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Prosser: iPad and Apple Watch Series 6 Press Release Planned for September 8 [Updated]
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If they hold an online event in a few days, they could announce the Watch during the event and have it available on the store immediately, while the iPhone announced the same day would ship later in October. Putting on sale the Watch only with a press release would be weird, but if it is only a minor update it could be that way
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Why would Apple release iOS 13.7 last week and release iOS 14 this week? And why would they suddenly release an Apple Watch through a press release for the first time ever and not together with their new flagship iPhones on an event?
I am with you on the watch screens. I would like to be able to get the aluminum model with sapphire.
A company that is finding, like most, ways to circumnavigate around the restrictions that COVID 19 force us to live around.
why apple did their first digital event? why why
Just looking back at the WWDC keynote, and Tim states that all the OS's will be available in the Fall? So as that's 01 September thru to 30 November, there is still time, no timeframe given on hardware, other than some new Intel mac's coming soon.
I mean seriously tho, who think's Apple would reveal a new series of watches at a random press event. No by, even I could predict that. If this is the best prediction you can make you're in the wrong game. Also, first "predicting" new models and iPads and then just the iPhone event that everyone knew was coming anyways, thats when predictions become rumours.
One is a fairly minor update. But also, iOS 13.1 came just five days after 13.0, so…
Right.
I think a press release for the new iPad Air is plausible. Perhaps even one for an Apple Watch SE. For the flagship Watch Series 6? I don't see it.
So why didn't they announce their switch to Apple Silicon through a press release? Or iOS 14? Or macOS Big Sur?
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Most probably because of this thing called WWDC. An event which is so important to Apple and it's developer world. Where it gives both the opportunity to discuss the future, understand the present, and innovate. The OS releases are so important to them that they present them there, and for the week after, spend time going through them with developers from all over the world. When they release the OS's to market, no press release, it's just pushed.
Yeah, EXACTLY. That's why they always hold an event in September to announce new iPhones and Apple Watches, because it
and they don't release flagships through a press release. (And no, the iPhone SE is not a flagship)
If the new watch has SP02 as rumored, I would think Apple would really want to make a big announcement about that and explain about how the watch works in that regard, not to mention speaking about the different groups it could help. It is a big marketing moment for Apple, in my opinion.
Maybe Apple is turning everything on its proverbial head this year. At the moment, I am still in the don’t believe it camp.
I tend to agree, but OTOH, there was only a press release for the Magic Keyboard, even though that was quite a big deal for iPad Pro users.
I see it more that the product itself wouldn’t have been enough to carry its own keynote, though we did get a short demo video from Craig himself.
In March 2019 they announced new AirPods, iPads and iMac the week before an event. So it has happened before.
Given that rumoured still to be coming this year are new over-ear headphones, AirTags, AirPower and ARM Macs, Apple will probably want to dedicate time to these at an event as they are all new products for them whereas the Apple Watch 6 sounds like it will be a fairly small update which would warrant a press release over stage time.
