- Steve Jobs will be wearing a beard and a black turtleneck. He will sing, shout, and dance his way onto the stage in a display to assure those stock analysts still worried for his health that he is a-okay.
- First up will be some talk about business. iTMS and iPod market share and songs owned. Apple Retail stores ... a bit of chatter about the Apple store experience and the Genius Bar. Its all good. A bit of a mention of sales figures for the iMac G5.
- Then, we'll see the xServe updates. The xServes are likely to get some hardware boosts and new configuration options. There'll be a lot of talk about raw processing power, and total cost of ownership.
- The Apple/Motorola effort to bring iTMS to the mobile phone space will be revealed by reps from Motorola ... for those of you who are hoping for an Apple branded mobile it will NOT happen. The phone is a stylish new Motorola which includes a mobile edition of the iTunes Music Store, and a remote on the headphone cable that is not at all dis-similar to the iPod remote.
- The iPod mini will see a slight price drop and possibly one new size (8GB). iPod photo will go up as high as 80gb (provided the Toshiba drives are ready). People will whinge on the forums that they didn't get a flash-iPod or a video-iPod. Other people will point out to them that the flash iPod would defeat the purpose of what an iPod is about, and watching video on a sub 2-inch screen is as much fun as hitting yourself with a hammer.
- The next Pixar movie "Cars" will get a sneak preview in rendering benchmarks and software demonstrations. I doubt we'll see any software updates for the Pro-video apps so soon after the last round of updates, but there will be plenty of software to show off ...
- Tiger demo begins. Dashboard, spotlight, Safari-RSS, new Mail client, and so on. A lot of us have seen bits of this in the ADC builds and the WWDC demos, but this is still very impressive. Steve gives a vague-ish release date.
- Keynote gets an update. Keynote 2.0 is bigger, easier, with more ways to animate more things. Every Keynote user in the audience is weeping in joy and worshipping Steve.
- Then there'll be "one more thing..." and everyone will hold their breath. A glance at the watch reveals there is still 30 mins to go, so it must be a biggie. The elevator comes up onto the stage, with something under a white sheet. The crowds hold their breath, and ...
Nah, but I've said too much already.