EVERY leaker including your almighty Kuo got the watch 7 series wrong.
they all got trolled by Apple.
Period.
stop picking sides nobody won.
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Prosser: Apple Watch Series 7 to Ship in Mid-October
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they all got trolled by Apple.
Period.
stop picking sides nobody won.
Like most of the people here, I sometimes find Prosser’s character annoying. Most of the times 😂. But please, in these days and age, let’s just focus on facts.
Source Leaderboard - AppleTrack
Top Apple Sources in 2022 # Name Accuracy 1 🐟 Ross Young 92.9% 2 🏀 Mark Gurman 86.5% 3 📉 Trendforce 84.5% 4 🎧 52audio 83.3% 5 🕘 9to5Mac 82.8% 6 ❓ MacRumors 72.7% 7 🇨🇳 China Times 72.7% 8 👨💻 Ming-Chi Kuo 72.5% 9 🧻 Jon Prosser 69.1% 10 🍍 Max Weinbach 69% 11 […]appletrack.com
If this website is to be believed, he’s as accurate as Kuo.
Wow...That's actually super surprising, but I very much appreciate that you brought that scoreboard to light. I guess I have to stand corrected about Kuo vs. Prosser. I can admit when I'm wrong. I think I fall into the category of people you described, who find him personally annoying, and obviously that has biased me.
Thank you for adding data to the conversation.
It would be interesting to see an "accuracy trend line" over time. I say this because I suspect that Prosser's sources have been identified/compromised by Apple within the last year or so, whereas I don't know if that is true of Kuo or not.
The scoreboard doesn’t take into account the quality of the prediction. One may predict many obvious things and therefore score high. Flawed methodology.
That is a fair criticism. Nevertheless, it does somewhat diminish the validity of the "Prosser is always wrong and Kuo is usually right" narrative.
This running joke promoting Prosser is flatlining. Like the sides of the W7
Give the guy a break. He gets most of the stuff right and lets just be real for a second here, when it comes to the Apple Watch flat edges redesign he was no alone. Pretty much all leakers and analysts got it completely wrong.
Actually it isn’t, it’s around the same.
all the top leakers got the Apple Watch leak wrong here. Doesn’t mean every leak is going to be wrong from here.
mid October does seem likely based on the fact production was said to be getting started
There’s nothing to suggest changes in pricing for the small and larger entry models.
It will be $399 for 41mm and $429 for 45mm base models.
What the new high end bands will cost us anyone’s guess.
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People on here forget that all(!) the leakers got AW7 wrong.
Prosser still has a track record of being right some 74% which is the same as Kuo and really not that bad.
The difference with Prosser and why people love to hate him is that he puts his face and persona out there while everyone else is anonymous.
You guys have nowhere near the same hate for leakers that are nothing more than a name or a twitter handle.
There's a great breakdown on why Prosser (who is just as reliable as anyone else) and the other leakers were wrong about S7 on this video:
"October timeframe" since you're being pedantic. And just because a version was released at the end of Sept doesn't mean everyone got it then. For example the watch on my wrist I couldn't get until mid-October.
I know Prosser has this weird, rabid fanbase but he's an incredibly unreliable leaker and nothing will change that. The only things he gets right are again, the obvious things.
Obvious things like Gurman predicts saying Mac’s will be here anytime from September to November …going by this Gurman shouldn’t get credit for this either.
Link not working for me? Were there prices too?
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I did the same. Walmart even has the Series 6 for $50 off.
The Apple Watch Series 7 did not get the design changes we were expecting, including the flat-edged design described by Prosser earlier this year.
Were we?
Were we?