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Apple Reportedly Plans to Unveil at Least Five New Products Next Week

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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple will have a three-day stretch of product announcements from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4. In total, he expects Apple to introduce "at least five products."


A week ago, Apple invited selected journalists and content creators to an "Apple Experience" in New York, London, and Shanghai on Wednesday, March 4 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. At these in-person gatherings, the expectation is that attendees will receive hands-on time with the new products that Apple announces next week.

Given this launch is described as an "Apple Experience," it appears there will not be a traditional Apple Event live stream. Instead, the new products are expected to be unveiled in a series of press releases on the Apple Newsroom website.

A new lower-cost MacBook will "very likely" be one of the new products introduced next week, according to Gurman. Rumored features include a 12.9-inch display, a version of the iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, and a variety of fun color options.

Gurman expects the iPhone 17e to debut by the first week of March. The device is expected to have four key upgrades over the iPhone 16e, including an A19 chip, MagSafe, Apple's C1X modem for faster 5G, and Apple's N1 chip for Wi-Fi 7.

Other potential products coming next week include an iPad Air with the M4 chip, an iPad 12 with the A18 chip, a MacBook Air with the M5 chip, and MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Two new Studio Displays are reportedly in the works too, but Gurman said it might be "overkill" for those to arrive next week.

In any case, it sounds like Apple's next products are just days away. This launch comes after Apple released a second-generation AirTag last month.

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Apple has a backlog of new products coming, if you believe the rumors it's almost 20 things in the works. They are advertising this as an "experience", so it seems like introducing a couple laptops, iPhone, and iPad wouldn't really cross that threshold. To me, it sound more like they want to get people onboard with "The Apple Experience", and considering how they are planning a push into the home with some new products that should be part of any Apple experience.

So, I'm going to predict that they push a bit farther into the rumored products and show what an integrated home life with Apple would be like. Get up in the morning and the new Apple home base chats with you about your schedule, the weather, reminders, etc. Then, drive to work with CarPlay, work on your laptop and iPad, a gym visit with AirPods and Apple Watch, go home to dinner with the family and a movie with AppleTV (or the Vision if you're a wealthy loner), and off to bed with your Apple Watch monitoring your sleep. All assisted by Siri seamlessly through all your products, as an actually useful assistant.

Apple has all these pieces, but it's not clear it has the vision to put it all together as a cohesive whole, or demonstrate it so completely. A lot of us have cobbled together something akin to this, but Apple in theory has the capability to put together the whole package, and this would be a way to demonstrate that (including showing new products that are coming like the rumored doorbell). That's what "The Apple Experience" really should be...if it's just a few product announcements that they could have done with a press release and demos at the Apple Store it will be a bit disappointing.
 
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Apple has a backlog of new products coming, if you believe the rumors it's almost 20 things in the works. They are advertising this as an "experience", so it seems like introducing a couple laptops, iPhone, and iPad wouldn't really cross that threshold. To me, it sound more like they want to get people onboard with "The Apple Experience", and considering how they are planning a push into the home with some new products that should be part of any Apple experience.
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I agree that Apple has a big home automation push coming, but the hardware is being held up by the new Siri still not being ready. No way they can demo this in March 4th.

And I think you’re reading way too much into the word “experience”. That was just Apple’s way of setting expectations that these announcements don’t warrant a full Apple Event.

In fact, Apple has to get their products that are NOT defined by the new Siri out the door first. Two days of press releases next week followed by a hands-on “experience” for the press and YouTubers handles that perfectly.

Mon, March 2nd
iPhone 17e
A18 iPad
M4 iPad Air

Tue, March 3rd
A18 Pro MacBook
M5 MacBook Air
M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros
New 27” Apple Studio Display
 
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I somehow doubt Apple will release this many new products at once. Have they ever done this? We will get a couple of new introductions but I already feel five is far too many and out of the question. Three would be my educated guess. The big star is going to be the new simple MacBook, I suppose. Alongside it some minor refreshes but perhaps no M5 Pros as it will as a pro device collide with the average user 17e, the iPad Air and the new MacBook.
 
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Apple has a backlog of new products coming, if you believe the rumors it's almost 20 things in the works. They are advertising this as an "experience", so it seems like introducing a couple laptops, iPhone, and iPad wouldn't really cross that threshold. To me, it sound more like they want to get people onboard with "The Apple Experience", and considering how they are planning a push into the home with some new products that should be part of any Apple experience.

So, I'm going to predict that they push a bit farther into the rumored products and show what an integrated home life with Apple would be like. Get up in the morning and the new Apple home base chats with you about your schedule, the weather, reminders, etc. Then, drive to work with CarPlay, work on your laptop and iPad, a gym visit with AirPods and Apple Watch, go home to dinner with the family and a movie with AppleTV (or the Vision if you're a wealthy loner), and off to bed with your Apple Watch monitoring your sleep. All assisted by Siri seamlessly through all your products, as an actually useful assistant.

