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Apple's 2013 Product Roadmap Predictions: Multiple iPhones, Retina iPad Mini, All-Retina MacBook Pros

turtlez said:
If they are gonna put out a new Mac Pro they will do it very soon, wait another 2 months tops if not jump to a build your own.
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If you can exist on a PC platform, why wait for the Mac Pro? Apple's Mac Pro sucks. Yes, it can run OS X officially, but hardware wise it is always terrible. I can build a much better machine at half the cost.

I would never buy a Apple desktop anything...over priced and under powered.

-P
 
InuNacho said:
Just plaster blue dots all over that timeline for the Pro.
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Why do you say that, Finder has been a part of their heart and soul since the Mac's inception?

I see them merging iOS and Mac OS in the near future, but still having a more powerful version of OSX for high end machines.
 
I've got a full sized third gen iPad, but I'd be tempted to buy a retina iPad mini with high end specs if one ever surfaced.
 
pertusis1 said:
O.K., so I'll admit that I glanced at the roadmap, feverishly looking for any news on the MacPro, so badly in need of up update. Like many of you, my heart sank. I have been waiting to get a Mac Pro since late 2010, when I thought I'd just wait until the next upgrade.

Then I remembered that there is basically one Apple product that the CEO of Apple has announced an upgrade for this year... the Mac Pro. Even if they decided the economics of updating the Pro didn't make sense, just for the sake of saving face, there's no way Apple is not going to come in with an update for the pro market this year. Ignore this guy's timeline post. It's all guesses, and ignores the one product for which Apple HAS announced an update.
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I wish people would get there facts right. Tim Cook did not specify a new Mac Pro. He said something Pro's would really like. He also said later in 2013.

It doesn't help when the web site itself spreads mis-truths.
 
Wicked1 said:
Why do you say that, Finder has been a part of their heart and soul since the Mac's inception?

I see them merging iOS and Mac OS in the near future, but still having a more powerful version of OSX for high end machines.
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I can't begin to imagine what a merged operating system would look like. Could you shed some light on what you might think it could entail if they go in that direction and why it would be of benefit? The way I see it is that OSX is as wonderfully optimised for a desktop experience as iOS for mobile, yet both share many features of each other. A true 'merger' might just have each lose a little of its own unique functionality?

Anyway, what I'd like to see a few years down the track (OS11) is a super powerful iPad that you could dock with a big display. When portable, it would be similar to the way it works now, but when docked, you could interact with the OS in a different way on a larger display, with a windowed interface and so forth. I'd like it if the iPad could run an OS that had the functionality of OSX AND iOS but only capable of true multi window interaction and more professional functionality when plugged into and driving an external display with keyboard and mouse (possibly touch?). P.s. I understand that the current iPad would be incapable of doing such a thing to a satisfactory standard. But who knows where ARM will take us?
 
An 8gig iPod Touch is as worthless of a product as it gets. You can't do anything with it. It's not close to being big enough to hold any substantial music and apps.
 
OMG they're going to replace the Mini in the 4th quarter :eek:

Got to hurry up to buy this one before they remove all the ports and raise the price on the next one.
 
Apple's Predictions?

You need to change the headline syntax. These aren't Apple's predictions but an analyst's predictions. As we all know Apple doesn't predict much of anything.
 
unagimiyagi said:
Kuo is ALWAYS right. This is the only dude in the entire world, no exaggeration, who gets all the predictions right. it's so uncanny that either he works right next to Tim Cook, or is the secret president of Foxconn, or he's a genius. If I could reach him, I'd let him pick all of my stocks. What he has said, will in fact be the Apple roadmap for 2013.
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He's not always correct, he did predict last year that all MacBook ranges would be converted into one simply called 'MacBook'.

He also had some of his release timings wrong (at different times in the quarter where they were actually combined in 1 event). Even in this prediction he has the iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 separate, while Apple would probably hold another event to announce them together.

But I do agree he is the most accurate source around right now. Too bad, I was really hoping for a redesigned (lighter) full size iPad soon, as some other rumours have suggested.
 
How do you keep a fanboy in suspense?
Tell them a new mac pro comes out in 2013, then tell them they don't need one but to buy a iMac or mini. Apple then kills off the mac pro.
Seriously, time to find another platform folks if a mac pro is the only apple product keeping you on the apple band wagon. Most have moved on but the few that dream it will happen will have your heart ripped out. Time to face reality.
 
Intarweb said:
An 8gig iPod Touch is as worthless of a product as it gets. You can't do anything with it. It's not close to being big enough to hold any substantial music and apps.
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I also think what they are giving away free now which is the iPhone 4 at 8GB is useless after the iOS is loaded.

A friend of mine got one, and she thought it would be a good idea last year when they were $100.00 but now is having a lot of pain with fact she runs out of space taking photos of her two small kids.

They need to make the 4S the free one at 16GB, stop going back to 8GB Apple, you make a ton of $ on every phone anyway.

