Here is why this is smart. The iPad Air is the closest iPad mannequin to the iPad Professional. By providing a 12.9-inch iPad Air variant, consumers can get many of the options they need, the display screen dimension they want, and since the iPad Air (2024) will nonetheless use an LCD panel, the worth will likely be a lot decrease than the price of the 12.9-inch OLED iPad Professional (2024). Each the iPad Professional (2024) and iPad Air (2024) may have a landscape-oriented FaceTime digicam and upgraded chips (M2 for the iPad Air, M3 for the iPad Professional). We might see the brand new iPad Professional line characteristic help for MagSafe wi-fi charging.
A few weeks in the past, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned to anticipate new iPad fashions quickly
Gurman famous within the e-newsletter that stock ranges of the latest iPad Air (2022) have been declining in retail shops as shipments of the mannequin are minimize considerably. That is one thing that Apple usually does previous to the discharge of an upgraded system. Shipments of the iPad Professional haven’t been diminished which might point out that Apple has loads of stock to do away with, or it might sign that the corporate plans to maintain the iPad Professional (2022) tablets as a lower-priced possibility after the OLED items launch.Â
Apple is not internet hosting an enormous occasion to mark the introduction of the brand new iPads and it’ll as an alternative merely challenge a press launch to make the announcement.