Not all who wonder are lust. Some of us will be forming an orderly queue in the holding room at One Apple Park Way on Tuesday morning. At 10 AM PT on September 12, Tim Cook and co. will be back at it, showcasing the latest gear ahead of the big holiday push.
There are two things we can confidently tell you will be on display at the big Apple event: the iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9. There are some things in this world you can really set your smartwatch to. There have been rumors galore, of course. For one thing, a few members of the AirPods family are starting to get long in the tooth.
Macs are a perpetual possibility as well. I think I also speak for most of us when I say that it would be nice to get a little more face time with the Vision Pro headset that stole the show at WWDC, back in June.
What follows is a mix of what we know, what we think we know and what we’re straight up wildly speculating about.
iPhone 15
The clear marquee announcement this time out. What’s perhaps most interesting about the iPhone 15 is that Apple had its hand forced here. It’s not like anyone in the big glass spaceship was champing at the bit to adopt USB-C (or Thunderbolt 3 or whatever you want to call it). You can thank EU regulators for that one. Last year, the European Parliament voted to standardize ports across devices.
Now, technically, those regulators gave manufacturers until the end of 2024 to implement the tech across devices, but all signs point to Apple pulling off the Band-Aid for the iPhone 15. Among other things, more regional governing bodies are poised to follow the EU’s lead here for consumer advocacy and e-waste related reasons.