Apple

Aug 27, 2024BF3-0281Moving target

Dickson: iPhone 16 dummies show five colors

Leaked dummy units showed the iPhone 16 in white, black, blue, green, and pink.

Leaker Sonny Dickson shared images of iPhone 16 dummy units in white, black, blue, green and pink, matching color predictions from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

How to read this record

  1. What was reportedLeaked dummy units showed the iPhone 16 in white, black, blue, green, and pink.
  2. Who said it, and whenSonny Dickson reported it on Aug 27, 2024 in MacRumors.
  3. What happened, and whenApple iPhone 16 was announced on Sep 9, 2024, 13 days after this report. From our product record · source
  4. The verdict, and whyMoving targetThis was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.Why: The dummy-unit palette got Black, White, and Pink right; the final additional colors were Teal and Ultramarine rather than generic Green and Blue.
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Wrong
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Moving target
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Never settled
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Not comparable
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No outcome yet
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Moving target
A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
Reported by
Sonny Dickson
We read it in
MacRumors
Product
Apple iPhone 16 · reported as “iPhone 16”
Read it at MacRumors

The story of this report

  1. Aug 27, 2024Sonny Dickson reported it · MacRumors
  2. Sep 9, 2024Apple iPhone 16 was announced · from our product record
  3. VerdictMoving targetWhat it means, and why, is in the box above.

Who reported it

Sonny Dickson · Leaker

19 reports in the Reporting Record. Of the 14 we have checked, 13 held up. The other 5 are not part of that number: 1 moving target, 2 never settled, 2 no outcome yet.

Every report from Sonny Dickson

Other reports about Apple iPhone 16

29 reports about Apple iPhone 16 from 7 sources. Of the 19 we have checked, 18 held up.

Questions about this report

Did this Apple iPhone 16 report turn out to be true?
Moving target. This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it. The dummy-unit palette got Black, White, and Pink right; the final additional colors were Teal and Ultramarine rather than generic Green and Blue.
Who reported it first?
Sonny Dickson reported it on Aug 27, 2024 in MacRumors.
How far ahead of the announcement was it?
That was 13 days before Apple iPhone 16 was announced on Sep 9, 2024.