Prediction: By Innovation Only — MacMeiCloud

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Design in Design Innovation | 0 Comments

New Software
iOS 13/ iPadOS 13/ tvOS 13/ watchOS 6/ macOS Catalina 10.15

Apple has been hard at word with multiple beta builds of their new iPhone, iPad, TV, Watch, and Mac software. We should see all of the above software come out of beta within a week or so from the time of this announcement.

Services
Apple Arcade/ Apple TV+/  Card

I’m sure the team at Apple will give us an update on the huge adoption of the  Credit Card, give a more definitive launch date for Apple Arcade subscription service, as well as when we can expect Apple TV+.

Apple Watch

It was discovered in the beta code of watchOS 6 that there were two new watch faces of ceramic and titanium. Since Apple Watch series 4 is such a great model we might only see these two casing additions added to the lineup and large refresh of  Watch launch next year. If Apple did launch a brand new series 5 version of their Watch I’d expect to see more health features enabled, sleep tracking, as well as battery life improvements. Let’s not be too fooled with “sleeping tracking” though. Apple never enters the game until they believe they can do it better and up to their standards. I expect this feature in particular to be not only cool, but driven and backed by the health care professionals.

New iPhone
iPhone 11/ 11 +/ Pro

This will be the main focus of the event. A fun thing about Apple is that they always drop a hint in their Press Invite graphic as to what will be announced on stage. The colors of the Apple graphic completely correlate to the old iMac “Yum” campaign that launched in 1999. I own this poster and have it in my home office. Yum was an amazing campaign at a time when Apple was leading the charge in making technology approachable to everyone. They came out with the colored iMac in Blueberry, Grape, Tangerine, Lime and Strawberry. Quite interesting that we they chose those exact same 5 colors for this graphic. Expect the iPhone XR replacement to offer the colors below. Also I expect iPhone 11 and 11 + to be phones that are industry leaders and evolution to iPhone XS and XS Max. Expect the new iPhone to pre-order on Friday, Sept 13th and ship the following Friday, September 20th.

One prediction I will make is a smaller footprint on the devices for FaceID, as well as FaceID to authenticate in landscape mode like the latest 2018 iPad Pro can do.