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2024 Annual Pickies

jbiatek 10th January 2024 at 10:24am
Winner: TBD

🥇 Round 1 (3 points)

HostPickScore
James "Apple allows a third party app store on the phone somewhere in the world"
John "Vision Pro will be released in the first calendar quarter of 2024"
Jason "Apple Watch Ultra 2 is on sale in the US on March 1st"
  • Was originally just "Apple Watch Ultra 2 will go back on sale", but during recording, news broke that the ruling had been stayed and sales would be resuming. Jason pushed the prediction out a bit to a point where it was still a competitive question whether it would remain on sale.

🥈 Round 2 (2 points)

HostPickScore
James "Vision Pro finally goes on sale in Scotland"
John "2024 will see the return of a March Apple event"
Jason "The new Apple Pencil Pro is introduced"

⚡️ Lightning Round (1 point)

HostPickScore
James "A Mac is introduced with a brand new form factor"
  • This is a bit "wooly", but for example, the M2 MacBook Air was a new form factor, but the 15" MacBook Air was not. Size changes and port changes aren't enough. James admits that this may be wishcasting.
John "Personal automations are going to come to macOS, finally"
Jason "M3 MacBook Air introduced, M2 MacBook Air discontinued, M1 MacBook Air remains"
James "An original Apple TV+ show or movie is released in 3D"
John "The "quadbox" is going to expand in 2024 to include other kinds of content"
  • Referring to the picture-in-picture features of tvOS.
Jason "A live sporting event is transmitted immersively to Vision Pro users"
James "An iPad will be introduced with a bigger screen than we have seen before"
  • A 13" iPad would count!
John "Vision Pro is going to be reintroduced at an event this year that includes an appearance by Eddie Cue, but he's not going to dance"
  • Ungraded: He'll be there to talk about entertainment, but he has learned his lesson about dancing.
Jason "A new iPad Magic Keyboard that has a function row"
James "Apple ships some form of generative AI"
  • For example, text or image generation.
John "The iPad Pro is going to get a second USB-C compatible port"
Jason "A new Apple AI assistant is unveiled, but it's still called Siri"
James "Apple introduces some form of new display technology"
  • For example, folding screens, mini LED, holographic, or beaming directly into your brain.
John "Death Stranding and/or Hideo Kojima will appear in more than one Apple event"
Jason "Apple makes another sports rights related deal"