Editing capabilities? If they were doable for Microsoft Office 2007 files/ iWork files would be great. I know of many situations still were someone hasn’t been able to access .docx files for example, and yet they can pass it to an iPhone and read from there…

Apple said copy and paste wasn’t a priority. Would be interesting to rank potential new features/adding sorely missed features.

Integration also at the Snow Leopard level. As you said – PIM – something that Palm Pre demos showed was theoretically possible
– your adresses, appointments, maps, contacts, pictures
- your addressses, appointments maps, contacts, location, pictures of/with your contacts

- Basic tasks. Notes, todos, events… GTD.

Your Omnifocus, your Things, they are good – but they could be helped.
Apple could really do good things with Grand Central, and help Education, Science etc.
Will it use that potential power from concurrency in the server field?

Look to the iPod launch, something subtle happened, recording.

The future is not consumption, we’re all on that wagon. It’s creation. Not YouTube, I’m talking… Well, actually, I have said enough…

I believe that Apple will hitch on the cloud computing buzz but on a totally different angle. Most of the time when you here that term it’s about a user connecting to somebody else’s cloud; a move that gives less power to the user. But what if you can have a piece of your very own cloud? What if you have your own server delivering your own content to your own client? In other words, what if you own a Mac and an iPhone?

The original iMac was billed as an easy way to connect to the internet. A billing that has been passed on to the iPhone. Current generation iMacs are overkill for the usual browsing, email, word processing and chat, (which were it’s old bread and butter). It could do so much more (not counting multimedia creation). So along the years, I fully expect features found in OS X Server to migrate to the iMac (so it still fully deserves it’s internet-Mac name)

But here’s my specific 2009 prediction. It came to me because I was shopping for a good router and found this: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4824323.html. Apparently, the Airport Extreme cannot enable stealth mode unlike every other router out there. The Mac appfirewall is the one that implements stealth mode. It makes the Airport Extreme discoverable as a default. With Bonjour enabled, it’s almost a lighthouse in the world wide web. But why do it that way?

A separate home server was created to solve the following problem: How do I get data I left at my home PC? The first answer is to connect your PC to the net. But your data might be on the PC that is not connected to the net or you might have accidentally deleted it. Not to mention that exposing your PC to the web is electronic suicide. So you make a home server as a centralized back-up of all your computers and you make it discoverable in the web. But configuring back-ups is a bitch and making it safely internet connectable even more so. If only there was a company specializing in seamless integration of various consumer electronic devices. Oh, wait.

Macs already have a seamless automatic back-up in Time Machine. It also has an easily internet discoverable seamless centralized storage of all your Macs in Time Capsule. All that’s left is an easy-to-use seamless interface on iPhones (and Macbooks and the Touch) to retrieve data from your Time Machine/Capsule back-ups (instead of directly from your securely firewalled, stealthed and Little Snitched Mac) over the whole wide internet. Apple could call it, Time Travel.

To sum up: iMac = server. iPhone = client. Time Travel for 2009. And you too can own a cloud.

I’d like to see Apple refocus on Mac and iPhone innovation or it’s going to be 1995 all over again…

I’d like to see Apple suing more companies for violating their “200 iPhone patents”

my baseline is Apple MUST address the primitive limitations of AppleTV and MobileMe this year or really fall far behind MS (XBox and LiveMesh) and the others who really are moving ahead. 2009 is now or never.

it is frustrating that Apple, in these and other aspects, seems unwilling to realize the full practical potential of its outstanding technology. i know Jobs loves focusing and dumbing down, but like anything else, that can be over-done.

As far as hardware, I’m horrible at prediction and don’t possess Dan’s knowledge to venture anything intelligent.

If I had a wishlist, however, it’d be that Apple lead the way with OLED display technology. And as long as we are nearing solid state, let’s also venture towards friction free as well. Would it be possible for Apple to design a connector for their iPods that is similar to the magsafe connector on their laptops? I hate the idea of smunching my iPod touch onto my Zeppelin speakers, knowing that I’ve gone through several bases for my iPod 5g due to the connector absorbing the daily abuse of alignment variances and wear from friction.

As long as I’m on a roll, perhaps a new power innovation such as a fuel cell or whatever nano-tech innovations brewing in nerd labs across this country. There has to be a better way to push electrons than our current battery technology.

The netbook explosion says that small is beautiful. But no Apple netbooks please. A larger yet pocketable iPod Touch can be the next big thing. A Mac that we keep with us anywhere, anytime. Just like a wallet.

… The front jeans pocket is the new rear jeans pocket.

The “MacTROU” (for The Rest of Us) can be untethered, like the Kindle providing anywhere, anytime web access via EVDO. But many times better than the Kindle, this Mac can connect to ALL our files online at MobileMe.

… It’s all about selling solutions, not simply gizmos.

Here’s the big Apple shift: The MacTROU can be cheap, like a razor, ‘cuz Apple can charge for all kinds of razorblades: the connectivity, the subscription to MobileMe, purchases of software and services, books, audio, video, banking, whatever, which can then reside online, always available to the MacTROU user. All of these revenues can flow directly to Apple.

… Money is the ultimate content stream.