found drama

Following up on my pre-MacWorld post…:

• iLife ‘06 is a given – – duh, zero points
• minor revisions all around – – of course (some arguably major), zero points
• with some new deployment of FrontRow and maybe Photo Booth – – FrontRow made it into the “MacBook Pro” but is as yet not all-Mac-wide…
• the iWeb thing is probably a red herring – – Nope. It was real. Zero points.
• the Podcast Studio thing is a minor possibility – – Rolled into GarageBand. Partial credit.
• (but that’s just me, I don’t “get” the podcast meme) – – I still don’t get “podcasting” (but I don’t get talk radio, either) but it’s an honorable mention because now we get PHOTOCASTING! (Points?)
• iWork ‘06 we’ll see, too – – Duh? Points.
• Keynote will get a minor update – – Easy. Points.
• Pages a major update (but not the one it needs) – – Sort of? Partial credit.
• and we’ll get “Numbers” – – Wrong. Points off!
• Hardware […] first round of Intel hardware will be the iBooks… – – Well it wasn’t a “Powerbook” but I don’t know if the “iBook” prediction counts. Zero points.
• …and maybe (just maybe) they’ll be stuffed with flash memory instead of a hard drive – – Not even close. Zero points.
• …Will Tiger be […] friendly for a January ‘06 launch of Intel-based hardware? – – Apparently Tiger will be just fine on Intel hardware. (Anyone else think this is a “Let’s get the proof in the pudding” kind of deal?)
• As for the iTheater thing… That would be cool and I hope to see something like that – – but it seems too “early adopter” – – Well, at least I got this one. But it’s worthless because this was the silliest of all the pre MWSF memes.

Geez, I’m terrible at this game.

Anyway… Of all the post-MWSF-announcements round-ups I’ve seen so far, this one from Unsanity is worth the weight of the rest in salt. If only for “ICBM”.

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