Ever since TF Worldwide analyst Ming-Chi Kuo mentioned final 12 months that Apple could be including a second 12.9-inch iPad Air (2024) pill to the normal 10.9-inch variant, different analysts and leakers have jumped on the bandwagon calling for Apple to launch two iPad Air (2024) tablets this 12 months. In response to
Wccftech, that record would not embrace leaker ShrimpApplePro who says that Apple will launch only one iPad Air pill with a ten.9-inch LCD display screen.
ShrimpApplePro does align himself with another rumors associated to the iPad Air (2024) such because the transfer to a landscape-oriented front-facing digital camera giving the machine a laptop-like really feel when taking selfies. To not disparage ShrimpApplePro, however what passes for proof at this stage factors to the addition of a larger-screened iPad Air this 12 months. To begin with, Ming-Chi Kuo has an impressive observe file in relation to Apple {hardware}, and in January, we confirmed you leaked schematics that had been mentioned to be of the 12.9-inch iPad Air mannequin.
The brand new iPad Air is meant to have the identical 12.9-inch display screen dimension as this iPad Professional mannequin from 2022
Look, it is sensible for Apple to create a 12.9-inch iPad Air in order that those that need/want a larger-sized pill however cannot afford the top-of-the-line iPad Professional can keep throughout the Apple ecosystem. Contemplating that the iPad Professional will most likely be outfitted with expensive OLED panels this 12 months for the primary time, now could be the right second for Apple to supply the iPad Air with 10.9-inch and 12.9-inch LCD panels.
Whereas we did see that an Asian web site says that the brand new tablets might be launched on March twenty sixth, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that we must always anticipate the iPad Professional (2024) collection and the iPad Air (2024) line to be launched in late April.
The pill market has been within the doldrums ever because the pandemic ended. Fiscal fourth quarter iPad income declined 10.2% year-over-year. For all of fiscal 2023, iPad gross sales dropped 3.4% to $28.30 billion. Understand that for the primary time because the iPad was first launched in 2010, Apple didn’t introduce one new pill throughout calendar 2023. It is going to be fascinating to see whether or not Apple’s determination to take the 12 months off from unveiling new tablets lights a hearth below iPad patrons.