Personally I am hoping the new base iPhone will go to 32GB, then 64GB, then 128GB, I bought a 16GB and it is really not enough for me though, I always bought the 32GB, but I was only able to get a 16 on release day :(
 
arn said:
And you are wrong.

We aren't discussing whether or not you personally thought it made sense or not. We are arguing whether or not it was an obvious prediction at the time. Read the thread, and we have the answer: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1381818/. The answer is that a lot of people thought it was not the way apple would go.

arn
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Sorry for contradicting you, Your Highness!

My point is that it didn't seem like a stretch to predict that Apple would keep the cMBP after releasing the rMBP when factoring in the added expense of the Retina Display and Apple's history of keeping cheaper older models around for a period of time when releasing more expensive newer ones.
 
This schedule makes [more] sense to me.

We just had a form factor change on the iPhone, iPod Touch, the introduction of a new iPad design (Mini), and a "connector sync", with with revision to the 3rd Gen iPad, and the introduction of a new SOC (for high[er] end products).

I think people are rushing Apple's schedule, mostly because of the slightly early revision to the full sized iPad. I think that was a "one off" schedule change to coordinate iPad updates on the same date, introduce the A6 (several logical reasons to do this including cost), and get all iOS devices on Lightening.
 
sseaton1971 said:
Sorry for contradicting you, Your Highness!

My point is that it didn't seem like a stretch to predict that Apple would keep the cMBP after releasing the rMBP when factoring in the added expense of the Retina Display and Apple's history of keeping cheaper older models around for a period of time when releasing more expensive newer ones.
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I was very surprised they kept them at the time. Just prior to their release I thought the cMBP's would be cancelled for sure in order to spotlight the retina models further. Arn's right, lots of people though that the rMBP refresh would also signal the end for the fat MacBook Pro's, just like the new iMac's have ousted their thicker predecessors.

D.T. said:
This schedule makes [more] sense to me.

We just had a form factor change on the iPhone, iPod Touch, the introduction of a new iPad design (Mini), and a "connector sync", with with revision to the 3rd Gen iPad, and the introduction of a new SOC (for high[er] end products).

I think people are rushing Apple's schedule, mostly because of the slightly early revision to the full sized iPad. I think that was a "one off" schedule change to coordinate iPad updates on the same date, introduce the A6 (several logical reasons to do this including cost), and get all iOS devices on Lightening.
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Agreed with everything said here, though I also think Apple may have pushed lots of their new products out late last year to purposefully free up Q1 this year for a new product introduction. That's something this analyst couldn't predict for obvious reasons.
 
PlayRadioPlay said:
If they don't upgrade the Mac Pro in 2013, I will be buying a desktop PC.

I love Apple, but this is really getting insane.

I have work to do, Apple, and I'm not upgrading to the current Mac Pro.
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Agreed. Apple is dancing a thin line with the Mac Pro. If it conforms to the non existent innovation that has plagued Apple by making things thinner and lighter as opposed to innovative, then I will also make the jump. I will not buy a new iMac because I need to be able to upgrade and configure to my needs. And I will not buy a "lock box" Mac Pro for the same reason. I am hoping for a March launch. For no other reason than a feeling/desperate hope. It doesn't make sense for them not to launch anything in March. It's the time of the year where people get tax returns and if they are lucky bonuses and raises.
 
I really hate this whole "cheaper iPhone" theory/idea/project/whatever. I think it's fine the way it is. Besides, there are plans that are more reasonable nowadays and also people are going to slap a case on their phone to change the color of it to what they want. I don't get the idea of making a cheaper more colorful version of the iPhone 5 (other than trying to saturate an already saturated mobile market with the Apple brand).
 
StoneJack said:
If Apple was to release new iPads in March, because of logistics, all suppliers will be already contracted to produce or prepare new parts, there will be leaks, already there will be test prototypes (its just 45 days before March!) and new builds of iOS geared toward new hardware, containing new drivers for newer chips, would be leaking. Since there is NOTHING, tells that industrial scale preparation for new iPads has not moved that far. Indeed, iPad 4 was released just 60 days ago.

So we'd better forget about March release for iPads/new mini.

Also don't forget that newer builds of iOS should already be iOS 7 builds and its been just few weeks ago that Ive took charge. I think beta of iOS7 will be ready by May; therefore June WWDC will be a bombastic conference on new iOS, new iPads, iPads mini, iPhone 6/5S and all other stuff. Its going to be an eruption (of stock too)
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Well, not quite true. Nobody, or at least very, very few predicted the Ipad 4 before it was announced, everbody was talking about the Mini. And Ipad 3 was lanched without a major IOS update, so there is no law that says that a new Ipad has to be launched with a new IOS.

And there actually are rumors that an upgraded Mini is in the pipeline, so I wouldn't say there is "NOTHING": https://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/11/next-generation-ipad-and-ipad-mini-rumored-for-march-launch/
 
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