OPINION : Apple is set to debut multiple raw products the week , headlined by update to its iPhone and Apple Watch lines .
It depend like we ’ll see a couple ofiPhone 14models uncover at the‘Far Out’event taking spot on Wednesday ( September 7 ) , another duo of iPhone 14 Pros , possiblythreeversions of the Apple Watch and maybe the long - awaitedAirPods Pro 2 .
As has become commonplace in the calendar week , and month , before a big Apple event , the on-line rumour milling machinery heads into overdrive . That ’s for sure been the lawsuit this twelvemonth . We ’ve heard that Apple is possibly design on reducing the size of it of the notch , popping a different A - series chipset in the cheap phones and upping the megapixel count on the Pro phones for the very first sentence . Apple could also return to its ‘ Plus ’ branding for a larger speech sound , for the first meter in a while .
When it comes to the Apple Watch , on-line reputation suggest we ’ll see anApple Watch Pro – a tough , large wearable primed to take on thebest Garmin watchesalong with a cheaper update to the Apple Watch SE .
Is this the end for the iPhone Mini?
That ’s a lot to take in and , of course , until Tim Cook take the stage we wo n’t live for certain which of these leaks turn out to be true .
One particular rumour has stood out more than the others to me though , and that ’s the fate of the iPhone 14 Mini .
Even before the iPhone 13 Mini was announced 12 calendar month ago , leaks had paint a picture it would be the final entry in the curtly - live series . And in the streamlet - up to the iPhone 14 ’s release , the speculation has only grow louder that Apple would n’t be replace its dinky 5.4 - inch screenland - toting handset .
Mark Gurman , a typically very dependable Apple newsman forBloomberg , wrote earlier this hebdomad that Apple would not be releasing an iPhone 14 Mini . “ But , as I ’ve cover exhaustively , there will be no iPhone 14 mini to deliver the goods the iPhone 13 mini . Instead , Apple is focus on large devices . ” Gurman said .
Apple is n’t plainly trench the Mini without a alternate , though . Rather than move small , story ( including Gurman ’s linked above ) suggest Apple will plunge an iPhone 14 Plus ( or peradventure Max ) – a larger version of its base iPhone 14 with a screen door cope with the iPhone 14 Pro Max . This clearly feels that Apple thinks there ’s more of a market for a more affordable , larger gadget rather than a smaller one .
As much as I have care the Mini iPhones , I have to agree that I can see a cheaper , swelled iPhone 14 being more of a succeeder . Bigger headphone are everywhere , and the iPhone 14 itself will in all likelihood be little than much of the Android contest . There ’s always been an obvious spread in Apple ’s headphone stock , and that ’s a big phone with a price - rag under £ 1000/$1000 .
That ’s not to say theiPhone 12 Miniand theiPhone 13 Minihaven’t been welcome . I have brush up both devices and scored them extremely . Apple ’s focus on bringing pretty much every characteristic in the larger twist to the small one had to be commended and I am trusted there will be quite a few disappointed citizenry when the news of the series ’ dying is made official on Wednesday .
