Apple officially announced the new MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips yesterday. According to Apple’s website, the new Mac products, with the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, were originally planned for release in October or November of last year.
Apple released a short video following the launch of the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini that included the word 2022 in the filename, suggesting that the video may have originally been scheduled to premiere last year.
Some speculate that the 18-minute video was taken from a major event Apple plans to hold in October or November 2022 that will include not only the new M2 Pro and M2 Max Mac products, but other new products as well. In addition, AR files of the new MacBook Pro were created in October 2022.
Apple generally hosts an event in September each fall to announce its latest iPhone and Apple Watch. In the run-up to fall 2022, a growing number of rumors suggest that Apple plans to hold two events between September and December: one for the iPhone and Apple Watch, and another for the Mac and iPad.
However, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman later claimed that Apple canceled its plans for a second fall event and instead released the remainder of its 2022 products via a press release on its website. We’ll see what happens after that, as in October 2022, Apple announced an iPad Pro with an M2 chip and a redesigned 10th-generation entry-level iPad via a press release.
Now it appears that the Mac and iPad launches for the second half of 2022 have indeed been canceled and the products are being split up for press releases.
