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Apple Reportedly Planning No Major Updates for AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, or Apple TV in 2023

I'll wait and see what Apple comes up with during the year. They have done a pretty good job surprising us over the years and I'd bet that R&D funding has continued at the same levels as before.

Then we should be seeing the rewards of that R&D, like the 3 nm chips.
 
Jmausmuc said:
A bit disappointing how stale the Apple Watch has become. I am still wearing my series 4.

I got my GF a Series 8 for X-Mas as her Series 3 was no longer usable. We played around for maybe 30 Minutes with the new sensors and minor new watch faces and that’s it.

I literally feel the changes made between series 4 and 8 are not even worth the effort of having to setup and repair the new watch.

I also see this as a testament to how good the Watch 4 was for its time.
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my wife still rocking the series 4. she's not upgrade crazy like I am sometimes, and she does not care to upgrade. I'm on a series 5, and wonder if the Ultra is worth it.
 
dantracht said:
Sounds like I won’t be upgrading much this year.

Wallet happy.
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Upgrade Fatigue is very real.

2023 is a perfect time for Apple to skip some hardware releases, since it's gonna be a (tight economy) Recession Year anyways. I'd rather see their engineers quietly hunker down in R&D for an entire year, and then surprise us with some fantastic hardware in 2024.
 
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Good, don’t have any intentions of buying a vr set. Only like my psvr for gaming.

They should do this every 2 years: 1 year with new mobile products (phone, watch, iPad) and big software updates for them.
And a year with new Mac’s and peripherals (AirPods etc) with Big Mac OS updates.

Use the “off” year for stabilization etc.

Yearly releases turn into a mess. This year was the result of that. Phones with dynamic island and without and “normal” phones that seemed to be disappointing in almost every way.

Just chill, rethink the product lines and fine tune it. People who are with Apple will stay there anyway, speaking for myself: I am so far up the ecosystem with everything, that only thinking about changing to something else gives me the creeps
 
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A lot of these products are hitting diminishing returns anyway, I mean what more can you do to an Apple TV apart from make it cheaper?
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Put a solid GPU in it (rumoured next-gen M-series GPU) and make it capable of competing with the game consoles. Would be nice not to have to buy an Apple TV and Xbox/PlayStation.
 
All I want this year is:

1. USB-C iPhone with a reasonable price tag
2. AirPods Max 2 with USB-C

Might also consider a new MacBook Air if they come out with one, but still really happy with my M1.
 
Reason077 said:
Put a solid GPU in it (rumoured next-gen M-series GPU) and make it capable of competing with the game consoles. Would be nice not to have to buy an Apple TV and Xbox/PlayStation.
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Who's going to make games for it? You certainly won't compete with Xbox/PlayStation if all you can offer is mobile iOS games. And it's not like gaming is booming for their notebook/desktop devices either, Macs will never be great for gaming and that's not its GPU's fault.
 
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Solomani said:
Upgrade Fatigue is very real.

2023 is a perfect time for Apple to skip some hardware releases, since it's gonna be a (tight economy) Recession Year anyways. I'd rather see their engineers quietly hunker down in R&D for an entire year, and then surprise us with some fantastic hardware in 2024.
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Apple may be skipping some hardware releases, but we know they aren't skipping the iphone 15. It will be the best iphone ever™.
 
Jmausmuc said:
A bit disappointing how stale the Apple Watch has become. I am still wearing my series 4.

I got my GF a Series 8 for X-Mas as her Series 3 was no longer usable. We played around for maybe 30 Minutes with the new sensors and minor new watch faces and that’s it.

I literally feel the changes made between series 4 and 8 are not even worth the effort of having to setup and repair the new watch.

I also see this as a testament to how good the Watch 4 was for its time.
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Yup. The updates are definitely as boring as it comes.
 
Kylo83 said:
Apple Watch series 8 was a terrible update and now another year the Same thing, apple has become boring
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The comment Apple has become boring is getting boring as people say this every year. Just because you thing something is boring does not make it so. For those that do not upgrade every year Apple’s offerings are exciting.
 
Jmausmuc said:
A bit disappointing how stale the Apple Watch has become. I am still wearing my series 4.

I got my GF a Series 8 for X-Mas as her Series 3 was no longer usable. We played around for maybe 30 Minutes with the new sensors and minor new watch faces and that’s it.

I literally feel the changes made between series 4 and 8 are not even worth the effort of having to setup and repair the new watch.

I also see this as a testament to how good the Watch 4 was for its time.
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They've gone the same route as they did with the iPhone. Introduce a newer more expensive model, that model gets all of the interesting updates while the standard model gets minor spec bumps.
 
I'm smelling a layoff happening at Apple around March / April. Sounds like they're "battening the hatches" for a recession that's coming.

(Just like the Amazon "white collar" layoff that was originally supposed to be 10,000 workers has now jumped to 18,000)
 
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efktd said:
my wife still rocking the series 4. she's not upgrade crazy like I am sometimes, and she does not care to upgrade. I'm on a series 5, and wonder if the Ultra is worth it.
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Same here. I have the Series 5 with money set aside to get the Series 8. But after seeing the release of the Series 8 last year, I didn't see a compelling reason to upgrade, combined with the fact that my Series 5 still performs very well for what I use it for. Now, it was a night-and-day improvement from my Series 2-to-5, but I don't see a reason to upgrade to the 8. Now, sounds like I'll have the same dilemma with the Series 9.
 
dampfnudel said:
In addition to the new features from the second generation AirPods Pro, make it lighter, add USB-C and please Apple give it a real case so a third-party case won’t be a necessity.
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I personally couldn't care less about USB-C. My phone and a ton of other peripherals still charge over Lightning so it's a big "whatever" from me for quite a while to come.

The weight was quite a turnoff to me when I first got them. I've gotten used to it? But at the same time if they suddenly shed 5 ounces I bet I'd be happy about it if it didn't compromise sound or anything.

I have oddly grown to appreciate the case. It protects them enough from the normal things in my bag (books, an extra sweater, maybe a snack bar) -- while also not taking up half my bag the way an enclosed case absolutely would. My only beef with the case is how rough and unfinished it looks. Those exposed seams and things all look like it's some origami concept that never quite came together.
 
JamesHolden said:
Who is the innovator then? What company is blowing your mind with all their innovative tech these days? Tech is boring across the board now. It's not just Apple. The whole tech world is one big fat YAWN.
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Meanwhile, someone just set up their first Apple TV yesterday, started playing music from their Apple library and don’t find it boring at all.
 
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SW3029 said:
Besides the Ultra, the Apple Watch Series basically hasn't received a major update since Series 5. It's crazy if the Series 9 will be little different than the recent generations.

Maybe they are waiting for Apple Watch Series X to roll out the next big product features.
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Maybe there will actually be a new S series chip this year (i.e. not just a rebranded one like the S7 and S8 have been), but it's sounding like even that is asking for a lot from Apple these days. I'm holding out on my Series 5 until there is an actual new chip!
 
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sandman404 said:
While I appreciate the cadence Apple has had, releasing a new minor version every year seems like a waste. We don’t need new phones with the same hardware (which gets a new generation and power saving).
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Maybe folks WITH phones don’t? But, for folks that don’t own an iPhone and want to buy a new one, they’re probably much more content buying a device that’s not 2-4 years old (again, if “new” is what they’re looking for).
 
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