Selling your old Apple devices to buy new ones is a high stakes game. Do it before Apple’s announced the replacement and you’ll be able to bank a few extra bucks because a) you’re selling the latest-gen product and b) the market’s not yet saturated with other sellers doing the same thing.
The catch? You’d better be confident that Apple’s going to announce the product you think it will, because otherwise you’ll be stuck with no device. That’s what appears to have happened to a handful of Apple users who were confident that yesterday’s WWDC event would see Apple announce its next-gen M2 MacBook Pros. It didn’t — and now they’re not too happy about it.
The new 16-inch and 14-inch MacBook Pro models are rumored to boast a redesigned chassis, built-in SD card reader and HDMI port, no Touch Bar, and a restored MagSafe charger. They’ll also reportedly feature Apple’s next generation Apple Silicon processor, picking up from the M1 that debuted last year.
MacBook Pros on the way?
Apple doesn’t usually debut hardware at WWDC, which is typically reserved for software these days. Nonetheless, generally reliable tipster Jon Prosser seemed supremely confident new MacBooks were indeed on the way. Prosser tweeted “i can confirm macbook pro is coming” back in May, in response to a post about WWDC.
Not everyone was convinced, though. Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman tweeted: “Getting lots of questions about where the MacBook Pro is. Did anyone reputable say there would be one today? Have only heard as early as summer, which starts in two weeks.” Ahead of the event, Apple didn’t take down its Online Store, which is usually a sign that new hardware is on the way.
Prosser seemed to take the lack of MacBook Pro on the chin, joking on Twitter about his 0% prediction rate for WWDC in the past. Last year, he claimed iOS would be renamed iPhoneOS. Earlier this year, another wrong prediction cost the Apple tipster his eyebrows.
Nonetheless, not everyone appears to have seen the funny side of it. “Sold my 16 inch MacBook 2 days back because of you!!” tweeted one user. “I literally sold my M1 MBP because I was anticipating they will release a new 16″ MBP, WTF man??” wrote another. A third tweeted simply: “Not the time for jokes.”
Since this is the internet, there is, of course, no way of knowing for sure whether they actually did sell their devices. Cult of Mac reached out to some of the claimed sellers, and will update this post if they respond.
Either way, though, it’s a reminder that rumors aren’t always accurate. And you probably shouldn’t base your selling decisions on somewhat sketchy reports.
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