The latest rumors and leaks give us some clues about what Apple might announce.
Earlier this week, Apple sent out invitations sporting the tagline ‘Spring Loaded” and teasing an online event streaming at 10 am PT on Tuesday, April 20. We had all but given up on a spring event, so the invitation was something of a surprise. But now that we know it’s coming, what might we see at this event? Here’s everything we expect, hope, and really want to see.
Nearly certain
iPad Pro
The iPad Pro hasn’t gotten a real update since 2018. Yeah, there was a minor refresh in 2020 that added LiDAR, an UltraWide camera, and the A12Z processor (which is just the A12X with an extra GPU core enabled), along with the Magic Keyboard and full-on trackpad support, but a real upgrade for the iPad Pro is long overdue, and it’s the most likely product to be unveiled at this event.
Fingers crossed
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said in an interview Friday that the Spring Loaded event will be mostly “iterative, basic stuff,” with one possible exception: the iMac. Gurman’s sources haven’t ruled it out and he admits that “if the iMac does indeed get launched next week, that’s gonna be a big deal.” It’s been about a year since we started hearing about a radical new iMacs in the works, and the spring event could be the perfect time to unveil it. Rumors haven’t discounted it arriving at this event, and it’s the only product we’ve heard about that has any potential wow factor. We’re nearly certain that an updated iMac with a bigger screen and a whole new design language is on the way, and the latest macOS 11.3 beta includes potential references to them. It might be a little too early in the year, but Apple has several Macs to launch this year—not to mention updates to the existing M1 Macs—so it can’t release all of them at WWDC. Plus, there might be a clue hiding in the event invite—so you never know.
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