WWDC predicitions

The countdown to WWDC is officially on. Actually, I suppose it’s been “on” for several months now. The countdown for when it starts is on. Hmm, well, that’s the same thing. Anyhow, the conference starts on Monday.

Unfortunately for me I won’t be able to make it this year. There was this thing I had to do with this stuff in order to be ready for that event with those guys, you get the idea. We will have a couple of engineers out there though. If you want to meet up with them look for anyone from the Xcode team that is hiding behind something. Chances are excellent our people are nearby looking for them.

For kicks and giggles today I walked around and posed asked some of the Mac folks here what they expected to be announced at WWDC. (And what that wish would be announced.) The want consensus was definitely an iPhone SDK along with a smattering of super cheap iPhones or free Macs. Ironically, given those options, the iPhone SDK looks downright plausible.

What people think will actually be announced varied a little more with things like iLife/iWorks updates, an iMac revision, and some manner of Mac OS X UI change. (CoreAnimation has to be used for something right?) I’m thinking it probably will be some manner of UI change and if Jobs really wants to bring down the house an iPhone SDK.

So I guess if I had to make a wager, horse racing style, I’m in for $2 on a UI update to place, $2 on an iPhone SDK to show. I could even pull an exotic and box those two on an exacta but I’d probably just be throwing away money at the point. It will be interesting to find out, just a few more days until post time, err, conference time.