I'd really like that updated Apple TV, please!
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New HomePod Mini, Apple TV, and AirTag Were Expected This Year — Where Are They?
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The top toolbar link did not work for me. It went to the following dead link.
Apple won't go into holiday season with limited stock for an item that should be popular at this time of year.
Doubtful they’d launch anything after invoking a holiday return season policy, happy to be wrong tho.
Really not sure what they can actually do to upgrade AppleTV. Great controller, simple and works well. What is going to be different outside of being faster? Everything else comes down to the UI.
https://www.apple.com/ie/apple-tv/ is not working but https://www.apple.com/ie/apple-tv-4k/ is working. Not sure why page is pointing to the non-working page. Maybe they are renaming Apple TV 4K to Apple TV?It could just as well be that their holiday theming of the store has gone wrong.
You can see it for yourself here - click on Apple TV 4K (link is to the Irish store)
Apple Store Online
Give something special this festive season. Shop the latest gifts, add free engraving and get personalised shopping help from a Specialist.www.apple.com
Let's try reverse psychology on them. "I don't need anything else from Apple this year, so I'm glad nothing else is going to be released and tempt me."
Working here in the States. Click on TV & HOME, then SHOP APPLE TV 4K. HomePod links are also working
It could just as well be that their holiday theming of the store has gone wrong.
You can see it for yourself here - click on Apple TV 4K (link is to the Irish store)
Apple Store Online
Give something special this festive season. Shop the latest gifts, add free engraving and get personalised shopping help from a Specialist.www.apple.com
Looks like the problem here is that they didn't update the Apple TV branding on the Irish site (changing Apple TV+ to Apple TV). The Apple TV (service) page is still at https://www.apple.com/ie/apple-tv-plus/ on the Irish site. That broken link is intended to go the Apple TV (service) page, but they must have forgotten to update or move that page.
In the US,
https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-plus/ was changed (and redirects) to https://www.apple.com/apple-tv/. They apparently forgot to do that for other countries. It's broken for other countries too.
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so in summary: no one knows anything about these products or their expected release dates
Consumers are even more price conscious currently.
Any newly released products would not be eligible for Apple's Black Friday sale (as happened with last year's Air Pods 4), lack of discount likely hurting holiday sales, and turned consumers off on Apple and their high prices.
Better to be able to clear out old inventory with good discounts and make the consumer happy.
(No one has been buying the HomePod Mini anyway...)
-R
Any newly released products would not be eligible for Apple's Black Friday sale (as happened with last year's Air Pods 4), lack of discount likely hurting holiday sales, and turned consumers off on Apple and their high prices.
Better to be able to clear out old inventory with good discounts and make the consumer happy.
(No one has been buying the HomePod Mini anyway...)
-R
Really hope they drop the HomePod minis soon. I want to buy a couple of them for Christmas gifts but don’t want to buy the 1’s just for the 2’s to drop. It’s odd that stock has dried up for the 1’s in a lot of places and Apple wouldn’t release the 2’s in time for the holidays…
Exactly. They’ll refresh it, and maybe they’re trying to time it so it’s released right before Black Friday.
Was gonna say, I noticed that today and I live in the UK.
Seems to work on US store okay.
Hopefully, a new TV will drop!
