Apple appears to have prematurely revealed the name of its rumored lower-cost MacBook model, which is expected to be announced this Wednesday. A regulatory document for a “MacBook Neo” (Model A3404) has appeared on Apple’s website. Unfortunately, there are no further details or images available yet. While the PDF file does not contain the “MacBook Neo” name, it briefly appeared in a link on Apple’s regulatory website for EU compliance purposes.

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    23 hours ago

    “accidentally”

    Edit: Have fun and change Apple for any other company to see those “accidental” leaks

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      22 hours ago

      Not sure what your point is. Apple notoriously works really hard to keep all this stuff under wraps. They even sue the people who leak them. The fact that people are reporting on the leak is supposed to somehow suggest that it wasn’t an accident?

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        22 hours ago

        When the product is ready to be put on sale a good marketing strategy it’s that “was leaked”. As you say, Apple is a big company that has very strong security metrics, that’s why nothing is leaked when is in development, those are the true leaks (like the GTA VI leak). If I read right, the product it’s going to be announced this wednesday and was “leaked” to make people talk about it. It’s just some kind of engagement bait.

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                21 hours ago

                do you really think marketing starts at a launch? people have to know what’s going to be announced to be excited to watch.

                of course leaks are a part of that.

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                  21 hours ago

                  do you really think marketing starts at a launch?

                  Generally, yeah?

                  people have to know what’s going to be announced to be excited to watch.

                  Yeah, and everyone knew there was a MacBook Air in that manila envelope, right? 🤔

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                    21 hours ago

                    No, it starts months before with teases and leaks.

                    Also like, you agree you knew what was in the envelope, you think that was an accident?