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hey guys jon rettinger here with some predictions for you for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference also called WWDC coming up in june of this year Apple usually holds two big conferences he here macworld which they said they don't want to go in to attend and this new worldwide developers conference so naturally people are expecting big things so probably the list of things that I think we definitely see happen something we might see happen and some that are really unlikely to happen but possible so let's start off with these likely the first thing that I think we're definitely going to see is iphone three-point oh not 3g not only talking about OS three point out i'm talking about an entirely new iphone version 3.0 got a feeling they're gonna call it iphone pro i have no substantial evidence for that it just sounds like something they might do features i expect that we'll see on this new iphone a front facing camera for ichat but no secret that AT&T has been up in their network for faster download and upload speeds I think that's anticipation of the expected traffic they're going to be getting with this new video of track new video chatting certainly if there was just a new iphone with 3g capabilities the upgrade pod wouldn't be necessary certainly nice but it would not be a requirement i think apple is pushing a teensy to do the upgrades that could accommodate these new features next thing I think we're going to see is certainly increased storage Apple ordered millions and millions and millions of eight gigabyte flash cards for the iphone looks little flash drives rather and you think it's not enough what Apple actually does they stack up my tie to get your 16 gigabyte iphone I'd expected we're going to see a 16 gigabyte entry model and a 32 gigabyte premium model to be really similar to what Apple did when they release the iphone 3g with the 816 configurations i also think this is going to be the first time we're going to see a complete redesign of the iphone certainly there's not that much apple can do some things that i think we'll see in terms of a design i think we'll probably go back to a permanent Luminum look punk a plasticky plastic aluminum that makes sense sort of a metal paint on plastic i think as well we'll see appleton that in the past on the product actually comes across looking very very nice I think we'll see full 802 11 and wireless which means much faster transfer speeds I think we'll see more features that will be up in the iphone as well I think we're good they're going to talk a lot more about OS 3.0 and some of the things that may be a bit hidden from developers this far I think we're going to see internet tethering be announced certainly it's been no secret that that's been in OS three point out just a little bit hidden out away we're going to have video recording that laws and announced that either certainly mms the vertical keyboard cut copy and pasting that Apple talked about in their released OS through point O we talked about as well so some other things I think we'll see on new iphone I think there's a chance a slight slight chance we may actually see a physical keyboard on this version of the iphone it's I've heard from a friend of a friend who knows a guy inside of Apple that there is a prototype version of and iphone with a full qwerty keyboard sliding out to the side similar to the samsung impression that's been floating around the Cupertino campus well that's just a prototype or not I certainly can't speak to I would love a full textile keyboard physical buttons however having use OS three points a that using the keyboard in landscape is fantastic actually I make much much much fewer errors having it like that so there isn't a physical keyboard I certainly won't be disappointed I also think that the phone will be just a little bit thinner as well and could probably just stick as the flash modules will allow next thing I think Apple is going to spend a lot of time talking about is their newest operating system snow upper it's been a little while since Apple released leopard and I think that some leopard is probably primed for at least candidate or at least we'll be in June they're probably announced one is going to come out look people are expecting a september-october release but until now instead of release candidate is going to be more widely available to developers don't expect anything drastic with snow leopards not gonna have any new cool features are introduced like OS 10 leopard was you know when they introduced time machine stacks and ton of other cool stuff this step is mostly going to be under the hood so you're going to have a lot of increased speed a smaller footprint of the operating system and full compatibility with that some 64-bit applications and such so I think that some lepers going to be a big focus I'm sure we'll talk about some other new feature don't expect to be wowed just expect increased ability all i gotta say up and thrilled with leopard it's been incredibly stable for me so those are my definite things i think we're going to see we may see some spec bumps in the imac macbook a possibly mac pro line as well i would definitely say that that would be something that we're going to probably see as well so some of the possible things I think we might see I think we might see an updated imac design it's been a while since Apple released the aluminum imac the one that I you know a lot of you guys sees as well so i would say that a redesign is certainly not out of the possibility it expects something maybe similar to what the current apple cinema displays look like the apple lose the chin go with an all black bezel around it would probably be what I would anticipate coming again nothing revolutionary more of an evolutionary design change we may also see an updated map prodesign the apple just updated the specs but it's been quite a while since that design saw an overhaul it's very little what you can do with a tower desktop computer however I think that app will probably streamline a little bit possibly add a few more days they make it look a little bit nicer a little more modern to entice some of the pro buyers to look at the mac pro so some of the things i wish or probably doubtful but there is a little monica match ants they might come out first since been talked about quite a bit is a netbook apple supposedly ordered 10 inch touch panels while back millions of them people were anticipating we're going to be for a touchscreen netbook now when Apple does something as opposed to some other companies they spend a lot of time on the design crafting and the materials usually there's a price premium that you pay for that now when you're dealing with a computer that price points competition is around three or four hundred dollars it's a very susceptible to an increase in price so if you're going to netbook with all those fancy components the touch panel you're not gonna be able to hit that three or four hundred price markridge Apple has gone on the record saying so for those reasons I think a netbook is probably doubtful but those panels maybe for you know i i'm just going to speculate i don't know but i think in that book is probably not an apples market simply because it can get the price down low enough for it would be acceptable you've got the macbook air at 1799 figure over these a netbook at a six hundred other price point for a few hundred dollars more you can get a full fledged i'm at our macbook so i'm not sure that this really is a niche for that being said i would love an apple netbook they could find a way to make one affordable and a touch screen would be absolutely fantastic and who knows maybe even snow leopard allows them touchscreen capabilities in it so one thing that I think these touch panels might be used for and this is again speculation is an e-book reader an e-book reader to me just makes logical business sense it certainly fits in at the iTunes business model they have a great way to distribute the content itunes and they distribute that over the air via an 802 11 n trip built into this possible ebook reader they could be fantastic the Kindles made a lot of noise showing that the market for ebook readers is alive maturing and certainly growing you know in the life cycle of product it's definitely on its way up I think Apple wants to capitalize on that piece I would anticipate there's been reports of trucks and load and truckloads of people dropping off books at Apple's campus now Apple may just be refreshing their library or they may also be digitizing their own content which is actually a very interesting way for Apple to get the contact to you they don't have to go through amazon or barnes and noble twice and set they can actually license their own digital content right to their possible new e-book reader set would make sense that we falls into apple's business model and distribution model i think gets the possibility although if it is going to come i wouldn't expect it at WWDC maybe a special announcement a little later on in the year so guys it's just my son my predictions for the Worldwide Developer Conference I've been relatively accurate in the past with some of my sure things but some of my outlandish ones you know you never know everything with a grain of salt anyway guys hope you enjoyed for exclusive content sure to follow me on twitter twitter com / john for lakers i will see you in the next video I guess