Apple will add a brand new bigger 12.9-inch iPad Air to a wholly refreshed iPad lineup coming subsequent 12 months, with two iPad Air fashions taking precedence in Apple’s launch roadmap, based on Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
In his newest outlook, Kuo predicts that Apple will compensate for this 12 months’s lack of motion in its iPad lineup by updating all current fashions, beginning with 10.9-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Airs with new chips scheduled for mass manufacturing within the first quarter of 2024.
Kuo says the beforehand rumored all-new 12.9-inch iPad Air can have a brand new LCD display screen that lacks the mini-LED expertise of Apple’s present iPad Professional fashions, however will profit from the identical oxide backplane. It will provide higher show efficiency than the present 10.9-inch iPad Air that makes use of an a-Si backplane.
Subsequent in line for launch are the OLED iPad Professional fashions which have been rumored for a while. Apple will launch a brand new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Professional with a redesigned chassis and new M3 chip within the second quarter.
Kuo believes that final on Apple’s 2024 manufacturing roadmap are a brand new iPad mini and an Eleventh-generation iPad, Apple’s most inexpensive pill. It will see the discontinuation of Apple’s Ninth-generation iPad at the moment nonetheless supplied alongside the Tenth-generation mannequin in Apple’s lineup.
Kuo believes these adjustments will see solely modest positive aspects in iPad shipments in comparison with this 12 months, and predicts round 52-54 million items in 2024 in comparison with 2023. Such a rise stays manner off Apple’s peak of 63 million iPads shipped throughout 2022 through the pandemic.
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman lately additionally prompt Apple will replace its whole iPad lineup all through 2024, however his timeline prediction is barely completely different to Kuo and doesn’t point out a brand new bigger iPad Air.
Gurman beforehand reported that the low-end to mid-range iPads may very well be up to date as early as March 2024, whereas he expects new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Professional fashions with the M3 chip and OLED shows to launch within the first half of 2024. The following iPad Air and iPad mini are more likely to be outfitted with M2 and A16 Bionic chips, respectively.
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