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“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”  -  Niels Bohr

This week we returned after another enforced break, my fault again. And without the usual preamble, there was so much to get through, we launched straight into it.

Starting with….

iPad comes to the rest of us – So it’s out internationally, and proving to be a big hit everywhere. We’ll have to see if it carries on selling by the bucketload, and defines the tablet computer market like the iPhone defined it’s market. On Friday I stood outside the Birmingham Apple store, and then, stood some more. After a while I gave up queueing, and admitted defeat, no way I was getting to play with one on launch day.

The next AppleTV – Gareth being a big AppleTV fan, is stoked by the rumours surrounding the next version, which may or may not be released at WWDC. It is, apparently ‘an iPhone without the screen’. The same internals as an iPhone, A4 chip, 16GB of memory, and graphics up to pumping out 1080p video, from whatever source you want to stream it. It will, apparently, come in a tiny form factor, with an itty-bitty $99 price tag as well. If this turns out to be true Steve will have to get himself a new hobby.

Ballmer’s not going to WWDC – According to the MS twitter feed Steve Ballmer will not be attending the Mac developer conference. So if you were on the verge of cancelling your ticket, you can now go safe, from flying chairs and what not. Other rumours we touched on concerning WWDC include a revised MacBook Air and Mac Pro. As well as a probable release date for the iPhone 4G/HD, plus iPhone OS4. If you feel you’re missing out on anything, just You Tube Ballmer + developers.

OLPC confirms next version to be tablet – It wasn’t long before we were back to tablets, any excuse. And it wasn’t long before we’d covered a range of other tablet stories as well, it was that kind of show. With tablets being the current bandwagon, everybody wants to hitch up to, I suppose this announcement was obvious. How long before its called ‘One Tablet Per Child”.

Chrome browser out of beta – So its a full release for Google’s webkit based browser, for a moment I confused this news with the release of Chrome OS,  I didn’t think I’d been away for that long. Turns out I was right, I hadn’t been away for that long, but it was a surreal moment. Gareth has given it a try and was pretty positive, but it wasn’t game changing enough to get him to swap from Safari. And with Webkit 2 on the way from Cupertino, they might have to do something pretty spectacular to draw people with version 2.

There was all this in the show and more, but I don’t want to bore you with anymore stories. I couldn’t anyway, I forgot to take notes and can’t remember what else we talked about. Go on have a listen, I know you want to.