WWDC Guesses

These are collected from a Seattle-area Slack team I’m on. In no particular order, without any judgments about likelihood:

• Side-loading of iOS apps.

• Trials and upgrade pricing on the iOS and Mac App Stores.

• carOS.

• The “plus” form factor is discontinued.

• Run iOS apps on Macs.

• Use UIKit to build Mac apps.

• There is no OS X and iOS 10, only TEN.

• iTunes is broken up into pieces, including a separate Apple Music streaming service app.

• ARM-based MacBooks.

• Third-party API for Siri.

• The revival of the handwriting recognition API.

• XPC services on iOS.

• Two-up display from a single app on iOS.

• Encouragement of MVVM-like architecture in UIKit and AppKit.

• Keyboard-driven UI selection on iPad.

• UIReact. (The person who suggested this is trying to get my goat, but I’m keeping my goat.)

• 5K Cinema Display.

• NEW MAC PRO.

• Drag-and-drop on iOS.

• Lots more leather straps for the watch.

• Apple Watch straps that add more functionality (GPS, cellular, etc.)

• Apple Pay peer-to-peer payments. (SquareCash-like-thing.)

• Apple Pay rewards cards.

• Cram the whole computer in the Watch, and everything (monitor, keyboard, touchscreen) are all just wireless peripherals.

• Major upgrade for HomeKit.

• Rosetta for X86-64 on ARM (along with those ARM-based machines).

• Siri-ous work on Siri.

• FAT BINARIES.

• Support for 32-bit apps to end on OS X.

• OS X names: Barstow, Yermo, Shasta, Weed, Compton, Disney, Death Valley, La Jolla, So’side Quay, Tahoe, Truckee, Needles, Donner, La Brea, Stockton, Joshua Tree (for the U2 marketing), San Andreas.

• s/OS X/macOS/g

• FREE SONG ON YOUR MAC.

• Siri on the Mac.

• iMeeting.

• Core Data improvements. (Goes with San Andreas fault. Probably a small joke.)