Instead, we got an Apple statement declaring that there was no 27-inch iMac in development! Ouch. Sadly, I missed my guess that the new iMac would have new colors, and I utterly failed in my prediction that there would be a larger “iMac Pro” model. In other Mac news, I correctly guessed that the newest Mac model would be a 15-inch variation on the MacBook Air and that the iMac would get an update. I’m pretty sure Apple is working on a new, cutting-edge external display with extended dynamic range, but it certainly did happen in 2023, much to my chagrin. Apple displays are never late–like wizards, they always arrive precisely when they intend to. One of the first rules of predictions is never, ever predict a new Apple display. Unfortunately, all this talk of a new Mac Pro made me positively giddy. Yep, that happened–and better yet, I described the Mac Pro as being more like “a really, really big Mac Studio,” which is exactly what it turned out to be. The other Intel Mac that was still kicking around was the Mac Pro, and I predicted that it would also be replaced by an Apple silicon model, thereby closing the books on the Apple silicon transition. I correctly predicted that the M2 Mac mini would rectify matters by shipping with both an M2 chip and an M2 Pro chip, blowing Intel off the price list. ![]() But that’s what happened, thanks to the early arrival of the M3 chip.Īpple issued not one but two MacBook Pro updates in 2023.FoundryĪ year ago, Apple still had an Intel-based Mac mini on its price list because it had only replaced the low-end model with a low-end M1 chip. The question is, should I get double points for this prediction? The answer is no because I don’t think anyone predicted that Apple would update the MacBook Pro twice in a single calendar year. Reading the tea leaves (and various news reports), I correctly anticipated that new MacBook Pros would arrive bearing new Apple silicon processors. ![]() I’m going to say that I got more right than I got wrong, but I had hoped that 2023 would be a bit more earth-shaking than it turned out to be. Last year I “predicted” the future in not one but two different articles. ![]() (Be honest: how many pundits call attention to their prior year’s punditry?) And just to be fair, every year in this space, I also grade my past predictions. Next year, the Vision Pro will arrive, Apple will reportedly unleash new operating systems powered by next-generation AI, and the entire iPad product line will probably get updated.Įvery year in this space, I try to predict what will happen during the next year. Apple had a quiet 2023–but it could be the calm before the stormĪnother trip around the sun, and for Apple, this year felt like the calm before the storm.
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