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Here’s what I have for MWSF 2007 Keynote Bingo. This is the entire list, including old strings from the WWDC 2006 edition (except for the ones that I pruned).

If you’re still kicking around a string idea, or you think of one while flipping through this list, consider this the eleventh hour. This is the last call for new strings. ☺

These strings are from the original WWDC 2006 card by John Siracusa:

• Universal Adobe or MS Office demo
• “Boom”
• Virtualization in Leopard
• New video iPod
• New iPod Nano
• Mac Pro model <= $1,499
• “Otomatic”
• “New” Finder in Leopard
• New case for Mac Pro
• Movie rental service
• iPhone
• Mac Pro model >= $3,499
• New MacBook Pro
• “One more thing…”
• New desktop Mac (not Mac Pro)
• New kernel in Leopard
• Resolution Independent UI in Leopard
• iPods with cameras
• Quartz 2D Extreme enabled in Leopard
• New file system in Leopard

New strings for WWDC 2006!

• At least one white product
• At least one black product
• At least one brushed-metal product
• At least one product in multiple colors
• HD/HDTV mentioned (HD-DVD doesn’t count)
• Blu-Ray
• Bluetooth 2
• HD-DVD
• New displays
• New display size
• Any display size discontinued
• Mac mini accessory
• Intel Core 2 Duo
• ATI dropped
• ATI not going away
• Xserve with Intel
• 500 GB drive
• 750 GB drive
• New iPod model
• Apple Bluetooth headphones (no mic)
• Apple Bluetooth headset
• iPod with Bluetooth headphone support
• iPod flea/pico
• Touch-screen iPod
• Finger-hover- operated iPod
• Tablet iPod
• Tablet MacBook (Pro or otherwise)
• iPod accessory
• Tie-in between Quartz and any GPU maker
• Mac engraving
• New incarnation of AirPort
• Nike+iPod mentioned
• USB telepathy adapter
• FireWire dropped from all Macs
• Safari 3.0
• RSS/Atom /podcasting added to any app
• Updated iLife (not just iTunes)
• HyperCard 3.0
• Growl included in Leopard
• Growl cloned in Leopard
• Safari RSS replaced with Vienna
• Safari RSS replaced with Feed
• Safari RSS replaced with NetNewsWire
• Safari RSS replaced with NewsFire
• Safari RSS replaced with NewsMac
• BitTorrent in Leopard (in any form)
• BitTorrent in Safari
• BitTorrent in iTunes
• BitTorrent in iPhoto
• BitTorrent in Pages
• BitTorrent in Keynote
• BitTorrent in Software Update
• BitTorrent in Chess
• New Sudoku application
• New Sudoku widget
• BitTorrent tracker in OS X Server
• New Pro app
• One or more updated Pro apps
• Grapher 2.0
• Writable FTP in Leopard
• FTP client
• New iApp
• OpenOffice Document support in Pages
• OpenOffice Document support in TextEdit
• Updated iWork
• New app in iWork
• Spreadsheet
• Crash during demo
• iTunes DRM changing
• iTunes DRM going away
• iTunes Store music sales
• One or more new APIs in Leopard
• ZFS in Leopard
• ZFS in Leopard explicitly denied
• ReiserFS in Leopard
• Writable NTFS in Leopard
• Any of ext[234]fs in Leopard
• BeFS in Leopard
• New UI theme
• New QuickTime codec
• Mouse gestures
• Hand gestures (via iSight, like EyeToy)
• Focus- follows- mouse
• New API added to Quartz
• Copy of Windows to be included with every OS X disk
• Copy of Windows to be included with every Mac
• New anti-virus app introduced due to Windows
• New .Mac features
• .Mac price dropped
• .Mac price raised
• Backup 4.0 (.Mac)
• .Mac SDK 2.0 released
• Music is played during an app demo
• Musical guest
• Video conference
• Apple Store data presented
• Third party application talked about
• Phil Schiller on stage
• Roz Ho on stage
• Paul Otellini on stage
• Wil Shipley on stage
• Chris Forsythe on stage
• Apple employee number 8 (Chris Espinosa)
• Steve with beard
• Steve without beard
• Steve with no belt
• Shot of audience
• Audience member yells “BINGO!”
• Audience member whispers “BINGO!”
• Audience member ejected from auditorium
• Audience member ejected for yelling “BINGO!”
• Audience member not ejected for yelling “BINGO!” (special dispensation from Jobs)

New strings for MWSF 2007!

• Apple’s cell-phone: “iPod phone”
• Apple’s cell-phone: “iMobile” (Kevin Ballard, referencing iPhone Insider)
• Apple’s cell-phone bundled with new Macs
• Illuminous (new UI instead of Aqua)
• Keynote ends without “One more thing”
• Parallels bought by Apple, bundled with Leopard (Kevin Ballard)
• iPod phone socks (Kevin Ballard)
• Spreadsheet in iWork 2007 (Kevin Ballard)
• Spreadsheet’s name is Numbers (Kevin Ballard)
• Name of iTV announced
• Release date for iTV (Kevin Ballard)
• .Mac discontinued
• Beatles on iTunes Store
• Paul McCartney on stage
• Representative of Apple Records on stage
• Bertrand Serlet on stage
• “Top Secret” Leopard features revealed
• iTunes Store TV show sales
• iTunes Store movie sales
• iTunes 8
• GPS in the iPod (Andy Kim — he was joking, but I like the idea. Also, I will accept a GPS add-on (see the Belkin voice recorder for an example).)
• New “adult” section in iTunes Movie Store (Luc Pellissier)
• New iLife app
• One or more updated iLife apps (including iTunes)
• LED backlight on notebooks (DigiTimes.com: Apple and HP to launch LED-based notebooks)
• Bruce Chizen (Adobe CEO) on stage (Jesper)
• Steve to Bruce Chizen (Adobe CEO): “What took you so long?” (Jesper)
• Steve in Nike+ shoes (Jesper)
• Steve in New Balance shoes (Jesper)
• Steve in shiny business shirt (Jesper)
• Nike+ for more iPods (Jesper)
• Nike+ for iPod phone (Jesper)
• “The back of our computers looks better than the front of our competitors’ computers.” (Jesper and Andy Kim)
• Potshot at Vista (Jesper)
• Announcement of one or more movie studio deals for iTunes (Andy Kim)
• No announcement of movie studio deals for iTunes (Andy Kim)
• Adobe CS3 release date announced (Andy Kim)
• 802.11n compatible Airport or Macs (Andy Kim)
• New displays with built-in iSight (Andy Kim)
• iPod games mentioned
• One or more new iPod games
• HD content on iTunes (Dan Benjamin: Regarding Macworld 2007)
• New, smaller laptop (Dan Benjamin: Regarding Macworld 2007)
• Beatles special-edition iPod (Dan Benjamin: Regarding Macworld 2007)

UPDATE 2006-01-07: See also “Now, 4% more bingo!”, in which I announce version 1.0.1. Version 1.0.1 adds a net total of 8 strings.

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