Apple Watch Series 10 was launched on the firm’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ launch occasion on September 9, however Apple did not unveil a successor to final yr’s Watch Ultra 2. This is consistent with a prediction by TF Securities International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who precisely predicted final October that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 will not be launched by the corporate in 2024. Similarly, the corporate is but to refresh its Apple Watch SE mannequin. The analyst has now recommended a launch timeline for these smartwatches.
In a put up on X (previously Twitter), Kuo says that the Cupertino firm will launch the Apple Watch Ultra 3 in 2025. The Apple Watch SE (2nd Generation) will even be up to date, three years after the current-generation mannequin was launched, in line with the analyst.
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 yr’s media occasion, which is consistent with my prediction from a few yr in the past.
2. The 2025 new Apple… https://t.co/j457raXTgf— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) September 10, 2024
If Kuo’s newest declare is correct, then we are able to count on each the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and third-generation Apple Watch SE to be launched within the third quarter of 2025, which is when the corporate usually launches new smartwatch and smartphone fashions. They might arrive alongside the purported iPhone 17 sequence, which is anticipated to succeed Apple’s just lately launched iPhone 16 lineup.
In October 2023, the analyst predicted that Apple wouldn’t launch a successor to the Watch Ultra 2 mannequin, stating that was but to start out improvement on a brand new mannequin. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman additionally revised his prediction hours earlier than the launch occasion on Monday, claiming that Apple would solely launch a brand new color variant of the Watch Ultra 2.
At the time, Kuo mentioned that if a brand new Apple Watch Ultra mannequin wasn’t introduced in 2024, it might see shipments of the flagship watch decline by as a lot as 30 p.c year-on-year and a drop of 10 p.c in whole Apple Watch shipments.
This implies that the Apple Watch Series 10 is more likely to stay the one upgraded smartwatch mannequin from Apple in 2024. The firm can also be anticipated to carry a launch occasion in October for a brand new Mac Mini, iMac, and MacGuide Pro fashions which might be all mentioned to be powered by the corporate’s M4 chips.
