http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

Leopard has the fastest ever take-up rate for a new Apple OS. By the way, Apple's actually selling new OSes to people with existing computers. The only way Vista ends up in anyone's hands is if they mistakenly buy a new PC with it preloaded. The Windows admin on my team completely gave up Vista and switched back to XP. Care to explain how on earth Leopard has a hard time networking? My experience has been that it's Windows that positively sucks at networks. It can't find wireless networks half the time, the update rate is ridiculously slow for no reason, and why on earth does a netsh IP change command take 60 seconds?

I have, however, heard that Leopard is buggier than most new releases have been. I've got Tiger at home and Leopard at work; Leopard works just fine but I don't see a very compelling reason to upgrade at the moment. I have better things to do with my time than spend a few hours backing up my files, doing a clean install, then getting everything the way I like it again. If it ain't broke...]]>Jan 20th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
They started to roll out leopard, but it caused crashes. tons of them. they rolled back to tiger. which is a problem in itself, because on intel macs, running rosetta chews up rediculous amounts of RAM.

So now my computer's got 4 gigs of RAM and still crashes.

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Many of the rumors were missed because Apple went above and beyond the prediction. For instance, Apple should get a 1.5 on the optical drive prediction. They also went beyond the Businessweek prediction on the ATV, given that Apple got Universal and Sony to sign on. Another 1.5. And 1 point for the NYT prediction, because Apple met it (but couldn't really exceed due to lack of specifics in the first place).

That makes it 9.5 by my count... almost 60%. That doesn't include things like the iPhone 1.1.3 update, which was rumored, and the added apps on the Touch which was not rumored (as far as I remember). Time capsule was a great thing that I can't remember coming up in any rumors, and they reduced the price of the ATV, so that counts too.

All in all, it wasn't so terrible... I'd say it was pretty darn good. Considering how much hype Apple gets, it's amazing they even meet 30% of their rumors. Compared with many of the companies at CES (yes, I'm talking large companies who should be hyped more than Apple but are not, for some reason), Apple does a great job trying to meet expectation with their products and services as well as deliver quality goods. I really wish some other companies were as responsible to their customers and stockholders.]]>Jan 20th 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
- 10.5.2 should've been released.
- Blu-Ray equipped machines (or atleast released an an add-on) released.
- Mac-Mini Revamp.
- Free iPod Touch to iPhone equivalent apps.
- DRM-Free Music (Though, the labels know what they're doing and I'm glad they're doing it with Amazon for a while).
- iPod Touch Shuffle/Mini.]]>Jan 20th 2008 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
Blu-Ray: Maybe the addon, or an option for it but having them in machines as a base option would jack up the price too much.

Mac Mini: The Mac Mini is fine.

iPod touch/iPhone apps: Yep, it should have been free for touch users.

DRM free music: Yep, should have had that as well

iPod touch shuffle/mini: The idea of a shuffle is so that you shuffle your music and therefore don't need a screen, and a mini would cannibalize the Nano, Classic and maybe even the touch's sales.

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The only other place you'll see it announced is at WWDC, and they would only do that if they were counting the second generation iPhones in their sales goal.

... and as much as I'd like to see some improvements in the second-gen, really they are minor... this phone is AWESOME and now that they added "faux-GPS" it effectively takes the lack of GPS off of my list of needs... so really, all I'd like to see is the speed boost to 3G and a much bigger hard drive. I can wait for those though.]]>Jan 20th 2008 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
Then again, that's what I said about Bluetooth, and now I have a Mighty Mouse and Bluetooth headphones.]]>Jan 20th 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
No. I never said updating products that have been out for more than several months internationally. Most of you 3G wanters fail to remember that most parts of the world (Including your Northern siblings) don't even HAVE the iPhone yet. If Apple released a new version, not only would it make things more difficult to establish with carriers but it will piss off existing customers who bought their iPhone's when it was released 3 months ago in their country.]]>Jan 21st 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
Just when you thought it would all end. :)

Just joking.]]>Jan 20th 2008 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/Jan 20th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/
Yeah yeah, I know you're all too smart to make predictions and stake your name to some shaky intel, but c'mon, own up. Which rumors did you fall for, which ones didn't you believe that came true, and most importantly, what did you THINK but were too chickenshit to say?

The readership demands answers! (Actually just an easy number like 7/16ths, checking up on you myself just seemed like too much work.)]]>Jan 20th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/macworld-2008-rumor-report-card-some-hits-mostly-misses/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/final-macworld-predictions/"

... But if you want to go by Ryan Block's personal blog... well, thats a different story altogether.
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