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Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference begins tomorrow with Steve Job's keynote. MacRumors has a good overview of what's expected:

Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2006 Rumor Roundup

As always before an Apple event, the Internet is rife with speculation, Apple's future product plans serving as a Rorschach blob (1) for people to project on their own desires and dreams for the future of personal tech.

My submissions to the Dead Wrong In Public game:

No ipods (they always get their own special event)
No iPhone (would probably gets it own event, of a shared event with ipod)
New intel-based X-serves
New intel-based Mac Pros
New content development tools for extending the iTunes/ITMS ecosystem (basically preparing the world for a completely Apple-based end-to-end content creation and distribution system) I anticipate in the next 12-18 months Apple will be opening up the "long tail" of media distribution, allowing people to make and sell music and movies using the ITMS, as a means of telling Hollywood that if they don't plan nice with putting movies on the ITMS, then Apple will simply sidestep them entirely.

As for Leopard, I would realy like to see improvements to the Finder and Spotlight. Spotlight has so much potential, but as currently implemented I find it annoying and often wish for the days when you could just type command-F and search file names very quickly. I also think networking could be improved a lot-it's still much more trouble than it needs to be to transfer files between machines, not to mention keeping two machines in synch. I agree with the latest date speculations which is that Leopard will be officially announced (what's happening at WWDC is only a "preview') at Macworld 2007 and shipped a month or two after that.

Steve Jobs's keynote starts at 10am tomorrow, and will be covered like by MacRumors.com at http://www.macrumorslive.com.

1 - After reading the wikipedia entry, it seems that, like a lot of people, I refer to Rorschach tests incorrectly. I'm using it in the sense of "people look at it and see what they want to see."