All in all, Apple’s Glowtime event earlier this month was mildly disappointing. The new iPhones are yet another cautious iteration on a product with nowhere interesting left to go; the new AirPods didn’t do the one thing we were all excited about (dropping the price below $100); the ‘updated’ AirPods Max are a bad joke; and the rumored iPad mini didn’t appear at all. I will admit that I like the look of the redesigned Apple Watch, but it remains a comparatively niche product and I’m not convinced its changes will make a huge difference to the user experience anyway.
But that’s okay, because Apple has never felt it necessary to space out its launch events in a sensible fashion. We get one event most springs; we get one event (WWDC) each summer; and in the fall, we get anywhere from one to a frankly insane three. And most pundits reckon another Apple event, and a chance for the company to make amends for the tedium of September, will happen as soon as next month.
The main reason for that expectation is the fact that loads of rumored products still need to be announced. The aforementioned iPad mini, of course (plus likely the 11th-gen iPad), but also new versions of several important Mac lines. And the one that could turn the October event into a genuine extravaganza—the kind of extravaganza that Glowtime was not—is the new Mac mini.
Read more at Macworld.com