A keynote or Apple Event is an event organized by Apple in which they publicly display new products, advancements or services that are or will be made available to the general public. These events have become a flagship for the Big Apple, with millions of people gathering to follow them from all over the world. The entrance of the new year 2022 makes us consider when we will have the first Apple Event of the year. Will it be before summer? Will we have keynote throughout the spring like the last few years? And if so, what devices would be lucky enough to show up?
This has been the Apple Events of recent years
Before talking about the near future, let's make a compilation of the latest Apple keynotes. In order to understand when to place the first event, it is necessary to know that the big apple usually makes between three and four keynotes a year. One of them is always fixed: WWDC, the event for developers, which always takes place in the first or second week of June. As a general rule, in recent years Apple has accustomed us to having an event before WWDC and two after. With the aim of offering new products for Christmas.
En 2016 Apple conducted a event in march in which he presented the 9,7-inch iPad Pro, the first generation of the iPhone SE, and the HealthKit and ResearchKit frameworks for health research were unveiled. The 2017 It was a strange year since we only had two presentations: the summer one and the September event almost always dedicated to iPhones. In September of that year The Steve Jobs Theater opened on the new Apple Campus and the new Apple Watch Series 3, iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X were unveiled.
If we focus on the presentations around March / April of the years following we see how in 2018 Apple presented a Dedicated iPad for education At a very small keynote in Chicago. In 2019, new services such as Apple News +, Apple Card, Apple Arcade and Apple TV + were introduced. In 2020 there was no presentation in march because the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and it is likely that projected products for that quarter will be postponed for subsequent presentations.
Finally, in 2021, last year, we had event in april in which the new iPad Pro, the new iMac with M1, the Apple TV 4K, the AirTag and the purple mode of the iPhone 12 and 12 Mini were unveiled.
These could be the devices in a possible Apple Event 2022 before summer
If we follow, therefore, Apple's scheme regarding its events in recent years We would be talking about being able to have a keynote in the first quarter of 2022. That is, around March or April. Historically, March events have always been dedicated to iPads. However, the pattern has been fluctuating in recent years. So the prediction that it would be an iPad-centric event could be wrong.
However, we can look forward to a new generation of iPhone SE. The first generation of the iPhone SE was known in March 2016 and we could see the third generation in a new event in the first quarter of 2022. This new iPhone SE would maintain the same objective with which it was created: an affordable iPhone, with a design keeping the 4,7 inches, Touch ID, with 5G support and A15 chip that currently carry the iPhone 13. A boost to a product that maintains its design in the iPhone of 2016.
Finally, the Apple Event projected for spring 2022 would close with a Mac mini with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips presented in 2021 that, together with the 27-inch iMac, would conclude Apple's transition to its M1 chips. With this, the Mac mini would go to a higher range. Since currently the renewed Mac mini have Intel chips instead of the chips designed and produced by the big apple.
They are also expected new 27-inch iMac with mini LED display for the first quarter of 2022. In April of last year we already saw new Macs. It would not be strange to see the update of these 27-inch iMac in March or April of 2022. This iMac It would carry the M1 Pro and M1 Max chip from the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. Also, I would add the ProMotion function allowing to increase the screen refresh rate up to 120 Hz like the iPhone 13.