[Macworld]

Post your comments for Mac hardware figures to be MIA at WWDC here

[Ambrose_Chapel]

Except that Apple just updated the white MacBook to make it faster than the low-end unibody MacBook...makes me think laptop upgrades might be on the agenda.

[BJWanlund]

Just a nitpicky thing: You didn't put the original iSight in bold. That was hardware, wasn't it? And MAC hardware to boot.
BJ

[Philip Michaels]

BJWanlund said:

Just a nitpicky thing: You didn't put the original iSight in bold. That was hardware, wasn't it? And MAC hardware to boot.

BJ

No, you're right -- I overlooked it because of the iChat tie-in. But under the rules of my little exercise, it's hardware.

I've updated the article and the count, though I stand by the original point.

[jimmylittle]

i'm keeping expectations low. every time Apple plans an event, people expect the world to change, then they ONLY come out with a 3G iPhone, or they ONLY announce a new operating system... and people complain that the phone doesn't have a 10" screen and a keyboard, or people point out that the operating system doesn't do your laundry.
Keep things in perspective, and if they come out with something useful, buy it. if not, go outside and play.

[dreyfus]

Ambrose_Chapel said:

Except that Apple just updated the white MacBook to make it faster than the low-end unibody MacBook...makes me think laptop upgrades might be on the agenda.

A simple CPU-Upgrade (e.g. base model to 2.4 and high end model to 2.66 GHz) plus a slightly bigger hard disk would be enough to re-establish the status quo, and that would not require a big announcement. Of course they might perform some more radical changes, but with new CPUs coming in 3-4 months, this would be astonishing timing.

[cv]

Apple gets a lot of bang for their buck when they throw their product launch events. Why should they try to roll up a bunch of hardware announcements into a developer event when they can get twice the coverage with two events?
Also, by not forcing hardware releases to match the WWDC schedule, Apple has more time to get things right, rather than to hurry up engineering.
This is one reason why Apple bailed on the Macworld Expo. The early January timing wasn't convenient for their product development cycle.

[Wondercow]

Macworld said:

Last year?s iPhone 3G unveiling being the exception that proves the rule.

Ugh. The exception doesn't prove the rule:

Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis: The exception confirms the rule in cases not excepted

The allowed exception proves that the rule exists in all other cases. If a sign says "parking allowed on Sundays" that is the exception that proves the existence of the rule "no parking (any other time)".

[kenaustus]

With Apple dropping MWSF it seems that WWDC is going to be the prime event for building anticipation and releasing products for a LOT of attention. I know it's mainly a developers affair, but developers are intensely focused on the iPhone fight now - some even coming from the PC world. Good place to expand interest in the Mac platform in general.
Personally I believe that the Big 3 for this event will be a new iPhone, iPhone OS 3. and Snow Leopard. I wouldn't, however, be surprised to see something else in the way of hardware. Jonathan Ive has to be working on something new all the time. That and I'm ready to replace an iMac that died last week. :)

[cypherpunks]

Oh come on... you're just inventing numbers.
Another way to look at it: Apple has made 6 new hardware announcements in the past 6 WWDC keynotes. Or 3 in the past 3 keynotes. So they didn't release hardware at WWDC from 1999-2002... who cares and why would that matter in 2009?
Also, switching to Intel doesn't count as a major hardware announcement? Seriously? That was huge!!! But of course it doesn't -- it wouldn't support your thesis.
Plus for the sake of your discussion, the iPhone launch date should also qualify as a hardware announcement as much as it would have been pointless to launch any other hardware that keynote (it would have been completely ignored).
So subtract all this faux statistical analysis and all you're saying is that we probably won't see new hardware other than an iPhone update and possibly a notebook refresh -- the same as everyone else. Move along, no news here. Just a reporter trying to invent a story to make a deadline.

[nriley]

You missed the PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard/101) introduced at WWDC 1999 - Apple even gave a bunch of them away to attendees.

[nriley]

You missed the PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard/101) introduced at WWDC 1999 - Apple even gave a bunch of them away to attendees.
(Why on earth does this system keep deleting my comment?)

[aryayush]

If they launch new LED backlit antiglare displays in varying sizes today, I?ll be a happy, happy man.

[aryayush]

If they launch new LED backlit antiglare displays in varying sizes today, I’ll be a happy, happy man.