I figured I'd put my hat in the ring here.
#Predictions
- iOS 8
- Lots of performance polish, a la Snow Leopard
- UIMotionEffect improvements (full under-the-hood rewrite?)
- Touch ID APIs
- Some unifying API to talk with BLE-, WiFi-, etc based devices
- Tint color becomes über important and defining, even more so than iOS 7
- Fast, fast, fast and fast
- OS X.10 aka Huntington (shot in the dark here)
- New UI similar to this
- UIKit for OS X
- Siri integration
- iOS ↔ OS X AirDrop
- Xcode 6
- Overhaul of Instruments
- Some sort of new platform for iOS and OS X development with JavaScript roots
- Apple Beta Program
- Beta testing of iOS and OS X apps a la Testflight
- No limit to beta testers (won't count against developer's 100 devices)
- Better crash reporting
- App Store app and music gifiting
- MacBook spec bumps across the line, end-of-line for non-Retina MacBooks
- A very average game demo from some company who has been trying iOS 8
- Craig Federighi stealing the show as per usual
#Wants
- Objective-C 3.0 ^^^Just ^^^to ^^^make ^^^all ^^^the ^^^haters ^^^stop ^^^their ^^^bitching.
- XPC on iOS (what I really just want is Android-like intents...)
- Better permissions on iOS
- Siri API of some sort
- OS X does away with sandboxing
- OS X Safari notifications to become just OS X notifications