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Prosser: Sources 'Not Budging' on Claims of New iPad Air and Apple Watch Tomorrow

sdiori said:
Oh man, it's time for my annual second fav game of: "WHAT DOES THE INVITATION MEAN?!" (Only behind "shipped" threads)

"Look at the design...is that an infiniti sign?! Is the iPhone INFINITI near"!

"I see an "e"...for education. Is Apple making a sub-MacBook Air to take on Chromebooks in classrooms...because COVID?!"

I'm not kidding...I love the dumb speculation. lol
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We might as well start some speculations haha!

What's with this 9.15 opens up when you tap on the logo of the event ? Any guesses ?

I'm just messin but would be so funny to hear some crazy ideas about this rather than it's just the date of the event 😂

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Lounge vibes 05 said:
See here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter what you think about Jon’s personality. That has absolutely no relation to how reliable his information is. And while he’s been incorrect about future product features, and distant plans, when he says a solid release date, at least the last several times that he’s done so, he’s always right.
He said that Apple would be releasing some new products the week of March 15. Three days later on Wednesday, March 18, we got the new iPad pros, MacBook airs, and Mac minis.
On Tuesday, March 31, he said the iPhone SE would launch on April 15. Every other website and leaker said he was wrong, but April 15 arrived along with the iPhone SE.
He said a 13 inch MacBook Pro would arrive in May, and wouldn’t you know, it arrived on May 4.
He said the new iMac would not arrive in July as other people were saying, but would come out in August. August 4 came with a new iMac.
So when he says that new watches and iPads are coming on September 8, with an Apple event scheduled for the week of October 12, I tend to believe him. Now if he were to go on and say that they’re going to announce Apple glass, airpower, and all that kind of stuff, then he starts to enter murky territory.
But this release schedule makes complete sense with the restrictions that are currently going on. Almost every series 5 model is completely out of stock, and if it’s true that Apple doesn’t plan to have an event until October, I highly doubt they’re gonna leave the Apple Watch with no supply for an entire month. What would their stockholders say? How would they report Septembers data at their quarterly earnings call, if the watch sold zero units because there were none available?
Of course Apple is not gonna do something stupid like that.
So tomorrow, we’re going to get new iPads and Apple watches.
Then in October, we’ll get new iPhones, AirPods, airtags, and ARM MacBooks, along with whatever other surprises they have up their sleeve.
Also, I have mad props for Mark pre-2019, but over the last year or so, his reporting has become very shaky.
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This didn’t age well. Lmao
 
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Jony Ive and Co. said:
This is an ALL-OUT WAR between Jon Prosser and Mark Gurman. The stakes are extremely high and the loser MUST shoulder the full consequences. THIS MEANS WHOEVER IS WRONG TOMORROW MUST HAVE THEIR CREDIBILITY COMPLETELY WIPED TO ZERO, AND THAT PERSON MUST SHAMEFULLY EXIT THE RUMOR MILLS FOREVER - MACRUMORS SHOULD NEVER REPORT ON THAT PERSON EVER AGAIN AS HE WILL HAVE NO CREDIBILITY AT ALL. We cannot and should not allow whoever is wrong tomorrow to keep messing with unreliable rumors on MR in the future, and raising our false hopes. This is simply the stakes of what happens when two so-called leakers try to throw crap on the wall and see what sticks. This approach has no place in the world at all.
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calm down crazy
 
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The way I look at it, I don't necessarily say he was wrong. We we're supposed to get the event until October. Maybe they planned to release the watch and iPad earlier so the public can start spending money sooner and not having to wait until October/November. However maybe production is going better than expected and they moved it up and it didn't make sense to release the watch/iPad today with the event next week.

Let's see when the watch and iPad are available to actual purchase.
 
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Norre8 said:
The way I look at it, I don't necessarily say he was wrong. We we're supposed to get the event until October. Maybe they planned to release the watch and iPad earlier so the public can start spending money sooner and not having to wait until October/November. However maybe production is going better than expected and they moved it up and it didn't make sense to release the watch/iPad today with the event next week.

Let's see when the watch and iPad are available to actual purchase.
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He specifically said new ipads and watches today.

