After skipping an entire 12 months, Apple plans to totally refresh its iPad lineup in 2024.
That is in accordance with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who shared his ideas on Apple’s subsequent “huge factor” on Sunday. Gurman notes that Apple hasn’t launched a brand new iPad in all of 2023, one thing that has by no means occurred in iPad’s historical past. And whereas there’s nonetheless two months left within the 12 months, Gurman thinks new iPads aren’t coming till 2024.
“Apple may have tried to hurry out extra new merchandise, however revamped iPads and AirPods aren’t but prepared. The corporate plans to replace its whole iPad lineup throughout 2024,” he wrote. He would not specify the fashions, however “whole lineup” would imply iPad mini, iPad, iPad Air, and iPad Professional. All of those merchandise have been final up to date in 2022, besides the iPad mini, which was up to date in 2021.
Notably, only a few weeks in the past Gurman thought we have been, in actual fact, getting new iPads late this 12 months.
In his new report, Gurman additionally says that new AirPods are additionally coming in 2024, whereas new AirPods Professional will not launch till 2025.
The report additionally mentions the anticipated M3 Extremely chip. Apple lately launched a trio of latest chips: the M3, M3 Professional, and M3 Max, however the firm is predicted to prime all of that with an ultra-powerful (doh) M3 Extremely. Nonetheless, in accordance with Gurman, that chip “hasn’t but gone into broad testing.”
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So far as new Macs coming within the close to future, the report says that the brand new Mac Studio is in growth, and that new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air, in addition to Mac mini, are coming in 2024.