More Random Spewing on The Tablet/Event
It’s not going to have the word “tablet” anywhere in the name. The name will make perfect, “of course” sense once it is announced, and the name will likely be a common term that will be forever known as a name that changed computing as we know it.
Yeah, I went there.The mockups are all foolishly wrong. There won’t be any tiny UI elements (like the OS X menu bar), nor will there be any reused UI elements like the Dock, although I’m sure it will have a reimagined element which echoes the Dock the same way the iPhone Dock does.
It will not be offered for sale immediately. I’ll go out on a limb and say that they’ll ship it in March or April, but only because the summer “release slot” is occupied by the iPhone.
Speaking of the iPhone, my prediction for the “one more thing” at the event is iPhone OS 4.0.
Steve is going to need the “one more thing” for 4.0, because his three talking points will be iLife ‘10 (with a completely new, never-before-seen application), the tablet, and something else (which I haven’t the foggiest clue as to what it is). iLife ‘10 will run on the tablet in a perfectly optimized fashion, not a slap job.
There will be no mention of any new iPhone hardware, but advances in the SDK will lend to speculation of new hardware, and a “surprise” release of the new device will debut at WWDC.
I’m done here.