He was wrong.
 
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Black Belt said:
Try and buy a watch in the Apple store. You can't.
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Which suggests that the new Apple Watches will be ready as of the 15th. Any watches sold by Apple within the two week window would be subject to returns. Makes sense to deplete supply rather than sell watches that will just be returned when the 6 and new series 3 comes out.
 
Norre8 said:
I'm not saying he wasn't wrong, I'm saying things could have changed.
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LOL what? Are you saying Apple just decided to do away with the press release and start filming their keynote?

there was already talk way prior to him tweeting about the Apple Watch and ipads that filming of the keynote at Apple campus had already begun...

if things changed it changed long ago not just
 
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Seanm87 said:
He specifically said new ipads and watches today.

He was wrong.
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i certainly had my wallet out. This bright, white spot near the home button on the iPad 6 is driving me mad. Pair that with daily app freezes, force restarts, and the infamous "a problem occurred with this webpage..," it's unacceptable in 2020. I would like a new iPad, one that won't be a dinosaur within the month.
 
So he was wrong. Lets stop giving him a platform then please.
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
See here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter what you think about Jon’s personality. That has absolutely no relation to how reliable his information is. And while he’s been incorrect about future product features, and distant plans, when he says a solid release date, at least the last several times that he’s done so, he’s always right.
He said that Apple would be releasing some new products the week of March 15. Three days later on Wednesday, March 18, we got the new iPad pros, MacBook airs, and Mac minis.
On Tuesday, March 31, he said the iPhone SE would launch on April 15. Every other website and leaker said he was wrong, but April 15 arrived along with the iPhone SE.
He said a 13 inch MacBook Pro would arrive in May, and wouldn’t you know, it arrived on May 4.
He said the new iMac would not arrive in July as other people were saying, but would come out in August. August 4 came with a new iMac.
So when he says that new watches and iPads are coming on September 8, with an Apple event scheduled for the week of October 12, I tend to believe him. Now if he were to go on and say that they’re going to announce Apple glass, airpower, and all that kind of stuff, then he starts to enter murky territory.
But this release schedule makes complete sense with the restrictions that are currently going on. Almost every series 5 model is completely out of stock, and if it’s true that Apple doesn’t plan to have an event until October, I highly doubt they’re gonna leave the Apple Watch with no supply for an entire month. What would their stockholders say? How would they report Septembers data at their quarterly earnings call, if the watch sold zero units because there were none available?
Of course Apple is not gonna do something stupid like that.
So tomorrow, we’re going to get new iPads and Apple watches.
Then in October, we’ll get new iPhones, AirPods, airtags, and ARM MacBooks, along with whatever other surprises they have up their sleeve.
Also, I have mad props for Mark pre-2019, but over the last year or so, his reporting has become very shaky.
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Well that was not unexpected was it.
 
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Norre8 said:
The way I look at it, I don't necessarily say he was wrong. We we're supposed to get the event until October. Maybe they planned to release the watch and iPad earlier so the public can start spending money sooner and not having to wait until October/November. However maybe production is going better than expected and they moved it up and it didn't make sense to release the watch/iPad today with the event next week.

Let's see when the watch and iPad are available to actual purchase.
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Maybe he was simply wrong.

Maybe he's wearing Maybelline to cover it up.
 
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Name any “expert” that hasn’t gotten potential Apple announcements wrong. If you quit using their information then you will have a website dedicated to ‘No News Today’ and a bunch of posters complaining about that fact. Which seems to be what posters on this site (and I am not excluding myself) prefer to do.
 
Phone Junky said:
I understand what you're saying. I guess if you see his name in the thread title, ignore that thread. Yet, here you are in the middle of a thread with his name in the title (actually the very first word) and posting in it. It's almost like Apple haters signing up on MacRumors and then bashing Apple all the time. Why even sign up?
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If I wanted to stop seeing his name in thread titles, I’m not supposed to speak up? What a stupid idea.

You obviously love Jon and you’d defend him no matter what (even though he was wrong today) so I’m not going to bother continuing this conversation with you as there’s no changing your mind. Have a good one.
 
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