Apple admits that the launch of the iPhone 12 was delayed, but now it turns out that the wait will be longer than the company suggested.

The news comes from Jon Prosser, an Apple connoisseur in 2020, who says the launch of the iPhone 12 can be up to a month late, with pre-orders and shipping times for iPhone 12 Pro models through November. If that’s the right type (and Prosser has a 100 percent pitch record this year), he would release recent comments from Apple’s leading monetary director, Luca Maestri, that new iPhones paint “a few weeks later [as usual]” as too optimistic.

By context, Apple announced, opened pre-orders and shipped 14 of its last 15 iPhones in September and pre-orders have traditionally opened a week before phones went on sale. In no case, “a few weeks later” results in shipments in November. Except one.

Prosser says sales of the entry-level iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Plus (recently renamed) will begin in mid-October (week 42 of pre-orders, week 43 shipping). As a result, Maestri would possibly have tried to mitigate considerations by referring only to a portion of the new range.

Interestingly, Mark Gurman, who is still in Bloomberg, disagrees with Prosser, has not yet proposed any other dates. Speaking to me, Prosser also showed that “there are one hundred percent what’s in the formula right now,” which he claims to have noticed with his own eyes. So, unless it’s an Apple trap designed to catch Prosser’s sources, it turns out that iPhone enthusiasts are waiting longer than expected.

But will the diversity of the iPhone 12 be worth the wait? Maybe. While updates can expect new demo sizes, adding a 5.4-inch iPhone 12 and a 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max, a multigenerational feature jump, an impressive new stylus, competitive pricing, and 3-D camera mapping generation on Pro models, there are concerns. The biggest forward-looking challenge is its extremely small batteries, while its high cooling presentations have been canceled and the notch looks bad in 2020.

The bright side? At least now you have more time to make a decision.

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