Apple has all these pieces, but it's not clear it has the vision to put it all together as a cohesive whole, or demonstrate it so completely. A lot of us have cobbled together something akin to this, but Apple in theory has the capability to put together the whole package, and this would be a way to demonstrate that (including showing new products that are coming like the rumored doorbell). That's what "The Apple Experience" really should be...if it's just a few product announcements that they could have done with a press release and demos at the Apple Store it will be a bit disappointing.
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Yawn. Apple has been advertising this sort of Apple lifestyle for years now. I don't care what Apple promises. So much of the actual "Apple Experience" is clunky and mediocre these days. Why on earth would anyone want a home hub to chat about schedule and reminders when you can just open your iPhone or Mac or iPad and take a look? What's the point? And Siri? It's total garbage. Without MAJOR improvements, who cares?

The reality is, Apple products and services have gotten very stale. Sure, they're still very good, but there's nothing interesting coming out of Cupertino. They're playing catch-up at best when it comes to the "smart home" and I don't expect to see anything revolutionary from them in this area, or any other area really.
 
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Which three are the right amount to bother having a simultaneous hands-on press event in NYC, London and Shanghai?

Five or more devices makes way more sense.
 
Depending on where you live, it’s the week after the next.

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The low cost Macbook is potentially a really interesting product.

I predict a bunch of reviews from PC-oriented reviewers initially poo-pooing the fact that it has a smartphone processor in it (not even the latest!) and then being surprised at how it outperforms most of the x86 chips at that price point. We *know* it kills them in single-core performance.

The price point is a big question, along with how that affects the future price of the Air. I'm looking forward to that week.
 
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Just to be clear, the "overkill" comment refers to Mac Studio and Studio Display being released both in first week of March. Here is the text: "There are two other Mac-related products expected in the first half of 2026: refreshed Mac Studio desktops and a new Apple Studio Display. The Studio Displays are already ready to ship, and the Mac Studios are not far behind. It’s also worth noting that Apple retail stores globally are facing extreme shortages of the external monitor — a sign an update is coming soon. Still, it may be overkill to unveil both these products during the early-March frenzy."

So it would appear that the monitors will be out soon, as per the revelations from the 26.3 code.
 
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I somehow doubt Apple will release this many new products at once. Have they ever done this? We will get a couple of new introductions but I already feel five is far too many and out of the question. Three would be my educated guess. The big star is going to be the new simple MacBook, I suppose. Alongside it some minor refreshes but perhaps no M5 Pros as it will as a pro device collide with the average user 17e, the iPad Air and the new MacBook.
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Yes. In September 2021, they announced a new Apple Watch, a new entry level iPad, iPad mini, iPhone 13, and iPhone 13 Pro all at once.

In fact, just this past September, they announced 7 different products at once. 3 new iPhone models, 3 new Apple Watch models, and a new generation of AirPods.
 
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Keymaster said:
Apple has a backlog of new products coming, if you believe the rumors it's almost 20 things in the works. They are advertising this as an "experience", so it seems like introducing a couple laptops, iPhone, and iPad wouldn't really cross that threshold. To me, it sound more like they want to get people onboard with "The Apple Experience", and considering how they are planning a push into the home with some new products that should be part of any Apple experience.

So, I'm going to predict that they push a bit farther into the rumored products and show what an integrated home life with Apple would be like. Get up in the morning and the new Apple home base chats with you about your schedule, the weather, reminders, etc. Then, drive to work with CarPlay, work on your laptop and iPad, a gym visit with AirPods and Apple Watch, go home to dinner with the family and a movie with AppleTV (or the Vision if you're a wealthy loner), and off to bed with your Apple Watch monitoring your sleep. All assisted by Siri seamlessly through all your products, as an actually useful assistant.

Apple has all these pieces, but it's not clear it has the vision to put it all together as a cohesive whole, or demonstrate it so completely. A lot of us have cobbled together something akin to this, but Apple in theory has the capability to put together the whole package, and this would be a way to demonstrate that (including showing new products that are coming like the rumored doorbell). That's what "The Apple Experience" really should be...if it's just a few product announcements that they could have done with a press release and demos at the Apple Store it will be a bit disappointing.
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Considering one of the events is in Shanghai, a place where (iirc) even the current version of Apple Intelligence isn’t available, and their entire smart home strategy relies on the new Apple Intelligence, this seems extremely unlikely.
 
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“Very likely”, “might”, “overkill” …
He is as vague as can be, wonder if his sources are drying out …
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Reality is he hasn’t had sources since the early 2010s. His leaker most certainly got identified & fired or retired (I’d assume an insider friend of his father’s in that scenario) or went over to Google or Meta many moons ago ago, yet now people inexplicably trust him… when he’s wrong more often than most pundits.

Gurman ain’t it. Hasn’t been for years.
 
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