It’s the day before the apple event tomorrow and as expected there’s speculation of what steve will announce. I’ve been expecting this particular event for a while. Apple appear to be showing a picture of a lion, which has surprised me, as i never expected them to pick this big cat. What I was/still am expecting is tomorrow to be the end of os x ad for os xi to be announced.

my expectations of the next mac os are rather high, as if i remember correctly, snow leopard was just supposed to be a refinement on leopard. i’m expecting that apple have learnt a lot from ios recently, and it would be nice to see the addition of an app store for mac and a focus on smaller apps for os 11, much like that of the iphone.

i feel that itunes has become just a massive bloat of mess which is bursting at the seems, i would love apple to have itunes just a music player, and for apps to be separated out, movies to be in a movie program, books another and so on, just like they are separated on the iphone and ios devices.

its would just be amazing if they had itunes just a music player again on the mac platform and called it say….ummm…ipod….?

one addition that i would love apple to focus on, however i think this will be extremely unlikely is for the addition of an online backup service. one thing i have come to realise over the past few months and weeks is that time machine and time capsule are all good and well, except if theres a fire, a flood or a robbery, you will still loose your mac and your backup making it all pointless.

will the new apple os be touch, i dont think so, but lets see, i still think the purpose of a desktop is for high performance work and multimedia production, and i just dont think a touch interface is suitable for this! this is where the gap between who actually needs a desktop os and who just needs an ipad will begin to grow in the technology market, its going to be interesting.

i think that the white iphone will be released tomorrow

I also think that apple will make a new version of time capsule which is raid, my evidence for this is apple resent dip into the small business market with the mac mini server.

Lots of people have been saying an 11 inch macbook air. I think that we will see a new macbook air, same size screen. I think the 11 inch screen will be a smaller version of the macbook pro.

As to any of the major features of the new mac os that will be announced i actually have now idea, apple wouldnt be apple if i knew what they are going to announce.