The Apple Watch Series 10 was unveiled at the company’s It’s Time event on September 9, but Apple didn’t release a successor to last year’s Watch Ultra 2. This is in line with the forecast of TF Securities International analyst Ming-Chi Guo. , which accurately predicted last October that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 would be released in 2024 at the earliest. Similarly, the company has yet to update its Apple Watch SE model. An analyst has now suggested a launch schedule for this smartwatch.
On X (formerly Twitter), Kuo says the Cupertino company will release the Apple Watch Ultra 3 in 2025. The Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) is updated three years after the release of the current generation model. According to the researcher.
1. Apple Watch Ultra 3沒有在今年的新產品發佈會出現，這與我約一年前的預測相符。
2. 2025年新款Apple Watch將包括Ultra 3與SE升級版。—
1. Apple Watch Ultra 3 was absent from this year’s media event, which is in line with my prediction from about a year ago.
2. The 2025 new Apple… https://t.co/j457raXTgf— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) September 10, 2024
If Kuo’s latest claim is true, we can expect both the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and third-generation Apple Watch SE to launch in the third quarter of 2025, when the company typically releases new smartwatches and smartphones. These could launch alongside the iPhone 17 series, which is expected to be the successor to Apple’s iPhone 16 series.
In October 2023, analysts predicted that Apple would not release a successor to the Watch Ultra 2 model as development of the new model had not yet begun. Bloomberg’s Mark Garman also revised his prediction hours before Monday’s announcement, claiming that Apple would only release new color variants of the Ultra 2 Watch.
At the time, Kuo said that if a new Apple Watch Ultra model is not released in 2024, shipments of the flagship watch could decline by up to 30 percent compared to last year, for a total of 10 percent. Monitoring shipments
That means the Apple Watch Series 10 is expected to be the only improved smartwatch model Apple offers in 2024. Additionally, the company is expected to host an event in October for the new Mac Mini, iMac and MacBook Pro models. Equipped with the company’s M4 chip.
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