2023 could be a very important year for Apple, as more and more analysts and leaks point to one of the most anticipated announcements happening during this year, probably in its first half. Something that the company has been putting a lot of effort into for some time and which, yes, could cause the rest of the Cupertino catalog to suffer during this recently launched year.

The launch is, as you might have guessed, Apple’s virtual reality/augmented reality headset. Many of us have already stopped counting the years that have passed since the company’s interest in this technology began to be talked about, and the same for the expected launch dates with the subsequent, always unofficial, announcements that the project is ending. postponed or delayed, whether due to market conditions or problems of various kinds.

Just a few days ago, in this regard, the rumor of a new delay spread again, but despite this, there are still the majority of voices pointing to its already imminent launch. Some point to April or May, but in that time frame it seems more likely that Apple would prefer to wait until June before making an official announcement during WWDC 2023, making this year’s event once again the headlines it was in 2020. when the tech company announced a farewell to Intel and a jump to Apple Silicon.

So with the company’s virtual reality viewer in the works, all indications are that a large portion of the company’s resources are already invested in this next launch, and that of course means sacrificing other product lines that will have 2023 on standby. And it is precisely this line that Marc Gurman draws attention to in the latest edition of his Power-On newsletter. by noticing it Apple plans no major updates to its iPad, AirPods, Apple TV and Apple Watch product lines until 2023.

But that doesn’t mean we’ll run out of big announcements this year (besides the viewer himself, of course), as we’re also seeing a growing number of analysts suggesting that this time in June or October, another long-awaited announcement, this one in June 2020, the long-awaited jump from the labor workstations and Mac Pro servers on Silicon. Let us remind you that to this day it is the only Apple computer that still uses Intel processors, specifically from its Xeon family. So many of us are waiting to see the ability of the company’s engineers to squeeze the most out of the ARM architecture and bring it to the market for high-performance systems.