iPhone 6 To Launch At WWDC In July With Supercharged Touch ID?

When will the iPhone 6 be released? Ever since the iPhone 4s, Apple has unveiled the next iPhone in September, but at least one analyst is now claiming that Apple might go back to a WWDC launch in 2014.

According to Mizukho Securities analyst Abhey Lamba, the next iPhone could launch as early as a July, getting an early jump on the Christmas season that would make sure that supply is plentiful in time for the holidays.

That’s not all. Lamba says his sources in the supply chain believe that the iPhone 6 will come in an array of screen sizes, from 4.7-inches to 5.5-inches.

He also claims that Touch ID will be get a boost this year with app integration, as well as jumping from the iPhone to the iPad this year (which isn’t much of a prediction — Apple usually rolls out the last-gen iPhone’s killer feature to the iPad the year after, such as Siri and the Retina Display).

Finally, Lamba claims that a next-gen Apple TV will also be launched this year. Again, not much of a prediction: at the very least, it seems likely that Apple will update its set-top box to use a more modern A7 processor this year.

All of these predictions, of course, should be taken with a huge grain of salt. It’s not likely Apple will release iPhones in a range of display sizes, although it’s possible Apple could take an Air/mini approach with the next-gen iPhone.

Either way, the idea of a 5.5-inch iPhone is hard to swallow, considering the fact that phablets haven’t really caught on in the States the same way they have in Asia. Time will tell.

Source: Cult of Mac.

Apple iWatch could be worth generate $17.5 billion in first year sales.

I would imagine it is pretty difficult to estimate sales for a device whose price is unknown and whose existence is as of yet unconfirmed. However, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty thinks the iWatch could generate $17.5 billion in sales in its first 12 months.

To put that figure in perspective, the iPhone and iPad triggered sales of $2.5 billion and $12 billion during their initial years.

Huberty’s predictions for the iWatch assume a price tag of $299 and a customer-base similar to that of the iPad. Mindful of possible supply constraints for the iWatch, Huberty states that first year revenue could be limited to $12-14 billion which would still be a significant bump to Apple’s revenue.

Huberty said in an investors note:

Our working assumption is that iWatch largely will be adopted as an accessory device and, therefore, sold into the existing customer base, like the iPad, rather than to new customers, like the iPod or iPhone