Speculation on 20th Anniversary Macintosh Celebration

[hm_murdock]

I've heard lots of things...

From there being a new "Macintosh"... to NeXTStep 2, to a partnership with IBM, to all of the above.

so many possibilities... what do you think? I heard someone say that these next two days could decide the future of computing. if some of the things that have been recently prognosticated come to pass... then there could be a single, unified platform ready in time to battle Longhorn.

here's the series of events as plotted...

Jan 23 04: Apple announces the "New Computer For The Rest Of Us"... it becomes another smash hit... another Macintosh, another iMac.

Jan 23 04: Apple announces NeXTStep 2... this is the culmination of the mythical Marklar project. Built on Darwin and Quartz, NeXTStep 2 utilizes YellowBox, not OS X's Cocoa API. A YellowBox update is released for OS X. You could now develop one application, and compile it for both PPC and x86, with both binaries in the package. BOOM. Your app runs ANYWHERE that the OpenStep environment runs.

Jan 26 04: Apple and IBM announce a partnership. IBM will license NeXTStep 2 and Mac OS X for a new line of open computers. x86-built commodity desktops, PPC workstations, and POWER architecture servers and mainframes. IBM is now building Power Macs essentially.

April 04: The first new YellowBox apps start to appear.

May 04: At WWDC, Mac OS XI is announced. XI will support the G5 and beyond. It will be the Mac OS X and NeXTStep 2 technologies riding atop a completely new OS, replacing Darwin... moving from a UNIX-like core to much smaller, leaner, more advanced underpinnings. XI will support high-DPI displays, as well as new, emerging technologies. The project will be ready within the mid-late 2005 timeframe. Mac OS X 10.4 is also demoed. It will be available by September of 04.

July 04: Summer Expo brings us the PPC 980... the G6. IBM shows off their new PPC workstations, and demonstrates IBM OS/3... their highly customized version of Mac OS X, built around NeXTStep 2.

August 04: Apple shows off their new OS core developed for OS XI.

September 04: Mac OS X 10.4 is released. It comes in standard and 64-bit versions.

November 04: The new Macintosh gets upgrades.

January 05: Expo San Fran brings us new announcements... HP will be licensing NeXTStep 2

Beyond this... who knows? It's all a guess, though. What do you think? :-D

[Laukev7]

If only it could be true...

[Refalm]

February 05: No one gives a fuck and after a while HP dumps Apple. Apple goes bankrupt because their large investments in High-DPI has been a failure.

EDIT: Oops    I edited instead of replied. So sorry  

[ January 23, 2004: Message edited by: psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax ]

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by Refalm:
February 05: No one gives a fuck and after a while HP dumps Apple. Apple goes bankrupt because their large investments in High-DPI has been a failure.

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Damn refelm, you sound like the same apple smear adds that have been running for the past deacde. Whats the count now? How long has apple been going out of buissness?

Hmmm... seems like at least 12 years now. HAHAHAH!

Don't make me laugh.

[Claris]

Well, it is now January 27, and it was all one huge anti-climax.

[Stilly]

I figured at most it'd be a super bowl commercial

[Pissed_Macman]

Maybe it was that new iPod commercial.