Apple has a remarkable track record as a technical powerhouse capable of surprising very knowledgeable people in the industry with their innovations and the depth of their engineering. You’d be wise to wait and see what they’ll produce and keep an open mind in the meantime. “Analysts” who don’t risk looking foolish, like the well known case of the pundit who declared that there’s no evidence that people will use a mouse, and many others in the same vein since then.