Apple may finally announce the next Apple TV in September

Apple was rumored to be announcing the long-awaited successor to the current Apple TV streaming box at the Worldwide Developers Conference last month, but obviously that didn’t end up happening. However, BuzzFeed’s John Paczkowski claims that Apple will still be announcing the next Apple TV this year and that the company decided to wait until September to announce it so that it could be a little “more polished.”

The long-awaited refresh on the Apple TV set-top streaming box is coming in September, according to a new report from BuzzFeed’s John Paczkowski. Earlier reports claimed that Apple was initially aiming to announce the new Apple TV at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but that event instead centered around the Apple Music streaming service and Mac OS X El Capitan. But Paczkowski reports that Apple is finally ready to unveil the redesigned Apple TV at the same fall event where it usually reveals the newest iPhone, with the extra time resulting in a “more polished” Apple TV streaming box. On the hardware side, Apple is said to have slimmed down the Apple TV itself, and the Apple TV remote is also getting a redesign that includes a new haptic touch pad. It sounds like Apple is also updating the Apple TV’s processor to one of its A8 chips, and it’s also adding more RAM for a speed boost.