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Inside View on Apple WWDC Rumors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rumor-grist-mill dept.

AppleLurker writes "In a recent interview with DVD newsroom an Apple employee talks WWDC rumors including the iPhone, Blu-ray, MacPro and the Apple Tablet. More realistic about what not to expect next week when Steve Jobs hits the stage." Apple's next move is always a hotbed of debate leading up to a product release and with all the rumors flying this year all bets are off until we see the checkered flag, so take with the requisite grain of salt.

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  1. Windows Vista? by abscissa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe if they announce Windows Vista at the WWDC it might actually materialise?

  2. Bets with salt by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Funny
    "...all bets are off until we see the checkered flag, so take with the requisite grain of salt."

    I think that the author should take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.

    1. Re:Bets with salt by bar-agent · · Score: 4, Funny

      "If we can hit that bulls-eye then all the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!"

      --
      i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
    2. Re:Bets with salt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      As Zapp Brannigan would say: "If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate."

    3. Re:Bets with salt by DarrylM · · Score: 3, Funny

      This person sounds a bit too... canned, short. Sentences. To be. Real.

      When did William Shatner become an Apple spokesperson?

      :-)

  3. Paging Strunk and White by eganloo · · Score: 3, Funny
    • "Apple's next move is always a hotbed of debate leading up to a product release and with all the rumors flying this year all bets are off until we see the checkered flag, so take with the requisite grain of salt."
    Meanwhile, it's full speed ahead for mixed metaphors!
    1. Re:Paging Strunk and White by Golias · · Score: 4, Funny

      Meanwhile, it's full speed ahead for mixed metaphors!

      Hey now, there's no need to be a wet blanket just because you're not ready to drink the Kool-ade. Some people are really revved up about the curtain being drawn back next week. I, for one, am on pins and needles while I'm holding my breath for the big fireworks.

      --

      Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

  4. Re:Why do people watch Apple with bated breath? by localman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, in my case it's because my girlfriend (well, wife) watches Apple with bated breath. I wish she paid attention to me like she does Steve Jobs!

    Cheers ;)

  5. Correction by blamanj · · Score: 4, Funny

    In a recent interview with DVD newsroom an ex-Apple employee talks WWDC rumors.

  6. That means that the keynote would be by eclectro · · Score: 3, Funny


    Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.

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    Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  7. Re:Why do people watch Apple with bated breath? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just a thought, but the problem might be that you have trouble remembering you're married...

  8. Elevator Photos by Kenshin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm still waiting for "elevator photos". The keynote hype is not complete until then.

    (Anyone who follows these things will know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.)

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    Does it make you happy you're so strange?

  9. Article is a bunch of BS!!! by DittoBox · · Score: 3, Funny

    At the end of the article

    At that point my Apple Confidante's phone went dead. Shaking, I heard the dial tone.
    AFAIC, this article is a made-up bunch of dog crap. When the other party hangs up on a land-line you don't get a dial-tone afterwards, just a black line. The dial-tone only comes after you've hung-up and picked up the phone again. That's my experience on all phones I've ever used.
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    Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
  10. What Apple really needs... by Carpe+PM · · Score: 4, Funny

    A realistic-looking accounting system. Enough to convince the SEC.

  11. Re:My guesses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Duel-care is the replacement for AppleCare that's going to be announced at WWDC. It's a lot cheaper than AppleCare, but instead of getting an RMA online or over the phone you have to go to an Apple store and defeat the Genius in single combat before they'll admit your machine is covered by a stealth recall and fix it for free.

  12. Re:Why does the tablet have to compete with MacBoo by Carthag · · Score: 2, Funny
    A gynecologist friend of mine has a Windows Tablet PC and hates it because of the crashing and small resolution, but he carries it because he doesn't look like a "troll or jeweler hunched over a laptop". He'll write on paper before he'll use a conventional laptop when he's with a patient. Apple is very good at making form factors everyone drools over.

    I don't think anyone would want their gynecologist drooling at work ;)