Mountain Lion, iOS figure to highlight WWDC keynote

08.06.2012

Beyond the usual processor, storage, and video card bumps, the choicest rumor of the day regarding those new Macs is that—at least on the laptop side—may get significant display upgrades, finally sharing the Retina label with their iOS brethren.

: Last year at WWDC, Apple gave iCloud equal billing alongside Lion and iOS 5. Although we’re putting our iCloud predictions here in this “moderately likely” section, we think some announcements surrounding iCloud are sure bets: , however briefly, in the wild; we suspect those will get officially unveiled at the same time as iOS 6.

Although the iWork apps for iOS all support iCloud document storage, their Mac counterparts don’t. Apple’s Mountain Lion previews include special Open and Save dialog boxes that can access files stored in iCloud, and it seems inevitable that the Mac versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote will gain access to that feature soon. And, of course, that option will be available to third-party Mac apps as well. While we hope Apple might make this process easier for developers and users alike—including the ability to share documents between apps, which is currently impossible—we don’t know that the odds are in our favor.

iCloud’s paid music-streaming feature, iTunes Match, could use an update too. While it’s pretty solid in terms of features, its reliability is extremely spotty—especially on iOS. And some (crazy) users would love the ability to . Mostly, though, we’d just like iTunes Match to work.