Numbers: Mac Spreadsheet Program?

I have a suspicion that someone at Apple may actually be listening to me. Let me sketch this out for you: on June 5th, we posted our second podcast here at TUAW. In the podcast, I mentioned how I'd like to see something like what Pages is to Word come out in the land of spreadsheet programs, a Mac-branded version of Excel. I think I may have even used the word iNumbers.

Now, according to AppleInsider, a mere three days later on June 8th, Apple filed to trademark the term Numbers: "Described only vaguely by the filing as 'computer software,' Numbers may pertain to Apple's recently released graphing calculator application. However, the company in recent months has filed for other marks that more accurately describe that application, such as 'Graphulator' and 'Grapher' — that latter of which is used in the shipping version."

I hereby predict that Apple will come forth with a spreadsheet program for its iWork suite, named Numbers, and even should Steve Jobs himself descends from Infinite Loop and tell me otherwise, I will believe until the day that I die that the words I spoke in our podcast were heard by Apple's ear and made them decide to make this move.

Thanks, Barb!