November is here. A lack of an October event, history, and comments made by Luca Maestri and Tim Cook suggest strongly that Apple is sitting pat with its existing hardware lineup for the holiday season.
A report from DigiTimes on Thursday morning says that Apple is expected to “perform strongly” in the fourth calendar quarter. The venue, which has never been a good source for Apple’s specific product plans, also says in the same report that volume shipments of the 16-inch MacBook Pro are expected to begin in the fourth quarter.
DigiTimes also has said that the 16-inch MacBook Pro with a new keyboard was going to launch in October, and so did Ming-Chi Kuo. Now, DigiTimes is saying that the first unit with that new keyboard won’t arrive until 2020. Oops.
During Wednesday’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Maestri both repeated the maxim that Mac and iPad Pro sales dollars and the predictions for the holiday quarter were a “tough compare” because of the launch timing of of products in 2018 varying from 2019.
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