Mountain Lion, iOS figure to highlight WWDC keynote

08.06.2012
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off on June 11, and as ever, expectations are running high for what the company might announce at the that starts things off at 10 a.m. PT. We’ll know precisely what big surprises Tim Cook and company have up their collective sleeve by Monday afternoon, but even now we can predict with reasonable certainty at least a few of the products that will show up. And, perhaps more importantly, those that won’t.

And if we’re way off-base with our predictions, we’ll all agree never to mention this article again. Right? Right.

: The big surprise about Mountain Lion was , which Apple announced back in February. But by now we’ve seen lists of its features, and developers have had hands-on experience with several preview releases. It’s a near certainty that Apple will recap what we already know about Mountain Lion, but it’s always possible that Cupertino held back on some features in those early releases.

What might those features be? We know that Mountain Lion borrows heavily from iOS (with features like Notes, Reminders, Notification Center, Twitter integration, Game Center, and the like), so perhaps a few other iOS niceties might debut on the Mac at WWDC as well. While we’re , the artifically intelligent voice assistant may be a long shot.

Also possible: A firmer Mountain Lion release date than simply “this summer.”