Time to jump on the rumour mill and predict, with scary accuracy what Apple’s event due to take place at the end of January (’10), will hold.
Update: Looks like once again I have been spot on with my Apple predictions. I have linked to stories confirming my assertions where appropriate.
Mac OS X Touch
The new name for iPhone OS. Currently the iPhone OS runs on iPhone’s, iPod’s and inside developers Mac Pro’s.
It’s time for a name change — Mac OS X Touch 1.0. It will effectively be iPhone OS 4.0, we might get a few 3.x updates to smooth the transition but by the end of 2010 iPhone OS will be dead — Long live Mac OS X Touch.
Features
These features all taken form my musings on Twitter.
API
- Voice Control API
- Low level camera API
- Bluetooth API
- launchd API (instead of multi-process support)
- Data detectors API
- Advanced gesture API
- UPDATE: Advanced iSync API (for 3rd parties)
Updates
- USB support (for iSlate)
- Extra non-standard WebKit extentions
- UPDATE:
No Flash supportDefinitely no Flash support - Multi-camera support (see Apps below)
- Video output
- UPDATE: Handwriting recognition
Interface Updates
- Animated springboard icons
- Advanced App management
- Lock App positions in springboard
Apps
- iWork App (instead of file system) [MacRumours.com] [AppleInsider]
- iChat [Orange Exec Confirms Apple Tablet Is On The Way]
- UPDATE: Remote Desktop App
- UPDATE: Apple TV App
Tags: API, Cocoa Touch, iPhone OS 4.0, Mac OS X Touch, WebKit