What’s a Jobs keynote without some hot bingo action to go along with it! The two Johns at Ars Technica, Siracusa and McCoy, have done it again. After having introduced the keynote bingo for WWDC 2006 and publishing another one for the Macworld Expo last year, they’re back this year with an all new bingo for the upcoming MWSF Jobsnote.
For the uninitiated, the idea behind the keynote bingo is to download the bingo card in PDF format, print it out and carry it with you to the conference. Each square on the card is filled with stuff that they think (hope? pray?) might happen during the keynote and a brief explanation of each one describes the certain conditions that are expected to be met in order for that square to be marked.
As you sit there in the conference hall, you stay on the alert and grab your pen as soon as Steve Jobs introduces the sub-notebook, mentions the iPhone SDK or just says “Boom!” You can play the game even if you’re not going to the keynote just by following the live-blogging but, of course, it wouldn’t be half as much fun. For a more thorough explanation, check out this post on Ars Technica.
Among the items that made it to the card this year, HD video, thin MacBook, “Wouldn’t it be great…?”, movie rentals, “Boom”, Blu-ray, details of the iPhone SDK, Mac market share statistics, appearance of Phil Schiller, Leopard vs. Vista, native third-party iPhone app demo and no new displays are the ones that I expect to be the marked ones a week from now. What about you? Are you going to be in on the bingo fun? Which squares are your sights set on? Sound off in the comments.
I love this tradition.
Siracusa is very cool.
And I will not register to post a freaking comment, gimme a break.
Sweet! My money is on "boom," iPhone SDK, movie rentals, Mac marketshare, and 3rd party iPhone software.
That's pretty conservative. If that's the best they can do, it's going to be a lousy keynote. :)