Kevin Fox expects Apple to unveil huge changes at WWDC

“I don't have any inside info, and I make a point of not trying to pry secrets from my friends who work at Apple, nevertheless the rumblings are huge,” Fox writes. “In no particular order, here are some thoughts about where Apple may be going. These are not based on any inside info, and they undoubtedly won't all be right:”

? Seamless remote access to any data kept in your Documents folder, and synchronization across machines.? Universal login using your Apple account: Walk up to any Mac, sign in as a guest using your Apple account credentials and you'll be brought to the same desktop you get on your personal machine.? Realtime, continuous syncing of iOS devices will mean never having to plug your iPhone or iPad in to your computer again, or even the need for a computer for syncing at all.? iOS runtime within Mac OS to allow iPhone apps to run as Dashboard widgets and iPad apps as first-class desktop apps.? Your canonical music library exists in the cloud. Your Mac, Windows, or iOS device can sync with all or part of it in the same way that your iOS devices sync with your computer's iTunes library today.? Unification of the App Store to encompass Mac, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV and iPad apps.? Stripping out the App Store from iTunes. iTunes will be the media storefront and the App Store will be the resource storefront.? Apple TV + App Store updates probably aren't there but, however I wouldn't be surprised to hear announcements in order to get developers building apps.

The family plan will have to be greatly enhanced

The family plan will have to be greatly enhanced, if we all have to have a personal Apple account. Currently we all have a personal account on the Mac, nevertheless we share the iTunes and Apps using my main account. My kids will not be using my account to get onto computers or syncing there iPads.

be careful here MDN. Having been assimilated by google and shmidts philosophy, this could be another scripted bashing of apple. Watch what happens the day afterwards the wwdc. I see a scripted response of “expected more” fromnthese same folks.

Similar to “40/45 million iPads this year” “goal”, which was never mentioned by Apple, nor any of Taiwanese source could be as a matter of fact aware of.

Fundamental shift??? Meh… In other words fancy words for an overpriced cloud service. Why pay $25 a year when Amazon offers it for free? If even one of those rumored features is left out of iCloud, the disappointment will be immense. The entire computer industry has already decided that Apple, the toy company, doesn’t know a damn thing about cloud services. All the press will be focused on is how ghastly Steve Jobs looks. That’s the only thing Wall Street is concerned about with Apple.

Excellent possibility to short Apple

Now will be an excellent possibility to short Apple. This whole iCloud nonsense has been building up for months and anything Apple delivers can only be a letdown to the tech press and Wall Street. Apple’s share price will resemble a deflated balloon. iCloud will be as long-lived as a puff of cigarette smoke.

Oh for pete’s sake. I left Google three years ago, have been an Apple fanboy since my Mac 128K in 1984, and have been writing speculative Apple articles for years earlier I started at Google.

The real Kevin Fox…

If you are the real Kevin Fox….I’m not siding with Frederico here, however one does have to take a little precaution anymore when the media praise’s Apple with predictions.

Maybe the TimeMachine backup on your TimeCapsule can As well sync to the iCloud giving you: an offsite backup, a sync server to multiple TCs and very fast access.

My god most of these ideas sound terrible and entirely pointless for consumers.Good that Apple isn’t run by the guys at Mozilla.

AAPL is affected by a lot more than what Apple announces. I might advise you to go over to seekingalpha.com and read any number of stories about AAPL if you want to learn more.

It would be great if it provides real time syncing of whatever is on your devices.I would alsonlike to iCloud facilitate Face Time calls between any device connected to a free iCloud connection and as well facilitate voice only calls- new international communication network.