Just let us correct our little credibility issue then we can all start anew. Here are some of the things we’ve reported right in the past 2 years:
Mac OS X 10.4 exclusive images.
Apple studio display price drops.
Xserve & Xsan updates.
More Tiger exclusive tiger images.
iPod price drops and axing of “gold” iPod mini.
iPod photo specs.
Motorola iPhone in iTunes.
Mac OS X 10.4.4 update tomorrow.
Also in November last year we posted a huge list of rumors and updates, most of you laughed - but seems most of it was right now, aren’t you all so quick to forget! Here’s a quick breakdown of what we said:
Upcoming Powerbook G5.
iTunes 5, and some features.
The new iBook specs (in new colored casings)
Special editions black laptops
Mac OS X 10.6 “Lion”
Work on a 3D Mac OS 11
iWork ‘06
Upcoming 5th generation iPods
The camera iPod? “iPal”
iPhone
New bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Let’s now see what’s happened from that list of ours! First, the new iBook (now MacBook) sizes and colours. Second, I guess we misunderstood the “black promotion” but we got the gist of it, the black MacBook is rather “special edition”… iWork ‘06 was pretty much a given - but still. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, tick tick. Fourth, the 5th gen iPods. Well they’re being developed just not release yet! Also part of what we said transpired to the iPod video (40GB+ capacities). The iPhone not out yet so wait on that one. iPal is abit confusing - it WAS in development, but got cancelled. The team on it got split and half fired. Some of the ideas moved onto the proper iPod video project - including the camera but we’ve recieved no news on it since. The camera was accessed via the main menu (Main Menu - Camera) and displayed a PhotoBooth style interface to choose different filters with the touchwheel with photos saved onto the internal hard-drive and synced with iPhoto when connected to a Mac. iPod shuffle is due to be dropped from Apple’s lineup and was replaced by the nano, so again a tick there. With regards to Mac OS X 10.6, who knows what happened there - we were pretty dumb actually to even post that, but expect some of the features to appear in Leopard. Also Apple IS (and has been for the past few years) working on the next major series update - Mac OS 11. You didn’t honestly think that Apple could develop a major upgrade in 1-2 years, they’ve been working on this for ages and ages. Expect an all new file system and kernel, it’s going be awesome! The PowerBook G5 project got cancelled when Apple decided to swap to Intel, if the swap didn’t happen then you would have expected what we stated! So in conclusion, yes we have been wrong, but again we’ve been right more times and have reported many things before the “major” sites did - woohoo!
Anyway, enough about that. If you want to read the full report then this thread has all the details. No let’s leave this in the past and look forward to the future of Apple and MacShrine. Thanks to all those who have stuck by us these past years - it’s already our 3rd birthday in November!
