The Great April 1st Apple Prediction

...was recorded for posterity by my pal Mike Curtis yesterday over at his excellent HD For Indies (where he published lots of great MWSF coverage, btw).

Basically, I'm going out on a limb and predicting that Apple will unveil its "holy grail" media center / convergence device (based on Intel's Viiv platform) on its 30th birthday, making a bold play for the living room (and continuing the company's expansion into consumer electronics). As hypothesized by myself, Mike and many others, it will be an evolved Mac mini (with an iPod dock) that will incorporate next generation versions of Apple's Front Row (with DVR capabilities added) and the iTunes Video Store (which will do for movies what they've done for music, and already started to do for TV).

P.S.: Ars Technica and the Chicago Tribune report that Apple may be preparing to launch its own "Mobile Me" Apple-branded MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) cel phone service, possibly with an iPhone that could purchase and download songs wirelessly - which I also think could be announced April 1.