“No sooner than the iPhone 6 frenzy is over, rumours have surfaced that Apple’s next product announcement is just days away,” Hannah Francis reports for Stuff.co.nz.
“According to tech website Re/code, Apple is expected to unveil new versions of iPad, iPad mini and iMac, along with the new Mac operating system, OS X Yosemite 10.10, on October 16,” Francis reports. “Previously the company was expected to be holding the launch event one week later, on October 21. The event is tipped to take place at Apple’s Town Hall Auditorium in Cupertino, California.”
Francis reports, “In addition to the October iPad announcements, insiders have said Apple’s biggest ever iPad, with a 12.9-inch screen (diagonal), is in the pipeline for production in the first quarter of 2015.”
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I doubt iPhone 6 Frenzy will be over before a year from now.
Indeed! Since the writer lives in New Zealand, I’m surprised she hasn’t heard of China and India.
I’m really curious to see whats going to happen with the iPod line. Any predictions?
Suspect they will slowly phase out all but the simplest iPods ….. May get a new one with hand me down tech from iPhone but as far as research think not so much!
They’ll keep making them in any color you want . . . as long as it is white. 😉
I was thinking how disruptive an iPod touch 5.5″ screen would be to the gadget market
There will continue to be iPods, because there is a need for a small media player. Apple Watch is many things, but it’s not meant to replace iPod as a pure media player, and carrying around an iPhone all the time (as your media player) is not ideal, especially now that they are bigger.
The “other” iPod, which is not really an “iPod,” is iPod touch. It will also continue as the iPhone without the phone parts. I think the current version will hang on for another year, and then be replaced by a new model that is based on the current iPhone 6 tech. And that model will be in the lineup for two or three years. iPod touch is tricky, because creating one using the latest iPhone tech makes the price tag too high; there is no carrier subsidy like with iPhone. So, it will lag behind the latest iPhone model.
Later on (perhaps many year from now), the concept of a smart “phone” will become outdated. It’s already a bit ridiculous to call an iPhone a “phone,” because for most users, as a “phone” is probably less than 10% of how they use an iPhone. It’s a mobile computer. And it will become the “hub” for wearable computing (starting with Apple Watch). And perhaps the name “iPod” will one day be back as Apple’s most prominent brand.
I think the name “iPod” has an advantage. A “Mac” is a computer. An “iPhone” is a phone. An “iPad” is a tablet. But an “iPod” can evolve, and whatever it becomes, Apple will continue to have products with the “iPod” name.
1 MaxiPad for me, please.
That is all.
Load, action, instant. Ready and waiting on a BTO top end iMac.
New iPads, Macs could be unveiled in days …. or NOT.
At this point ONLY Apple knows.
Waiting for new Apple TV…
These new product rollouts are exhausting. How much can human flesh take?
i have yet to discover a human who can find that limit in me, or even a company of humans
I’d love to see:
– Mac mini with an Iris graphics processor, Iris Pro on the high end.
– Quad-core Hyper-Threaded processors on the iMacs, better graphics.
– A Mac Pro that doesn’t use AMD FirePros. Some of us want to game. >.>
Guess I should finally upgrade my work iMac to 10.9, or at the VERY least 10.8 (from 10.7).
D’oh!
(What can I say, it works fine and I hate having downtime and lost productivity from a system upgrade – my personal MacBook Pro is on the latest and greatest though)