Apple analyst Kuo claims headset faces 1-2 month delay, prompting uncertainty over WWDC start

Apple’s widely anticipated mixed-reality headset may not be all set in time for the company’s June WWDC event, leading Apple analyst, TFI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo, wrote on Twitter Thursday.

Kuo tweeted that the corporation wasn’t optimistic that the yearslong challenge would get the “astounding ‘iPhone moment'” reception that Apple had hoped for, prompting a slowed production plan to “mid-to-late” 3rd quarter 2023. He mentioned Apple pushed again mass assembly by yet another 1-2 months to mid-to-late Q3.

In the previous, nevertheless, Apple has teased some of its new goods months ahead of they start. The Apple Look at was introduced in Sept. 2014 but did not launch until eventually April 2015.

Kuo explained the major considerations for Apple are the broader economic downturn, “compromises” the firm built for the sake of mass generation, an uncertain ecosystem and developer reception, and a somewhat significant price. Kuo anticipates Apple will value the headset from $3,000 to $4,000, or extra.

Apple expects to offer at most 300,000 headsets in 2023, Kuo wrote. Bloomberg noted Sunday that Apple executives imagine the corporation will market “about a million models” of the headset, which Bloomberg reported would be dubbed the “Reality Professional” or “Reality A single,” in the initially full 12 months of revenue.

The ideal hope for Apple is that headset development matches the trajectory of the Apple Watch, evolving from a “smaller portion” of the company’s business enterprise into a “centerpiece,” Gurman wrote.

Kuo is regarded as a single of the most precise Apple analysts, and has documented on Apple’s shifting technique to the launch of its lengthy-awaited headsets.

Apple did not immediately answer to a request for remark.