Power On<\/a> newsletter, Gurman made several points. <\/p>\n\u201cApple\u2019s September iPhone events tend to follow a familiar playbook: They\u2019re usually held on the first Tuesday or Wednesday after Labor Day, giving Apple enough time to get the new phones on sale by mid-September, lock in a couple of weeks of fourth-quarter revenue and stock the channel ahead of the holiday season,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Analyzing Apple’s Historical September Cadence<\/p>\n
The exact calendar date changes most years.<\/p>\n
Labor Day falls, as you know, on the first Monday of September and therefore must be between Sept. 1 and Sept. 7. So, you\u2019d have thought there would be some years when the keynote would be on Sept. 2 or Sept. 3, for instance. In fact, in the last 10 years the keynote has never been held earlier than Sept. 7, so Apple often holds the event in the week after Labor Day, not the day after.<\/p>\n
This year, Labor Day is the latest possible date, Monday, Sept. 7. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat cadence is carefully mapped out by Apple\u2019s marketing, finance and operations teams, and there\u2019s little reason to think this year will be any different,\u201d Gurman went on. I agree that this year will follow the regular schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith that in mind, the most likely date for the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and foldable iPhone is Sept. 8, with Sept. 9 as the runner-up. It\u2019s hard to see it landing anywhere else,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n
Why Tuesday, Sept. 8 Is A Non-Starter For iPhone 18 Pro<\/p>\n
Keynotes don\u2019t routinely fall the day after a public holiday.<\/p>\n
I think Gurman has the right week \u2014 it\u2019s still possible Apple could hold off until Monday, Sept. 14 if something went awry in production, for instance, but I think that\u2019s highly unlikely.<\/p>\n
But I think Tuesday, Sept. 8 is not right. Since the Monday is a public holiday, and Apple flies press in from around the U.S. (and the world) for the keynote, the company doesn\u2019t like to bust into that holiday for those guests, or indeed its staff. <\/p>\n
As such, Sept. 8 is a non-starter, I\u2019d say. The second date Gurman mentions, Wednesday, Sept. 9, is the one that I believe is secretly marked in Cupertino calendars.<\/p>\n
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Predicted Onsale Date<\/p>\n
When the iPhones will reach customers seems as clear as ever, though.<\/p>\n
You can read a full schedule of what I expect to happen when this fall here<\/a>. The good news is that either way, the release date for the iPhone 18 Pro will be the same: the Friday in the week after the keynote. This year, that means Sept. 18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max \u2014 when will the next model arrive? NurPhoto via Getty Images The next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[225864,225870,225867,225871,59,225865,225862,225866,225863,225869,225868,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple-autumn-keynote-timeline","tag-consumer-electronics-shipping-window","tag-cupertino-event-logistics-management","tag-fourth-quarter-financial-revenue-optimization","tag-gb","tag-iphone-18-pro-max-launch-date","tag-iphone-18-pro-release-schedule","tag-iphone-ultra-foldable-announcement","tag-mark-gurman-bloomberg-leak","tag-post-labor-day-travel-constraints","tag-retail-onsale-shelf-target","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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