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wizard69 said:

That apparent air conditioning unit is something else.  Hard to believe the air conditioning system is that undersized at this venue.


In any event I'm actually expecting a lot of new stuff, both hardware and software.  Some of it will be pretty obvious some are just guesses.   Here are a few that come to mind:

1. New operating systems - an easy one.
2. Siri.   Also on the Mac with hopefully a good amount of AI done locally.  
3. New XCode and Swift, this is all public knowledge but I'm thinking Swift 3 will come at the same time as the new OS releases.  
4. New networking hardware.  
5. New laptops.
6. New iMacs
7. A replacement for the Mac Mini that better meets the needs of users that want a monitor free desktop solution that isn't an expensive Mac Pro
8. New Mac Pro, announced but maybe not shipping.   The problem here is GPU cards, they really need 14 nm pro cards.  Unless AMD and Apple have a project here to deliver suitable cards early I don't see an updated Mac Pro shipping until late this year. 
9. New iOS devices.  
10. Mac Book Air by the way will be completely refactored to lower price well below $1000, possibly aiming for $750 or less.   The goal is to win back much of the eduction market they have lost due to not having a suitable laptop.  This could very well be an ARM based laptop.  
11. Apple will start to take AI seriously on the Mac.   This will be partly demonstrated by Siri for the Mac.   SDK's will be coming.   
12. Apple transitions to Python 3 as the default Python install.   {Well we can hope}
13. Instead of #12 above Apple pushes scripting with Swift.   
14. Scripting comes to all platforms with Swift scripting support to be built into Apple apps with OS support for third party apps.  Yes scriptable iOS apps!  
15. Latest OpenCL adoption.    Apple really needs to stand behind OpenCL for those professionals using GPU compute.  
16. Significantly enhanced graphics drivers.  It is embarrassing to realize that open source Linux GPU drivers perform better.   Apple might finally address this.  
17. Mac OS is enhanced for performance finally killing the unexplained beach balls.  
18. Apple officially supports external GPUs.  The market dies though because of outlandish pricing. 
19. All of the new Macs will contain an ARM coprocessor.   This to enable always on SIRI and to prep for an ARM transition. The ARM processor will be capable of running apps but Apple will highlight it as an enabler for SIRI on the Mac.  All voice commands and Siri interaction will be handled by the ARM chip thus affording the Mac a very low power always aware Siri - Hey Siri.  
20. New Apple Swag.    Including Apple flip flops for the Southern California NUDIST.  

There you go an easy 20.  A little over two days to go now, we will soon know how foolish these 20 are.  

Re: #8
I was disappointed when Apple axed the Xserve and Xserve RAID. I think they both had a lot of potential for office environments and design studios, and they were scalable as a business grew. The Mac Pro looks "cool", but it's overly priced and is not scalable. $3000 for the base model, and up to $10,000 for the maxed out version, plus extra for displays and storage makes it incapable of competing with Linux and Windows machines. I predict that the Mac Pro will go the way of the Cube after not too long; cool looking, but ultimately not worth the price, or the cost of Apple's investment.
Apple should bring back the Xserve and RAID, price them competitively, and they'll get a lot of support from the business and pro markets. Imagine a base Xserve for, say, $1500, and a maxed out model for around $4,000, and a RAID starting out at $1,000 (6 TB) and maxed out at $5,000 (36 or 48 TB). A company could then build its own cloud for all its employees' iPhones, iPads, iMacs, MacBooks, etc., that could then be further backed up by a secure, encrypted corporate iCloud account.
It's great that the iPhone has become the huge success that it has; its put Apple at the top of the tech industry. But it's disappointing that Apple as all but abandoned the pro market in the process—e.g. killing Aperture, "simplifying" Final Cut Pro X, etc. Apple is a big enough company that they can invest the R & D necessary to satisfy consumers and professionals.

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We can come up with our own percentages, limiting certain things that are Indian, and see how the finance minister of India likes that. And we will make no exceptions of course, just like he said of Apple.

India has a lot to gain by Apple's expansion, as does Apple. I don't think Apple has enough pull in the US government to make them impose trade tariffs on Indian imports just so that Apple could expand into the Indian market and bypass the 30% restriction. The US government has no incentive to play the tit-for-tat game on Apple's behalf. To even try would offend the sensibilities of the finance minister, and he would only dig his heels in further.
India can be incentivized, but it can't be bullied. If Apple can come up with some strategies that the Indian government would see as benefits for India, then they might consider loosening some restrictions. Bringing the US government into it to try and bully/cajole/manipulate would be a terrible idea.

India has a huge (in pure numbers, not percentage) middle class compared to most other countries in the world [citation needed!], also, you can't swing a dead cat around in India without hitting an Audi, a Porsche, a BMW, or a Mercedes. Apple should have no problem selling their top-tier iPhones and Macs here. Indians love brands and the status that those brands imply.
With Apple opening iOS development centers in India, their image and profile will be even greater. And once Apple Pay and other services are brought here, Apple will be a hugely sought after brand. Apple will never win the market share game, but that's because they're not playing. They're interested in building products that they are proud of, not cheap crap just to boost sales numbers or gain market share.
If Apple sells only 5 million iPhones a year in India, that's still worth the effort, I think. It would get even better if Apple would release products in India at the same time they released them in the US.

I'm very excited that Apple is finally expanding into India. I've been waiting for this for years.

The government has proved that they can't be trusted not to abuse their access or power. Apple is "absolutely" right to fight the government's order to create a backdoor—and that's exactly what they're asking for, despite their claim to the contrary.

Normally I agree with Obama on most things, but this is one issue on which he is absolutely wrong. There is no "middle ground" in this fight. Either phones are encrypted, and customers are secure, or phones are "backdoored", and customers are not secure.

The post-9/11 government has overreached and violated people's personal freedoms too many times to be trusted to access "just this phone, just this one time. And in an age where more of our personal lives exist in digital form, encryption is all that much more important.