That lack of last minute decision making can probably be applied to far more Apple
products than rumors would have us believe.
Not exact matches
While both of these scenarios are still just
rumors, the fact the president of Audi North America is talking about the subject with more
than some «we don't talk about future
products» garble is promising.
As a result, Amazon would seem to have less room for error
than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin
products to sell in the form of accessories, the
rumored mix of Kindle devices and physical books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when prices for Kindles are so low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going lower.
Perhaps more
than any other
product the company has produced, the
rumored tablet will need an ecosystem of compelling content to convince people they want to buy this device.
More
rumors have emerged hinting that it will be closer to United's Economy Plus
product rather
than a separate cabin with individual service — with more leg room, but no different
than the rest of the economy cabin.
Free licenses might not bring in revenue directly, but getting the
product in circulation, getting the broader legal community familiar with it, and starting to generate buzz based on actual use, rather
than beta tests and
rumors, is crucial to Next's success.
Ahead of Apple's pro display news, there were
rumors suggesting Apple was working on a next - generation display powered by an integrated GPU, but it's not clear if that information is still accurate given Apple's work on a revamped Mac Pro, nor is it clear if that display
product is a different
than the display meant to accompany the Mac Pro.
Less
than two months after Bose saw its
products ignominiously booted from Apple's physical and online stores,
rumors are suggesting a triumphant return for Bose's high - end audio equipment, now the two firms have finished squabbling.
Both are based on Nvidia's previous - generation «Pascal» design, and the new leaked Inno3D card could serve as a high - end Pascal - based
product that will be cheaper
than Nvidia's
rumored «Turing» cards for miners arriving this year.
Apple doesn't typically like to leave more
than a week between a hot new
product's announcement and actual launch date, so it was enough to see the company's hottest iPhone in ages officially slated for an October 27 pre-order start way back on September 11 to understand its widely
rumored production troubles were real and serious.
To go along with the AirPods and the HomePod, Apple is
rumored to be working on a set of high - end over-ear headphones that, like its other two
products, will be Apple branded rather
than Beats branded.The
rumor originated in a February report from KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo, who often accurately predicts Apple's plans.
«We believe the
rumored iWatch will be Apple's most important
product this year, carrying much more weight
than iPhone 6, as market feedback for the
product should reveal whether Apple still has the ability to continue making game - changing
products with Tim Cook at the helm,» Kuo has previously said.
Somehow, the
rumored 83 percent screen - to - body ratio of the Huawei Mate 10 Lite looks less impressive
than the standard Mate 10's seemingly slimmer bezels translated into real - world
product images, with an obvious difference in fingerprint sensor placement.
No matter how many months of
rumors and insider reports precede an anticipated Apple announcement, it's probable that, when Steve Jobs actually reveals the
product on stage, it's going to be radically different
than what people are expecting... but iCloud could be the most radical deviation yet between the fancy of pre-announcement hype and the reality of Apple's finished
product.