Chris Seibold has published an article called "Five things that will happen with Apple in 2006 - and five others that won't" for Apple Matters. 2005 has been a very big year for Apple and the Cupertino company has generated a massive amount of buzz, news and rumors surrounding their products. After such a big year it seems unlikely that the next will be able to at least match, let alone surpass it.

"Will 2006 match up to 2005 for interest generating Mac news? The notion seems unlikely unless Apple switches to vacuum tubes instead of Intel chips and releases a $99 dollar iMac," writes Seibold.

Still with all the rumors that have now achieved truth status through the endless repetition and speculation, one has to wonder just what is and what isn't likely to happen. Each item on the list has the appropriate explanations and motivations and all in all, Seibold is playing it safe, with his educated guesses.

Seibold's Five Things That Will Happen:
1. iBooks show up sans FireWire
2. Apple Movie Store
3. Everything but Xserve powered by Intel
4. Apple Branded PVR
5. A true video iPod

Seibold's Five Things That Won't Happen:
1. The Apple phone
2. Mass pirating of Mac OS X
3. Apple getting over ten percent of the computing market
4. A trouble-free initial release of new Intel Macs
5. Much lower Mac prices