Comments on: Countdown to MacWorld 2009 Started today, predictions and magic balls

By: hihi

hihi — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:14:53 +0000

According to my calculations, if you divide the amount left to reach the goal of 1,000,000,000 apps, you have to calculate that the rate of apps being downloaded goes up at about 100 downloads every 1.5 seconds (estimate). If you calculate that amount to how long it would take, I approximate that it will reach 1,000,000,000 in 28.695 hours or so which means that it might reach it at 9:00PM April 22, 2009.

Note*: This doesn't calculate the fact that there might be an overflow in people when it reaches 999,500,000 or higher because that could change that stats by about an hour or two or more.

The Count right now is at 989,715,560

By: John

John — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:56:04 +0000

I'll guess that the main focus of this MWSF will be software. The MacBook line was just refreshed as was the iMac. I'm thinking the mini will see some sort of refresh. Without it the product line is a little too thin, too narrow. The really cool chips for driving new products won't be out till later next year (Nehalem). However, Intel might surprise us and I'll be wrong.

On the other hand, Apple has a lot of important things to talk about in regards to software. I think Snow Leopard will be bigger than Apple has let on. Not so much in terms of flashy changes to the UI (though there are rumors of a cocoa Finder). Remember how Steve made a strong point of saying that the important part of the iPhone was in the software. Apple has spent the last 18 months or so laying the groundwork for the near future of OS X. Steve could reveal a lot of Apple's direction for the next several years.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:32:21 +0000

Here's my initial list: New imacs, new mac minis, new Power Macs (maybe), 17" MacBook Pro, OS X Snow Leopard demo, iLife 09 demos, DRM-free songs from all labels, new Mobile Me (with iPhone push notification) demo.