More often than not, Apple rumors aren’t all that surprising. Even if they don’t pan out into a real product, they typically seem credible enough to believe. Even the crazy ones. For example, Apple bringing back the iPod in 2022.
That’s apparently happening, according to virtual reality evangelist Robert Scoble. He posted on Twitter late last night (via AppleInsider) that Apple is planning to debut its first VR headset at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in 2022. Scoble says the launch timing is due to the fact Apple is expecting “the new iPod will be a huge deal for Christmas.”
Scoble goes on from there, saying that the brand new iPod will “work together” with the new VR headset. However, there aren’t any additional details attached to the tweet. He does say that the new iPod will feature the “experiences” you’ll get in the VR headset, too:
Regarding Apple’s VR headset:
Just learned it will launch at WWDC next year because the new iPod will be a huge deal for Christmas.
The iPod introduces many of the experiences you will more fully experience by Christmas of 2022 in the headset and expect them to work together.
— Scoble (@Scobleizer) July 15, 2021
Now, Scoble isn’t a renowned leaker by any means. To lean into that fact, Scoble even follows up that initial tweet with this one, saying we should all consider his comments on the company as “untrustworthy.”
Consider anything I say about Apple as untrustworthy. But it is informed.
— Scoble (@Scobleizer) July 15, 2021
In subsequent tweets, Scoble does offer a bit more. Not much, but a little. Scoble says the “new iPod” will feature a “major new version,” and leaves it at that. This would seem to be the believable part. If Apple is going to launch a new iPod, especially one that will somehow be paired with its own brand new VR headset, a major redesign would make sense!
But, we’ll have to wait and see how this pans out. It’s not impossible that we’ll start hearing a lot more rumors like this in the coming months, or maybe they’ll just fall off the side of a cliff and we’ll never hear about a new iPod again.
What do you think? Will we see a new, redesigned iPod next year?