Daily Debrief: WWDC predictions

Monday could be the day that iPhone fans have been waiting for. According to News.com reporter Tom Krazit, who I interviewed for Thursday's Daily Debrief video, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will most likely announce big news on the second iteration of the phone at Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Updates could possibly include, but are not limited to, the inclusion of GPS, a slimmer body, and the ability to connect to the 3G network.

Traditionally, Jobs has used the WWDC to discuss changes to the Mac and OS X. This year, Krazit expects less sexy news on the Mac OS front, perhaps surrounding security and privacy issues. Another source of speculation has been what big cat the OS X 10.6 will be named after. Snow Leopard seems unlikely since Leopard was used last time, but what's left? LOLCat? The Cougar?

[timsaky]

Wow! Nice haircut, Tom!

[JamokaJoe]

How about Lion? or Garfield?

[jag0]

Don't you listen to BOL? It's gonna be called Lolcat! "I can haz update now?"

[Rick Cavaretti]

Sabertooth

[SystemsJunky]

How about Alley Cat, since OS X is a culmination of ripped off code from the "open source" community... Except Apple completely ignored the GPL..

[C433Z]

Hahaha, LOLcat. That'd be hilarious. That would be enough to make me go and actually buy a mac (not really, but close).

[tatehre]

I KNOW THE NAME FOR THE NEXT ITERATION OF MAC OS X:

MAC OS X 10.6 - THUNDERCATS

THE CD IS GOING TO HAVE THE THUNDECATS LOGO, OF COURSE!!!
HAHAHAHA!

[vodkacola]

im dumb founded by these predictions, so unprobable

[rleon]

There still lots of them to choose:

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Caracal (Caracal caracal)
Bay Cat (Catopuma badia)
Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii)
Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti)
Domestic Cat (Felis catus)
Jungle Cat (Felis chaus)
Pallas's Cat (Felis manul)
Sand Cat (Felis margarita)
Black-footed Cat (Felis nigripes)
Wildcat (Felis silvestris)
Pantanal Cat (Leopardus braccatus)
Colocolo (Leopardus colocolo)
Geoffroy's Cat (Leopardus geoffroyi)
Kodkod (Leopardus guigna)
Andean Mountain Cat (Leopardus jacobitus)
Pampas Cat (Leopardus pajeros)
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)
Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus)
Margay (Leopardus wiedii)
Serval (Leptailurus serval)
Canadian Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx)
Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus)
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
Marbled Cat (Pardofelis marmorata)
Iriomote Cat (Prionailurus iriomotensis)
Flat-headed Cat (Prionailurus planiceps)
Rusty-spotted Cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus)
Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
African Golden Cat (Profelis aurata)
Cougar (Puma concolor)
Jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi)

..and Top-Cat

[Seaspray0]

Nice list rleon. You pretty much have it covered. I won't place any bets on "Pardofelis marmorata" or "Prionailuris rubiginosus".

[sundoggy]

@rleon: I think Cheetah was the code name for OS X 10.0, but that was before they used the code names as marketing names.

[benjaminstraight]

The crystal ball.