“Investors are obviously quite optimistic about Apple’s prospects heading into September, sending shares to all-time highs — and for good reason, too, as the company is widely expected to unveil a slew of new products,” Evan Niu writes for The Motley Fool.
“Last month, reports began to surface with some specific dates, saying that Apple was planning on hosting a media event on Sept. 12 to unveil the new iPhone as well as potentially the mythical iPad Mini and new iPod models,” Niu writes. “Those same rumors pointed to Sept. 21 as the date of official launch, just nine days after the potential unveiling. Well, there are now two more hints that investors and consumers can count on those dates.”
Niu writes, “Numerous Apple resellers in Europe have been instructed to clear additional table real estate for iPad displays over the next several weeks, with the deadline being specifically Sept. 12…. [and] Verizon has instituted a companywide vacation blackout from Sept. 21 through the end of the month, signaling that the carrier thinks it will as many able-bodied employees as it can from its ranks.”
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Ok I need the iPhone and a new iMac ! Been waiting ages for the new iMac with USB 3
+1 Feel for you. I’m in same boat. New iMacs soon Apple, okay!
New Mac Pro’s too – we haven’t gotten the Apple love in a looooong time in any significant way (with still no USB 3 & Thunderbolt in a PRO machine!!!) But it won’t happen until next year… dang…
Damn well better be a slew of new products. I’ve been waiting long enough already.
The dead giveaway that Apple is about to release some spectacular products is the increasing frequency with which anti-Apple hit pieces are being published. “Drunken Apple employees using customer hard drives as skateboards”??
+1
Excellent, pdr400! Thought it was just me being hyper-sensitive.
Mac mini with USB 3.0 please!!!
Apple will announce these in September:
– iPhone 5 – 4″ screen (one can hope for 4.3″ anyway)
– iPad mini – 7.85″ screen, 4:3 ratio
– refreshed iMac – no Retina display, just refreshed innards
– refreshed Mac mini – updated innards with discrete GPU
– iPod touch – same 4″ screen as the iPhone 5
– iPod nano – with Bluetooth capability to talk to your iPhone/iPod touch to answer calls, play music, read SMS, send iMessage, read email headers, etc remotely
– unchanged iPod shuffle
The iPod classic will be deprecated (it’s dead, Jim).
I would prefer that list to be these in the next 6 months:
– iPhone 5 with 16:9 screen ratio offered for ALL major worldwide carriers (including T-Mobile in Americas)
– refreshed iMac with Retina display option
– refreshed mini with significant GPU improvements
– new Mac Pro with Thunderbolt
– updates across the iPod line, retaining the classic iPod but with huge flash memory and pro-level audio/video outputs
– iWork 2013 with significant enhancements
– fix Final Cut Pro
– updated Apple TV Pro with internal storage & significantly improved media offerings
– 30″ OLED displays
– significant improvements to Mac OS to restore lost functionality and improve the App Store search and display features, as well as more easily removing the juvenile “social networking” and “cloud” integration that productivity users don’t want.
… and one more thing:
proper iPhone or iPad docks built into automobiles and airplanes. What the heck are they waiting for?
think BLN has it right
@C3PO:
Let’s just hope no for the 4:3 screen ratio. That’s a fail since the vast majority of large monitors and new media have moved to the 16:9 ratio — and a more rectangular (less square) object tends to fit better in one’s pocket.
One thing is for sure: Apple’s market cap will go the way of Microsoft’s if it doesn’t release some real innovation soon.
fantastic,
looking forward to this, ” iPod nano – with Bluetooth capability to talk to your iPhone/iPod touch to answer calls, play music, read SMS, send iMessage, read email headers, etc remotely”
a Dick Tracey watch
Kudos to the aggressive laundry list of new products.
Have no specific data to point to, but seem to recall the launches often fall short of rumor speculation, stock dives and negative comments seep into media reports.
It is what it is.
If you are wrong your left testicle will be castrated.
NEWS: 10.8.1 now in the App store.
That was quick and painless, thank you.
it was a sweet update and now looking forward to a similar 10.8.2
Are we anticipating a one-two punch – iPad/iPod on September 12, quickly followed on by iPhone 5 on September 21? The competition won’t know what hit them. No hints yet on the upgraded Apple TV.
Stll waitin for an iPad Maxi – 14 inches baby!
The ‘MaxiPad?’
Size matters baby, if it happens it would be a big deal.
the Mac-e-Pad — Max-iPad