“For months, we had been hearing rumors and reports that Apple plans to release a new iPhone and a new, smaller iPad model this fall,” Dave Smith reports for The International Business Times. “The exact release date had not yet been predicted until Monday, when iMore’s editor-in-chief Rene Ritchie became the first… ‘iMore has learned that Apple is planning to debut the new iPhone at a special event on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, with the release date to follow 9 days later on Friday, September 21. This information comes from sources who have proven accurate in the past. After Ritchie’s initial report, The Verge, The Loop, Reuters, Bloomberg, the New York Times and CNN all confirmed the date.”
“Ritchie also said that Apple would announce the iPad Mini at the same Sept. 12 event, but he said he did not have an exact release date. Ritchie said ‘it could be the same [date] as the iPhone 5,'” Smith writes. “It’s possible that Apple could release its two heavy-hitting products at the same time, but there are plenty of reasons to believe this dual-release will not happen.”
Smith writes, “If Apple plans to release a smaller, cheaper iPad to the masses at the same time as the iPhone 5, Apple could run into the biggest crowds in the history of the company. And that’s not necessarily a good thing… If Apple decided to launch the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini on the same date, it would be an absolute disaster, especially for customers. Lines are already out the door and around the building; if half of those people are there for iPhone and half for iPad Mini, and a handful of people are there to buy both products, there may not be a way to clearly organize the crowds, even if both products are ready to go at the same time. My guess is, Apple will release the iPhone 5 first to get that giant launch out of the way. Then, maybe a week later, Apple will release the iPad Mini along with all of the other products, including the 13″ Retina MacBook Pro and the new iPods.”
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Four lines at the door: iPhone5, iPad mini, both, neither (doesn’t require an actual line)
I agree. It makes no sense to have two big product roll-outs on the same day.
Expect the iPad “mini” announcement sometime in October.
They could still announce them on the same date.
Can you say massive blowout Super-Nova Apple quarter? (While past it’s initial month of sales, Surface dives below surface and becomes vewy vewy qwiet.)
“The Verge, The Loop, Reuters, Bloomberg, the New York Times and CNN all confirmed the date.”
Appears everyone BUT Apple has confirmed the date.
Would not be good for total sales as well.one at a time is the way to go.
Only retards like you care about sales. Apple doesn’t care about money. In fact Apple is indifferent to the concept of money. Apple only cares about making great products.
– Jonathan Ive
Apple will announce these on the same day.
– iPhone 5
– iPad mini
– iPod touch
– iPod nano
– iMac Retina display
– MacBook Pro 17″ Retina display
– MacBook Pro 13″ Retina display
– Mac Pro
Who cares about the lines. Let the crowd trample themselves to death. If you’re not smart enough to order online, Darwinism should cull the colossally stupid.
Does that mean you will be eradicated?
I don’t know, is your IQ over 20?
You can count to twenty?
Not so sure about the Mac Pro. 50/50 chance or less, I feel. 😉
It would be a suicide run to get to the apple store
With all of the leaks of the new iPhone, if the ipad mini was imminent we would also see the same. I have no doubt we will see the ipad mini soon, but it doesn’t look like it will be September.
Heya
what if everyone is mistaken??
What if the Ipad Mini is actually the Iphone 5??
What if the Iphone 5 is actually the ipod touch??
gtfo
They could do what they did in China. Get customers to pre-book at their local store and be given a collection time slot so that the whole process is much more manageable.
Big lines are so passé.
It’s possible that Apple could release its two heavy-hitting products at the same time, but there are plenty of reasons to believe this dual-release will not happen.
Like the fact that the iPad ‘Mini’ is a bad idea that will never be anything more than mythology.
(I know! Line up that hats I’ll have to eat if the thing becomes real. But if it the iPad ‘Mini’ does occur, I fully expect it to fad-fade away in short order.)
If the iPad mini does come out: 3 will be coming my way. I will order online cuz I find it senseless to stand in line. Even though others like the hang time with complete strangers.
I will also be buying 2 iPhone 5’s…
Apple will be enjoying my spending spree 🙂
iPad mini will get its own media event. October.