to the APPLE store for a $500 credit toward a shiny new Macbook or Imac of your choice, and including Terry White's DVD "Mac OS X Training for Windows Users" as part of the deal.

As for the Vista uninstaller, well there's Ubuntu. Chuckle Chuckle, Guffaw, Guffaw. But I like the above idea much better.

Possible: iPhone "enterprise" enhancements:
(1) Availability of AT&T offering iPhone with corporate plans.
(2) Microsoft Exchange support

As I suspect you know, Apple announced new Mac Pro desktops (with up to 8 cores) and Xserves this morning. While Apple doesn't normally announce Xserves as MacWorld, that they announced the Mac Pro beforehand indicates that Steve's saving room at the keynote for other major items.

Earlier in this thread, Terry White speculated that Steve would announce "iCure"

If you've never seen the parody those geniuses at MadTV did of Steve Jobs announcing the Apple iRack, here's your chance:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw2nkoGLhrE  

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Another possible announcement:

Several months ago, Apple made a subtle modification to the OS X license agreement to allow OS X Server to be run in a virtual environment.

Perhaps VMware and/or Parallels will announce support for running OSX Server under them.

I'm looking for a subcompact notebook that docks into an iMac-like station with monitor & DVD. With luck, it will also have a touch screen. It won't be cheap, but it will be very, very sweet.

Phyl - Brings back memories of the duo-dock. "Remember when?"
An excellent concept that went nowhere. Hope it is revived, since it makes so much sense.

How about an iClient.

Features:

• Easy to communicate with
• Flexible schedule
• Continious work flow
• Generous budget
• Plays bills on time
• Never micromanages
• Holiday Bonuses
• Company car...

I can dream can't I?

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I still have a couple, as well as the full dock and a couple of mini-docks. They were great.

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Originally posted by Mary Jo Disler:
Phyl - Brings back memories of the duo-dock. "Remember when?"
An excellent concept that went nowhere. Hope it is revived, since it makes so much sense.

Business Week had a story today on the expected Apple iTunes movie rental announcement and claimed Apple will announce an upgraded Apple TV too.

(We've all heard the Apple TV has not had the degree of success Apple hoped for, so it's time for revision.)

Certainly plausible!

From Engadget.com

"There's something's in the air."

Interesting, that's the first time I have seen them use the Myriad Pro Light font in their advertising.

Here's a good article on the possibilities.

Okay here's my speculation on Macworld.

"Something in the Air"

You''ll be able to get XM Radio on A iPod Touch.

Wired has drawn up what they think the new MacBook Air might look like

..."An Apple insider told Wired today that the company's new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen, tapering at the bottom behind the keyboard.
"It's unbelievably thin," said the source.
The device is made of aluminum and glass, and uses the same design language as recent Apple consumer products: black on silver"...