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Appleinsider says Apple will start shipping products with Blu-Ray:

In a report issued to clients early Thursday morning, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu cited sources who say the Cupertino-based Mac maker, which already occupies a seat on the Blu-ray consortium, is set to begin shipping some of its computers with support for the next-generation DVD format.

Maybe they made a deal? Sony is said to join in on Apple’s movie rental scheme, and in return Apple backs Sony’s Blu-Ray format?

Maybe the whining is a good sign?

PCmag isn’t so happy about Leopard. ZDnet comments.

Maybe it’s true then that Apple is gaining marketshare, and now they just need to work harder. Let’s see if that happens. Apple for sure knew about at least some of the bugs in advance and still went ahead and released Leopard. They must have calculated that it would cost more to delay the release than to fix it later. Put another way, they must have calculated that loss of shine on their fine brand would suffer more if Leopard was delayed than if it contained annoying bugs. Either way, they just didn’t have the time or the resources to get it right with version x.0.

Obviously that sucks. No one likes a system that doesn’t work. And we are all counting on Apple to not just have the good guy image, but to be the good guy. Is that unrealistic?

Still, I find that most of PCMags ranting is just a matter of taste. So who cares that the guy is annoyed with rounded menubar corners. He’s just piling personal taste on top of a bug report there, as far as I’m concerned. He is entitled to his opininon, but it’s hardly a flaw in Leopard. Apple is all about the details, and I personally happen to like the rounded corners. It’s a fun change, that’s all, and in Lion or whatever the next OS X 10.6 is called, they are going to change again. I just don’t see the point in whining about little details like that, just give the guys at Apple some creative freedom. Besides, these are things that keep developing with time. You just can’t invent too much of the future today. Apple makes it as nice as they can, and next year they can do it even better. Or go back to a previous version, only a bit different. It’s an iteration process, no doubt.

Take a look at Windows 95 or Mac OS 9, and you’ll be only glad they both kept developing.

But if you want to make a big fuss about such things, go ahead. The bugs though, they should be crushed ASAP. So keep blogging about that. And one more thing, let users comment on your writing, makes your more believable!

I’m of course referring to Macworld and El Jobso’s keynote on the 15th of January. It’s unusually late in the month, but that just gives us some more time to salivate and throw out some ideas about what they might be launching.

I’ll be back soon with the definitive future list for Apple. (Hey, you have to believe in what you do, right?)

This is a riot. How do you protect your iPod from being stolen?

The geek world holds it’s breath everytime Apple is about to release new goodies unto the world. And then waits impatiently until the next leaks and blurbs appear. That’s what we love about Apple: they are worth waiting for.

But in the meantime we can dream, scheme and try to see where they are heading next. While there are plenty of rumor sites out there, they are all based on intentional (or nefarious) leaks from inside Apple and it’s partners. As I’ve said before, not this site.

We suggest that you can see plenty from what Apple has already shown us. They are a clever bunch, but they test a lot. Every new product you see from them is tested in one way or another on existing products.

Add a few educated guesses derived from where the tech world is going in general and mix in what you think today’s products are missing, and you have a roadmap.

Chime in with stuff you can see!

This is not going to be a regular apple rumor site, there are plenty of those out there. No, this is going to be just me, with no secret leaking source/clever marketing person in Cupertino to help me out.

I’ve been following Apple’s doings for many years now, since maybe 1994, and on several occasions I’ve a pretty good (and later correct) idea on what they will be doing soon. So I thought why not just write the ideas down, just for fun. I’m going to include links to other good premonitions as well, and maybe put in a few suggestions that I feel would be great for Apple to implement.

I’m also looking for one or several co-editors for this blog, so let me know if you are interested, and why it should be you!

Cheers!