“After years of consecutive record-breaking quarters, it seems a bit like pointing at the moon to say that Apple is going to have a successful 2012,” Anthony John Agnello writes for InvestorPlace via TheStreet. “Consumer excitement for the company’s products remains high. Wall Street remains rapt by the company as well. Despite a few months of wiggling, it’s not unrealistic to think AAPL shares could very well hit $500.”
“2012 will not be another year of merely refinement,” Agnello writes. “Much as 2010 was marked by the release of bold new releases — particularly the original iPad — next year will see Apple release a number of new devices sure to capture the attention of excited consumers.”
Here are five big Apple releases to expect in 2012:
• Apple HDTV
• Apple Motion Control
• Touchscreen Mac, MacBook Air
• iPhone 5
• iPad 3, ‘iPad mini’
Read more in the full article here.
Why would they call it the iPhone 5 when it would be the 6th generation?
Usually in a numerical system that observes rigorous mathematical rules, 5 follows 4.
“1,2,5” “3 Sir!” “3!”
What, like 1, 3G, 3Gs, 4, 4s…?
I make that five models, but numbered up to four.
Anyone like to explain why Apple would change and jump to 6 instead of 5?
Rounding error.
Damn floating decimal point errors!
Outcome-based education.
Don’t start that again!
AAPL’s emphasis on AI and nanotechnology should increasingly produce “intelligent” products that further shroud the OS.
Still too early for a robot, but the next SIRIphone will be a step in that direction.
I’d like them to finally come out with that ice cream machine that was rumored a couple years ago. Mine never works quite right.
Google stole it to make ice cream sandwiches.
There will not be Touchscreen Macs. The Magic Trackpad was created so that gesture control could be done with the Mac.
I bet we will see a MacBook Air that is in essence two iPads with a hinge.
Maybe not in 2012, but eventually. And I don’t buy the HDTV idea.
I agree with the 2 iPads and a hinge idea. Apple already has a patent on it. I’d buy one in a second if they can figure out how to get rid of the line in the center and make it one big seamless screen in landscape, and keyboard and monitor in portrait.
Has anyone come up with an app to do this with 2 iPads? I’m pretty sure you can remote in, but can you actually split duties like a DS?
personal opinion–if the 7.x screen size is more than a rumor, why couldn’t it be for a “portable/viewable” AppleTV that would connect to large (full size) TV set when desired?
There WILL be touchscreen Macs.
iCal it!
I call bullsh*t for everything but the iPad 3 & iPhone 6
see 1st comment…
“touchscreen mac, ipad mini”……..i deeply hope NOT!
I hope not and I don’t think so.
I’m going to take the next two weeks off from work just so I can spam the reload page button as I eagerly await a reply indicating what year Apple has ever been dumb enough to launch 5 brand new/completely overhauled products.
Touchscreen Mac, it’l never happen unless the also release a product called iArmrest
-No
-No
-No, hell no
-No shit
-No shit, hell no
I believe 90% of the analyst community consist of nothing but rooms full of monkeys banging on keyboards.
…we are the 10% ? ;P
No! We are the 1%!
*occupies your front lawn*
These clueless Wall Street psychics can’t see past what Apple has already done. They still can’t see the next “Just one more thing” and only talk about what Apple is doing or done. No vision. None!
What is the next market that Apple will choose to reshape and dominate? What’s Apple’s next “Just one more thing”?
Until they come to grips with the fact that Apple did not die with Steve Jobs. His hand picked innovative team is hard at work trying to honor Steve’s visions of where Apple is going. Apple’s next “Just one more thing” will blow them away!
I lost you right where you wrote “just one more thing” instead of just “one more thing”.
I am waiting to buy a new MacBook Pro in April or May.
So am I!!!
Me too. I hope my 2007 model (the fans starting to rattle, the battery is dead, the monitor shuts off when it’s hot) keeps on trucking to the end.
What about iWorks? Isn’t a updated version of Pages, Numbers and Keynote long over due?
The last time I checked, iWorks was software and rarely has it been classified as “just one more thing”.
As for the “list” – the denizens of the obvious have no vision. Which is apropos for a collective group who has serious cases of hyperrectalcranialosis – unless they have windows installed in their stomachs.
I call this an early attempt at shorting.
Cheers…
Obviously, the iPhone 5 will come true, though I bet they name it iPhone 4G, since it will be LTE. iPad 3 is obvious too. The others? I doubt it. Apple only introduces products it can make a high margin on. None of those qualify.
Very logical my paduwan!
I’m thinking it will be iPhone 4G or iPhone 4GS as well.
iPhone “4G” or “4GS” are both horrible next gen names. Confusing, also wrong direction in the alphabet. Try again.
I need one more version of the MacPro in 2012.
Apple Kinect ? Really ? Its overdue actually.
Yes, no, no, yes, yes and no
Touchscreen Macs, I don’t think so. Everything else, maybe.
I thought the ipod was the ipad mini?
A common misconception, Dave. It is actually the iPod NANO.
Argh! I meant the IPAD nano!!
As usual they got them all wrong and wayyy too vague.
Should have been like this:
• Apple HDTV with motion control and true i2i Facetime via embedded cameras, making MicroSoft look more Dis-Kinected than ever.
• Apple Mission Control (big friggin mothership BLDG is just a diversion. Apple buys/becomes a US service provider outright. Orwellian assertions follow from Google and MicroSoft.
• Mac, MacBook Air, iPad essentially become one as Apple announces the end of Mac OSX in favor of iOS. Wailing and gnashing of teeth ensues in the streets.
• iPhone 5 (duh!) … in two sizes, current and 4″ screens, plus a lower price point, puts the final nail in RIMs coffin.
• iPad 3, (‘iii-Pad’ as others will call it.)