Apple is alleged to be holding an event to announce the brand new iPhone 16 on September tenth (local time). It would even be interesting to see whether the corporate will announce its Siri partnership with Google at this event.
Bloomberg reported on the twenty fourth, citing a well-informed source, that Apple will hold an event on that day and unveil latest products similar to the iPhone, smartwatch, and AirPods. Last 12 months, the event was held on September twelfth.
In accordance with this, the timing has not been announced yet, but Apple is alleged to be preparing for that date.
Also, considering the pattern of the past few years, the brand new product is more likely to be released on September 20, ten days after the announcement.
In relation to AI, Apple already made quite a lot of announcements related to ‘Apple Intelligence’ on the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last June, so plainly there shall be nothing special so as to add.
Nevertheless, it’ll be interesting to see whether a partnership with Google shall be announced. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice chairman of software engineering, said at WWDC that Siri shall be equipped with a wide range of large language models (LLMs) and that negotiations with Google will proceed.
Along with this, it is thought that Anthropic’s ‘Claude’ and AI search engine Perplexity are also discussing introducing services.
Meanwhile, Apple is reported to have predicted that the iPhone 16, which shall be released this time, will sell 90 million units, a ten% increase from last 12 months’s iPhone 15. That is an expectation that Apple’s intelligence will generate demand.
Nevertheless, the total introduction of AI functions is anticipated to be delayed from the unique expectations, and shall be possible early next 12 months. AI functions shall be almost non-existent immediately after the discharge on September 20, and AI functions shall be regularly added through software updates starting in October. A lot of the predictions are that we are going to must wait until next spring for the updates to be accomplished.
Nevertheless, Siri, which integrates ‘ChatGPT’, shall be launched first in English within the US inside the 12 months, and shall be expanded to other languages and countries starting next 12 months. It is anticipated that it’ll take greater than two years to integrate all languages.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 16 to be released this time is alleged to have a bigger screen and a dedicated button for taking pictures, however it isn’t much different from the previous model.
It is usually known that the newly released MacBook shall be equipped with the newest chip, ‘M4’.
Reporter Im Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com
