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Major Apple Product Announcement Set for Wednesday, Jan. 27

18 points by MikeCapone 17y ago

jcnnghm 17y ago
If they're announcing the tablet in January, I wonder what kind of release date they're looking at. Does anyone know what the average announce to release cycle is for Apple products?
- seiji 17y ago
  The original iPhone timeline was a January announcement with an end of June release.
  - snprbob86 17y ago
    Although, the iPhone had significant external schedule factors which pushed an announcement: FCC, AT&T, etc. Unless this device can connect to a cell network, I don't see why they wouldn't pull one of their patented "And it is available.... right now!" things.
    - DavidSJ 17y ago
      The final stages of bringing the product to market may require greatly expanding the circle of those who are "in the know", making preserving secrecy more difficult. Steve wants to control the revelation, not some leak to do it.
    - xsmasher 17y ago
      I doubt it; content and software would not be ready in time. The iPhone SDK had a six-month public seed time for devs to create their apps for the opening of the iTunes app store, but there's been no public SDK for the tablet yet. It'll be announced now, out in June.
      - pstinnett 17y ago
        The iPhone wasn't released with an SDK or App store though. While I think it would be unlikely for Apple to launch a tablet / new mobile product that doesn't have an app store, it wouldn't be the first time.
    - seanl 17y ago
      One key reason for the usual 'right now' availability is to avoid cannibalizing sales of existing products. They were happy to pre-announce the iPhone because there were no existing Apple phones. Arguably the tablet can also be pre-announced for the same reason (although one could also make an argument in the other direction viz the MacBooks)
- spicyj 17y ago
  Many rumors have suggested a March release.
tialys 17y ago
Can anyone confirm that this is actually going to happen? I keep seeing 'rumors confirmed!' but no one has shown an invitation or any actual confirmation from Apple. For all we know they may be reserving that convention center for a company retreat!
- madh 17y ago
  Exactly! I refuse to believe until it is real.
- revetkn 17y ago
  It's not an official confirmation, but FWIW the WSJ is reporting that Apple "will unveil a new multimedia tablet device later this month", citing "people briefed by [Apple]" - see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638630584151614.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870358090457463...
- potatolicious 17y ago
  Having been through the Apple rumor cycle more times than I'd like to admit, this is most likely real. The amount of leaks, the date-pegging, and the absolute lack of any look at the device suggests that this is happening, and directly matches the iPhone launch.
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rdl 17y ago
I guess I'm alone in hoping for a Nehalem-based Macbook Pro revision (I really want a 17" WUXGA MBP with an i7 CPU to replace a MBP 3,1 15")
- ugh 17y ago
  There will be new MacBook Pros at some point in the near future – but I think Apple is less and less inclined to give any such “boring” changes their own events. I think Apple has been moving away from situations where they are forced to present something – anything – (like Macworld) and will try to only use events for really new stuff. The two lone exceptions are the WWDC and the yearly iPod event. You might see simple spec changes in the WWDC keynote (probably only mentioned in passing), but I don’t think you will see them anywhere else. (Design changes might be something they would present at such an event. But since we just lived through the change to the Unibody design I don’t think we will see changes in the next one to two years. That would be unnecessary and stupid.)
Andys 17y ago
Intel just released new 32nm laptop CPUs with embedded GPU, so there'll probably be some new laptops with those chips.

18 points by MikeCapone 17y ago

If they're announcing the tablet in January, I wonder what kind of release date they're looking at. Does anyone know what the average announce to release cycle is for Apple products?

seiji 17y ago
The original iPhone timeline was a January announcement with an end of June release.
- snprbob86 17y ago
  Although, the iPhone had significant external schedule factors which pushed an announcement: FCC, AT&T, etc. Unless this device can connect to a cell network, I don't see why they wouldn't pull one of their patented "And it is available.... right now!" things.
  - DavidSJ 17y ago
    The final stages of bringing the product to market may require greatly expanding the circle of those who are "in the know", making preserving secrecy more difficult. Steve wants to control the revelation, not some leak to do it.
  - xsmasher 17y ago
    I doubt it; content and software would not be ready in time. The iPhone SDK had a six-month public seed time for devs to create their apps for the opening of the iTunes app store, but there's been no public SDK for the tablet yet. It'll be announced now, out in June.
    - pstinnett 17y ago
      The iPhone wasn't released with an SDK or App store though. While I think it would be unlikely for Apple to launch a tablet / new mobile product that doesn't have an app store, it wouldn't be the first time.
  - seanl 17y ago
    One key reason for the usual 'right now' availability is to avoid cannibalizing sales of existing products. They were happy to pre-announce the iPhone because there were no existing Apple phones. Arguably the tablet can also be pre-announced for the same reason (although one could also make an argument in the other direction viz the MacBooks)
spicyj 17y ago
Many rumors have suggested a March release.

tialys 17y ago

Can anyone confirm that this is actually going to happen? I keep seeing 'rumors confirmed!' but no one has shown an invitation or any actual confirmation from Apple. For all we know they may be reserving that convention center for a company retreat!

madh 17y ago
Exactly! I refuse to believe until it is real.
revetkn 17y ago
It's not an official confirmation, but FWIW the WSJ is reporting that Apple "will unveil a new multimedia tablet device later this month", citing "people briefed by [Apple]" - see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638630584151614.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870358090457463...
potatolicious 17y ago
Having been through the Apple rumor cycle more times than I'd like to admit, this is most likely real. The amount of leaks, the date-pegging, and the absolute lack of any look at the device suggests that this is happening, and directly matches the iPhone launch.

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rdl 17y ago

I guess I'm alone in hoping for a Nehalem-based Macbook Pro revision (I really want a 17" WUXGA MBP with an i7 CPU to replace a MBP 3,1 15")

ugh 17y ago
There will be new MacBook Pros at some point in the near future – but I think Apple is less and less inclined to give any such “boring” changes their own events. I think Apple has been moving away from situations where they are forced to present something – anything – (like Macworld) and will try to only use events for really new stuff. The two lone exceptions are the WWDC and the yearly iPod event. You might see simple spec changes in the WWDC keynote (probably only mentioned in passing), but I don’t think you will see them anywhere else. (Design changes might be something they would present at such an event. But since we just lived through the change to the Unibody design I don’t think we will see changes in the next one to two years. That would be unnecessary and stupid.)

Andys 17y ago

Intel just released new 32nm laptop CPUs with embedded GPU, so there'll probably be some new laptops with those chips.