With final week’s announcement of the primary Macs with the M4 household of chips and we sit up for the launch of these Macs, I anticipated Apple to not embrace any Apple stickers within the field for these Mac fashions. Now that immediately’s embargo of unboxings, first appears, and opinions of these have been lifted, it has now been confirmed that that is the case.
This can be an enormous disappointment for a number of Apple lovers; nevertheless, Apple began to not embrace Apple stickers for this yr’s merchandise. This pattern began with the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, and the next merchandise adopted go well with: iPad Air (M2), iPad Professional (M4), all iPhone 16 fashions, iPad mini (A17), and now all Macs with the M4 household of chips, many people did see that coming.
What was much more distinctive in regards to the Apple stickers that got here with these Macs was that they had been mainly color-matched to the end of the Mac. Earlier than the newly introduced Macs, the previous-generation Macs got here with these stickers:
The one exception for an Apple product from 2024 that features Apple stickers is the MacBook Air (M3) fashions, which embrace stickers that color-match to the end too. Nevertheless, don’t anticipate to see any Apple stickers for the product as soon as Apple updates it to the M4 chip as quickly as early subsequent yr.
In the event you nonetheless need Apple stickers, it’s possible you’ll ask for them with an Apple Retailer worker in individual if you choose up a brand new M4 Mac, provided that they nonetheless have a provide for them. In any other case, you’re out of luck. On the brilliant aspect, the Apple stickers that you just’ve been accumulating might be much more precious.
