WWDC 2010 rumors revised after new iPhone 4 fanboi-fest

By Richi Jennings. June 8, 2010.

So how did those WWDC 2010 rumors work out? Did Steve Jobs announce everything expected of him? iPhone 4 got all the headlines, but what about the other expectations? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder what might have been.

Your humble blogwatcher selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention the Secret's "ouch"...
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Ben Patterson lists unfulfilled rumors:

$99 Apple TV ... Pretty cool — heck, I'd buy one. ... iTunes in the cloud ... hey, you never know; Apple typically unveils its music-focused announcements in September, so stay tuned. ... The Magic Trackpad ... Could it be this year's "One more thing"? Sorry, but no. ... Free MobileMe ... apparently Jobs wasn't feeling that magnanimous (or at least, he isn't yet).
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64GB iPhone ... The biggest iPhone 4 still tops out at 32GB ... A final 'Get a Mac' ad ... even if the TV ad actually was shot, we didn't see it Monday. ... An iPhone for Verizon, or any other carrier besides AT&T. ... Maybe next year, folks, but not today.

Preston Gralla has more questions than answers:

There were plenty of important things missing from Jobs' keynote.
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When will the iPhone come to other carriers? ... Why can't an iPhone tether to an iPad? ... When's the next rev of Mac OS X due? ... What model truck will Steve Ballmer drive?

But Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is well-connected:

What's going on when two of the biggest and brightest technology companies on the planet can't get a demo to work because of lack of bandwidth? ... We don't have enough Wi-Fi/3G/4G bandwidth. ... You don't have to be a network engineer at a major trade show to figure this out. If you live in an urban area ... [you see] the same problem: too many people trying to share the same resource, wireless space, at the same time.
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It's only going to get worse ... HD Internet video is going to demand far more bandwidth. ... You can expect to see a lot more demos going wrong, and a lot more trouble with your new iPhone 4 video-conferencing and the like. The days of the great bandwidth shortage are quickly moving in on us.

AppleInsider notes a rumor-come-true that wasn't announced by Jobs:

Available for both Mac and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports a number of new HTML5 technologies. ... Also includes Safari Reader, which makes it easy to read single and multi-page articles. ... Apple said Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4 ... [and] loads new pages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages.
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Full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video. ... HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket.

And Andrew Nusca doesn't see a Flip-killer:

Flip will be just fine for the next few years. ... At $149, it’s $50 cheaper than the new iPhone — no contract necessary.
... Ask yourself which you’re more likely to give to your five-year-old: a Flip, or the iPhone with all your data on it?
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When Apple introduced the ... iPod Touch ... pundits were swift to claim the impending death of the mini pocket camcorder. But even without a service contract, those devices ... haven’t yet overwhelmed the segment.

Meanwhile, Brad Stone complains about "meaningless" statistics:

Jobs ... said that big publishers had told him that sales of e-books for the iPad now accounted for 22 percent of all e-books. ... Means little because it does not reflect the entire publishing industry. Most small publishers, along with one of the largest in the world, Random House, do not sell books through Apple.

And Finally...
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