![]() I’m thinking this year the new models (128 GB) will be priced like this: Last year the iPhones started at these prices (128 GB): Skips right over “Pro” and goes right to “big ass and more expensive”, sort of like AirPods Max except AirPods Max aren’t something you’d wear while climbing a mountain. Oh, how about “Apple Watch Max”? That works for me. “Pro” carries a connotation of superiority, so I can’t quite see Apple using that name for a bigger, chunkier, decidedly un-luxurious model. Perhaps Apple will eliminate the titanium Edition models from the lineup, but from what I understand, the Hermès partnership has been very successful. Last year’s Series 7 Edition models, made from titanium, cost $800/850 for the 41/45 mm sizes respectively, and the Hermès models start at $1,250. Apple Watch Extreme? Apple Watch Sport (which would hark back to the Series 0 lineup, where the aluminum models were called “Sport”)? I just don’t think “Pro” quite fits for a lineup where there already exist premium-priced models. If this model is as big and chunky as these leaked CAD renderings indicate, I’d expect a name that implies ruggedness/sportiness, and I don’t think “Pro” does that. ![]() I’m not sure that works for a more rugged/extreme Apple Watch, though. Are AirPods Pro more professional than regular AirPods? No, but they’re more pro in Apple parlance, because they’re nicer. I can hear it, because sometimes when Apple describes a product as “pro”, they really just mean “nicer in some ways”, not necessarily “better suited for professional usage”. This one doesn’t ring as true to my ears. On the Apple Watch front, Mark Gurman has been reporting for a long time that Apple is poised to release a new model (or models?) targeting the market for extra durability for sports and fitness, and has been speculating since July that it might be named “Apple Watch Pro”. Thus, I think “Plus” fits perfectly for the 6.7-inch non-Pro iPhone 14 models. Max means something akin to “even more Pro than Pro”, like with the M1 Max chips. Max, in Apple parlance, seems to mean more than just bigger - it implies a certain premium-priced technical sophistication as well. This rings true to my Apple-marketing-attuned ears. On the non-Pro side, one late-breaking rumor claims the big-screen model will be named iPhone 14 Plus, not “Max”. The Pro models, presumably, will be named iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. So: two 6.1-inch new iPhones (regular and Pro), and two 6.7-inch new iPhones (regular and Pro). The long-rumored lineup of iPhone 14 models is that the Mini is out of the lineup, and replacing it is a big-screened non-Pro model. It was pretty fun that so much hadn’t leaked about yesterday’s news, and the Dynamic Island is at the top of that list.Ī Quick Run-Through of Rumors and Speculation Ahead of This Wednesday’s ‘Far Out’ Event for the iPhones 14, New Apple Watch Models, and Who Knows What Else Tuesday, 6 September 2022 Name Games That was the first cut at this sort of interface theĬompany’s had half a decade to think about its next move.) Since the iPhone X introduced the stable peninsula that we call Size of its sensor cutouts as an opportunity to redesign a big Missed the bigger picture, which is that Apple took the reduced Leaks from inside Cupertino are a lot harder to come by. The iPhone 14 Pro models was absolutely right - and yet couldn’t Limits of rumors emerging from Apple’s hardware supply chain.Įveryone who reported on the size and shape of the new cutouts on Which brings us to the Dynamic Island, a stark reminder about the Jason Snell: ‘Underestimating Apple’s Bold Moves’ ★ That price stayed the same, which means the price is lower. Way, those foreign prices are derived from the U.S. On the dollar, which is the strongest in years to put it another World, but this is better explained by the fact the company runs Apple did, to be sure, raises prices around the What this means is that in real terms Apple’s products actually Importantly, the last year has seen a big increase in inflation. The most surprising announcement of all, though, were the prices.Įverything stayed the same! This was not what I, or closeįollowers of Apple like John Gruber, expected at all.Īfter all, Apple’s strategy the past several years seemed to beįocused on wringing more revenue out of existing customers. This new site, launched by Jobs’s family and friends, is just lovely.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |