Before entering fully into this post, in this publication we are not going to highlight the launch of the new iPhone, Apple Watch series
Vision Pro in January
Kuo, in a publication in Mediumhas highlighted extremely interesting information in the Android market, but has also hosted data about everything that the firm chaired by Tim Cook will launch during the next course.
According to this leaker's estimate, the Vision Pro is expected to arrive in stores in the United States at the end of January or beginning of February, with the aim of selling 500,000 units throughout the current year. Half a million units for a product as revolutionary as the Vision Pro, I highly doubt there will still be units left at the end of March or beginning of April.
This launch date is linked to Mark Gurman's report, where he also states the possibility of this generation being launched during the first quarter of 2024.
Another aspect that is interesting to highlight is the number of units available, since there are only 500,000 units. However, when you carefully analyze this number, there are more than 150,000 units than those planned by Apple and Sony on the day of its presentation in June 2023. At first, Sony indicated that it could only produce 350,000 lenses and has managed to increase its numbers up to half a thousand. It may be a small increase, but for a product that has to corner the entire world market, it is a small but constant jump.
New Macs at the end of 2024
Kuo has also reported that he expects a new Keynote in the last quarter of 2024 after the presentation of the iPhone 16 and the WWDC that takes place in June. In this Keynote, it seems that Apple will present the renewal of the Mac mini and the MacBook Air, integrating the third generation Apple Silicon. This situation is very interesting, since it could give rise to a new scale or phase of Silicon renewal in two-year cycles. One year for the M3 Pro and Pro Max version and one year for the standard versions. In this way, Apple there would be no need to update the entire range in the same year.
It remains to be seen when the Mac Studio and the Mac Proalthough it is quite possible that this will take place in June 2024, at the developer conference.
In conclusion, it is still striking that a leaker of Kuo's status has not made reference to the new iPads, which shows the tremendous mess that Apple has with this segment. Apple does not want to launch the same decaffeinated renewal as every year, but it also does not want to launch a generation that cannibalizes the entry-level Macs.