Not a topic per se, this tag is mostly for me to mark picks that are never going to become ahead of their time so that I know that I already looked at it and made the decision.
Stephen's Unvindicatable Picks
| Type | The AirPower Game | Score | |
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| Stephen | Non‑graded | "AirPower will come out the first week of December 2018" | 0 |
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| Type | 2018 iPhone Event Predictions | Score | |
| Stephen | Non‑graded | "Names will be XC and XS" | 0 |
| Type | 2019 Fall Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Regular | "No Mac or iPad hardware in the keynote" | 0 |
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| Stephen | Non‑graded | "Jeff Williams will take a greater role in the keynote" | 0 |
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| Type | 2020 Annual Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Non‑graded | "WWDC brings no real changes to Mac Catalyst" | 0 |
| Stephen | Non‑graded | "Apple will not ship an ARM Mac in 2020" | 0 |
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| Type | 2020 Summer Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Non‑graded | "A new iMac is announced with Intel CPUs" | 0 |
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| Type | 2020 September Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "Joz wears a non-solid-color shirt" | 0 |
| Stephen | Flexie | "Apple somehow sets expectations for when the iPhone will be announced" | 0 |
| Stephen | Flexie | "The removal of Force Touch on watchOS is framed as the inclusion of Haptic Touch" | 0 |
| Stephen | Flexie | "Preview of fall Apple TV+ content" | 0 |
| Type | 2021 Annual Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "The new iPhone will be the 12S, not the 13" | 0 |
| Type | 2021 April Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Regular | "The iPad Pro is updated to a variant of the A14 chip" | 0 |
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| Stephen | Flexie | "We see Joz introduce something" | 0 |
| Stephen | Flexie | "The Magic Keyboard for iPad goes unchanged" | 0 |
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| Stephen | Flexie | "No mention of AirTags" | 0 |
| Type | 2021 October Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Regular | "At least 1 new Mac model announced ships in November" | 0 |
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| Stephen | Flexie | "USB-C charging is faster than the new MagSafe" | 0 |
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| Stephen | Flexie | "The chip is called the M1X" | 0 |
| Stephen | Flexie | "macOS Monterey features are reviewed" | 0 |
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| Type | 2022 Annual Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Regular | "The iPad's external display support goes unchanged" | 0 |
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| Stephen | Flexie | "Apple announces a developer kit for its headset" | 0 |
| Type | 2022 March Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "iOS 15.4 and/or macOS 12.3 get a release date" | 0 |
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| Type | 2022 WWDC Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "A presenter references the fact that some developers are at Apple Park for the keynote" | 0 |
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| Type | 2022 September Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Regular | "The Apple Watch SE, announced in 2020, moves down in price with no feature changes" | 0 |
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| Stephen | Flexie | "Lightning is updated to be faster than USB 2.0" | 0 |
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| Type | 2023 Annual Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "The iPhone 15 and 15 Pro use the same generation system-on-a-chip" | 0 |
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| Type | 2023 WWDC Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Risky | "The announced price of the headset will be less than $2,500" | -1 |
| Stephen | Flexie | "Apple reframes an existing feature as being powered by "AI"" | 0 |
| Stephen | Flexie | "Jeff Williams has a major role in introducing the headset" | 0 |
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| Type | 2023 October Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "We don't see Tim Cook on video" | 0 |
| Type | 2024 May Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "A new Apple Pencil is announced and only works with the new iPad Pros" | 0 |
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| Type | 2024 WWDC Rickies | Score | |
| Stephen | Flexie | "Some AI features on the Mac require an M2 or later" | 0 |