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

its93rc said:
I don't like Prosser's attitude, but I do see Apple releasing the Watch and iPad via press release. It makes sense in 2020. These are most likely minor (but welcomed) updates that Apple can post on their site before releasing the iPhone upgrades later this month-November.

Why is everyone here so negative about this? Am I the only one excited? This is MacRumors! Part of the fun of being here is the misleading rumors! Remember the teardrop iPhone 5?
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I do remember that. Those were the days. Sadly, the community was just as toxic back then as they are now. When the 4S was announced instead of the mythical teardrop designed iPhone 5, everyone got their Jimmy’s all Rustled, because it was the first Keynote with Tim as CEO, and everyone thought that this was the beginning of the downfall, and this was him proving that he wasn’t fit to run the company, because that phone wasn’t innovative enough. You know, despite the fact that it had been in development for over a year under Jobs.
Ah, memories
 
Jon has been feeding wrong info about products many times:
1. Hardwares on WWDC
2. iPhoneOS
3. Air Tags
4. Fake AirPower photos

He is most accurate at event dates and times but not products
 
Seemingly 90% of MR, 9to5mac, Apple reddit If Prosser is wrong: “SEE? SEE WE TOLD YOU HES F.O.S. AND BS AND NEEDS A NEW JOB AND GURMAN ALL THE WAY”

Seemingly 90% of MR, 9to5mac, Apple reddit if Prosser is right: “He never gets anything right. He’s not a leaker. He’s also arrogant. He just got lucky this one time. Gurman just had different sources. He’s still the best because he’s not arrogant.”

Seriously, never ceases to amaze me how wrapped up some people get in these Twitter famous leakers. I hope Prosser is right because I want to see new products sooner than later, not because I have some axe to grind for or against him

The slanderous characterizations of him though, that is not cool. Real shame, as it makes the posters on all these sites who defame him simply projecting themselves on to him.
The dark side of fanboys (and girls) of any type; the toxic ones...
 
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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None of the watches are sold out in the Canadian store.
 
iFan said:
One day I hope I have random internet strangers who will go out of their way to spend many minutes of their free time defending my honor on macrumors by only typing up my wins and ignoring all of my misses/faults.

Must be nice. Brb going to go use my AirPods Studio connected to my iPhoneOS to listen to a podcast about my heritage edition glasses and Xcode for iPad. Been using all these products since WWDC thanks to Jon!
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^ This 100% haha.

But this post literally also applies to Gurman and any leaker at all who has been wrong ;)

But that’s why he doesn’t have a 100% record.
 
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its93rc said:
I don't like Prosser's attitude, but I do see Apple releasing the Watch and iPad via press release. It makes sense in 2020. These are most likely minor (but welcomed) updates that Apple can post on their site before releasing the iPhone upgrades later this month-November.

Why is everyone here so negative about this? Am I the only one excited? This is MacRumors! Part of the fun of being here is the misleading rumors! Remember the teardrop iPhone 5?
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I don’t know where the Prosser attitude narrative started from. Dude is a goofball and tries to make jokes. He has made some funny ones over the years. He’s a very reasonable guy if you listen to his interviews on other shows.

Macrumours is a site for all rumours, true or not. People who want to see how credible leakers are can just go to AppleTrack and use their own brains to reach their own conclusions about the validity of the leaks.

Not even Gurman has 100% right, and he’s often late to the party with leaks these last few years, as he needs to be more certain before reporting. Being with Bloomberg, he is big time; more at stake. He can’t spew little bits of info like Prosser and smaller leakers do, even if they are correct.
 
Do the folks who follow these cottage industry classes still buy Apple products for actual productive use or just to have the latest status symbols? Are you using it to learn, listen music, watch videos, keep notes, do your taxes, communicate with friends and family, try to make your society much better and more efficient?
 
nordique said:
I don’t know where the Prosser attitude narrative started from. Dude is a goofball and tries to make jokes. He has made some funny ones over the years. He’s a very reasonable guy if you listen to his interviews on other shows.

Macrumours is a site for all rumours, true or not. People who want to see how credible leakers are can just go to AppleTrack and use their own brains to reach their own conclusions about the validity of the leaks.

Not even Gurman has 100% right, and he’s often late to the party with leaks these last few years, as he needs to be more certain before reporting. Being with Bloomberg, he is big time; more at stake. He can’t spew little bits of info like Prosser and smaller leakers do, even if they are correct.
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it also has to do with this strange idea that people have that to be an actual weeker you have to be part of a blog. Or some kind of news site. Even to this day, Youtubers and the like are still not taken anywhere near as seriously as traditional journalists, even though they should be.
 
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