They’ve spent a whirlwind of a month on Apple rumors. First, we learned from Jon Prosser, who was a loser, that an Apple event was scheduled for March 16th, but this was discarded by BloombergMark Gurman. After that date, Prosser and other users suggested there would be an Apple event on March 23, which doesn’t seem to be happening either.
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With the attention now shifting to April, we have drawn up this summary of the state of affairs.
Rumors pass in April
The first word that Apple might have planned for the April announcements came from the Japanese website Mac Otakara in early January. Citing supply chain sources, the blog claimed that Apple would launch second-generation AirPods Pro and a third-generation iPhone SE in April, but the report did not specify whether the products would be announced at an event or with press releases. of press. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has since stated that a new iPhone SE will not be launched until 2022, but new AirPods Pro can still be made this spring.
The April talk intensified this week, beginning with a report on the publication of the Taiwanese supply chain DigiTimes which claimed volume shipments of Mini-LED display components for a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro will begin in the second quarter of 2021, spanning from April to June. This was followed by a report from Gurman, which stated that it plans to announce new iPads in April, including the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models.
In particular, Gurman claimed that the new iPad Pro models could have a Thunderbolt connector. No doubt this rumor sounds plausible, as the new iPad Pro models are expected to be equipped with a faster A14X chip based on the M1 chip of the latest Mac versions, and the M1 chip is compatible with Thunderbolt. And since Thunderbolt uses the USB-C connector design, the new iPad Pro models would continue to work with existing USB-C chargers and accessories.
As widely rumored, Gurman said Apple wants to include Mini-LED backlighting in the new iPad Pro at least 12.9 inches, suggesting that Mini-LED display technology could be exclusive to the larger model, at least for now. now.
Kuo was added to the stack early Thursday, claiming that mass production of iPad Mini-LEDs would begin in mid-April and late April.
Apple Event in April?
Apple’s last April event was in 2010, when the late Steve Jobs announced the preview of the developer of the iPhone OS 4 (later renamed iOS 4) in the small conference center of the City Hall from Apple, to its former Infinite Loop headquarters.
According to Prosser, however, Apple plans to host an event in April this year. In a YouTube video today, Prosser said he was actually told by a “vague and mysterious” source who has been “100% accurate” that there would be an event from April to late February, but Prosser thought it was he produced an event in April “little or no sense” and was more inclined to believe his sources mentioned a March 23 event.
Prosser himself acknowledges that it’s worth treating this April event rumor with some skepticism, as it would be Apple’s first event in 11 years, but he stressed the perfect trajectory of its source. It is also worth noting that Prosser has been inaccurate about three consecutive rumors of event date, including a Act of November 17, an act of March 16thand a March 23 event (except for a last-minute announcement).
What about the rest of March?
With Gurman and Kuo indicating that new iPads are unlikely to be announced until at least April, and Kuo recently stated that mass production of third-generation AirPods is scheduled for the second half of 2021, the list of new Apple products that could be introduced in March is starting to shrink.
Still, a new “Elements” tab enabled by default in the Find Mine app from iOS 14.5 beta has given hope that Apple’s long-awaited followers of AirTags articles will finally launch soon. Apple said iOS 14.5 will be released in “early spring,” but a specific release date is not yet clear. If the Release Candidate version is just scheduled for next week, then iOS 14.5 could be released around Monday, March 29th or Tuesday, March 30th.
Apple could choose to introduce AirTags and / or other new products with press releases, as it did last spring, including the updated iPad Pro and MacBook Air models on March 18 and the second-generation iPhone SE on March 15. of April.
At the very least, this week’s Gurman report said AirTags is still “scheduled for this year”.
All in all, while there have been rumors all over the map lately, there seems to be enough smoke to suggest that at least some new products will be announced in the next six weeks or so. It remains to be seen whether any of the product announcements arrive in the last days of March or April, or at an event or not.