Could the New, Sixth-Generation Apple TV Be Coming Tomorrow? – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)
We’ve been hearing rumours of an Apple “Christmas Surprise” since last month, and while we weren’t quite sure originally what to make of those, they seemed to solidify last week when reports surfaced of a mysterious new product launch scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Since Apple still has a lot of rumoured-but-not-yet-announced products in its portfolio, it opens up quite a lot of room for speculation. Among the more exciting possibilities are AirTags or AirPods Studio, both of which have clearly been in development now for years, but there’s also quite a lot of room for the mundane, such as the likelihood of an Intel 16-inch MacBook Pro.
In fact, as boring as it may be, from a purely pragmatic point of view, it’s the 16-inch MacBook Pro that strikes us as the most likely possibility, since an Apple Silicon equipped version of the larger model could still be up to a year away, and meanwhile, it’s been languishing behind its smaller siblings as the only Pro-level Mac still equipped with a mere 9th-gen Intel CPU. Plus, we’ve already seen a leaked reference to it in Apple’s own Boot Camp utility.
That said, there’s no reason that Apple couldn’t release more than one product, and now a new set of rumours is pointing to the dark horse in this race: Apple’s diminutive Apple TV set-top box.
While AirTags and AirPods Studio are exciting new products, it’s hard to believe that Apple would debut those without giving them some stage time. While that might be the case for the AirPods Studio on-ear headphones, since Apple even pushed out the AirPods Pro last year with nothing more than a press release, we’d be shocked if Apple did that for a genre-defining product like the AirTags.
On the other hand, the Apple TV is now one of the oldest products that Apple is still selling, with the current model, the Apple TV 4K, having been released over three years ago, in the fall of 2017, and the older Apple TV HD model being of a 2015 vintage.
To put this in perspective, the Apple TV 4K was released the same year as the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, and beat the original HomePod out by about five months (while Apple announced the Home in June of 2017, it wasn’t available until the following February).
So in other words, since the Apple TV was last updated, we’ve seen at least five new generations of iPhone models, four generations of iPads, two generations of iPad Pro, and the rise and continued development of the whole new iPad Air lineup.
We’ve also seen the advent of Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ — two services that we were sure would have heralded the arrival of a new Apple TV last year, but clearly Apple had other things on its plate and decided that the A10X-equipped Apple TV 4K was good enough for the time being.
However, this year it’s more clear than ever that the set-top box is…
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