What will Steve announce tomorrow?

Posted by Bill on January 09th 2006

The whole “What will Steve Jobs announce tomorrow at MacWorld” has finally gone too far when it gets featured in the comic “Foxtrot”.

But since everyone else is speculating, I mine as well join in the fray. Let’s start with the list of things I don’t think will be announced tomorrow:

  1. Anything having to do with PowerPC based Macs. Everyone knows that Apple is moving over to the Intel platform and that they will come out sometime this year. Makes no sense to push one last PowerPC Mac since everyone will just wait for the Intel based ones later on this year.
  2. New Powerbook. They just announced ones in October and it is way too soon to announce another update.
  3. Plasma Displays. Because re-branding big screen TV’s worked so well for Gateway. Give me a Sony or a Panasonic any day….

Now how about some stuff that I think we may actually hear about tomorrow:

  1. the new IBook. I think this is probably going to be one element on the announcement tomorrow. The ibook line hasn’t been updated in a while, and while I think it may still be a little too soon for the new IBook to be Intel based, Steve may just be surprising us tomorrow.
  2. New IPod nano. Why not?
  3. More video content available through iTunes. With everyone from Yahoo to Google announcing new streaming TV content for download at CES, I think Steve is going to have to make a move to keep up.

Like most of these speculating sites, I am probably 100% wrong. So don’t get your credit card warmed up based on my recommendations. Just tune in tomorrow to see what the announcements are. Even though the Engadget guys are still probably jet lagged and exhausted from covering CES, I would expect them to LiveBlog the announcement tomorrow.

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