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For Apple fans, thing rouses excitement rather for illustration an unveiling event.
Now nan tech elephantine is gearing up to big its first 1 of nan twelvemonth – and it's taking spot successful little than 2 weeks.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has posted a cryptic animated teaser for nan event, which he confirmed will beryllium streamed online connected May 7.
The animation features nan Apple logo being drawn successful a assortment of agleam colours and creator styles, including 1 pinch a manus holding a stylus.
The Apple leader besides told his X followers to 'pencil america in', alluding to what nan institution has successful store.
The Apple leader besides told his X followers to 'pencil america in', alluding to what nan institution has successful store. The arena will beryllium streamed online connected Apple TV and Apple's website from 10am Eastern Time (3pm BST) connected May 7
Apple's website besides features an abridged type of nan animation and confirms further specifications astir nan event.
It will beryllium streamed online connected Apple TV and Apple's website from 10am Eastern Time (3pm BST) connected May 7.
Although nan institution hasn't confirmed what caller products will beryllium announced, rumours are furiously circulating online.
According to Apple tipster Mark Gurman, nan institution is astir to unveil respective caller iPads, including a Pro pinch a 'snazzy caller OLED screen'.
OLED screens – which supply amended image value – person been fitted connected iPhones since 2017 but not connected iPads.
This is corroborated by MacRumors, which reports that 2 iPad Pro models pinch OLED and 2 iPad Air models will beryllium announced.
They would beryllium nan first caller iPads since 2022 and people nan longest hold for caller iPads successful nan company's history.
There will besides beryllium an Apple Pencil pinch a compression motion for definite actions and a new Magic Keyboard (Apple's statement of wireless machine keyboards), MacRumors adds.
Apple's website besides features an abridged type of nan animation - showing a user's manus holding a pencil
Apple hasn't released caller iPads since 2022. Pictured, the sixth-generation iPad Pro released successful October 2022
Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured) besides precocious teased a large AI announcement - but it's unclear if this will travel connected May 7
Apple has been contacted for comment, though nan tech elephantine is notoriously tight-lipped successful nan run-up to merchandise releases.
It is said to beryllium moving connected astatine slightest 2 caller smartphones, though they're not expected to beryllium revealed astatine adjacent month's event.
The first – nan iPhone 16 – should beryllium unveiled towards nan commencement of September and could characteristic a caller 'Capture Button'.
With a azygous press, nan Capture Button will return photos and commencement video clips and will connection users an replacement to tapping distant astatine nan screen.
The 2nd caller telephone will allegedly beryllium the iPhone SE 4, nan latest successful Apple's 'budget' SE line, expected to beryllium released successful outpouring 2025.
Leaked renders propose will person a 6.1-inch display, a USB-C charging port, and a azygous superior camera astatine nan back.
Shortly aft May's arena is Apple's yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), from June 10-14, though this will attraction connected caller package alternatively than hardware.
Apple usually has 2 aliases 3 merchandise releases per year, though nan 1 successful nan autumn is erstwhile nan adjacent flagship iPhone is revealed
Apple leader Tim Cook has besides teased a 'huge' AI announcement that's coming 'later this year' – perchance a merchandise akin to ChatGPT.
Speaking connected Apple's quarterly net study astatine nan commencement of February, he said: 'As we look ahead, we will proceed to put successful these and different technologies that will style nan future.
'That includes artificial intelligence, wherever we proceed to walk a tremendous magnitude of clip and effort.
'We’re excited to stock nan specifications of our ongoing activity successful that abstraction later this year.'
Social media mocks Apple arsenic it scraps its autonomous electrical car plans aft a decade of activity - arsenic 1 personification jokes 'they realised it would require Windows!'
Despite spending billions of dollars connected nan task successful nan past 10 years, Apple has scrapped efforts to build its ain self-driving electrical car.
Social media users person been mercilessly mocking nan tech giant, which is reportedly group to occurrence labor who worked connected nan eager scheme.
Taking to X, 1 joked that Apple cancelled nan car 'after realizing it would require windows', successful a motion to nan package from rival tech patient Microsoft.
Another personification said that nan 'charging solution proved a spot inconvenient' pinch a changeable of an upside-down car pinch a charger plugged into it.
Yet different posted an image of nan 'original Apple car' – driven by Lowly Worm nan fictional earthworm from nan classical 1960s children's books.
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