Apple Reportedly Plans to Unveil at Least Five New Products Next Week

At these in-person gatherings, the expectation is that attendees will receive hands-on time with the new products that Apple announces next week.

Do you mean the week after next?

No new Apple TV?

Apple has a backlog of new products coming, if you believe the rumors it's almost 20 things in the works. They are advertising this as an "experience", so it seems like introducing a couple laptops, iPhone, and iPad wouldn't really cross that threshold. To me, it sound more like they want to get people onboard with "The Apple Experience", and considering how they are planning a push into the home with some new products that should be part of any Apple experience.

So, I'm going to predict that they push a bit farther into the rumored products and show what an integrated home life with Apple would be like. Get up in the morning and the new Apple home base chats with you about your schedule, the weather, reminders, etc. Then, drive to work with CarPlay, work on your laptop and iPad, a gym visit with AirPods and Apple Watch, go home to dinner with the family and a movie with AppleTV (or the Vision if you're a wealthy loner), and off to bed with your Apple Watch monitoring your sleep. All assisted by Siri seamlessly through all your products, as an actually useful assistant.

Apple has all these pieces, but it's not clear it has the vision to put it all together as a cohesive whole, or demonstrate it so completely. A lot of us have cobbled together something akin to this, but Apple in theory has the capability to put together the whole package, and this would be a way to demonstrate that (including showing new products that are coming like the rumored doorbell). That's what "The Apple Experience" really should be...if it's just a few product announcements that they could have done with a press release and demos at the Apple Store it will be a bit disappointing.

Do you mean the week after next?

apparent in 'merica some of the start the week on a sunday for some unknown reason. (related note, MM-DD-YYYY is a mental way of writing a date, instead of magnitude order )

Five new emojis?

Apple has a backlog of new products coming, if you believe the rumors it's almost 20 things in the works. They are advertising this as an "experience", so it seems like introducing a couple laptops, iPhone, and iPad wouldn't really cross that threshold. To me, it sound more like they want to get people onboard with "The Apple Experience", and considering how they are planning a push into the home with some new products that should be part of any Apple experience.

So, I'm going to predict that they push a bit farther into the rumored products and show what an integrated home life with Apple would be like. Get up in the morning and the new Apple home base chats with you about your schedule, the weather, reminders, etc. Then, drive to work with CarPlay, work on your laptop and iPad, a gym visit with AirPods and Apple Watch, go home to dinner with the family and a movie with AppleTV (or the Vision if you're a wealthy loner), and off to bed with your Apple Watch monitoring your sleep. All assisted by Siri seamlessly through all your products, as an actually useful assistant.

Apple has all these pieces, but it's not clear it has the vision to put it all together as a cohesive whole, or demonstrate it so completely. A lot of us have cobbled together something akin to this, but Apple in theory has the capability to put together the whole package, and this would be a way to demonstrate that (including showing new products that are coming like the rumored doorbell). That's what "The Apple Experience" really should be...if it's just a few product announcements that they could have done with a press release and demos at the Apple Store it will be a bit disappointing.

Yawn. Apple has been advertising this sort of Apple lifestyle for years now. I don't care what Apple promises. So much of the actual "Apple Experience" is clunky and mediocre these days. Why on earth would anyone want a home hub to chat about schedule and reminders when you can just open your iPhone or Mac or iPad and take a look? What's the point? And Siri? It's total garbage. Without MAJOR improvements, who cares?

The reality is, Apple products and services have gotten very stale. Sure, they're still very good, but there's nothing interesting coming out of Cupertino. They're playing catch-up at best when it comes to the "smart home" and I don't expect to see anything revolutionary from them in this area, or any other area really.