Apple hit us with new {hardware} final week—the MacBook Professional, the Mac Mini, the second-gen HomePod—and there’s extra to come back this yr in sprinklings. However what’s subsequent on the horizon may not be well worth the rapid improve, studies Bloomberg’s Energy On e-newsletter. Particularly, it would in all probability be a “gentle yr” for the iPad by way of function upgrades throughout all fashions. 2024, nonetheless, seems to be thrilling.
Apple is planning to launch an iPad Professional this yr, regardless of final yr’s quiet launch, however it will likely be subsequent spring when it would seemingly lastly introduce an up to date design and OLED screens. This can undoubtedly complicate some shopping for selections for 2023, particularly for these considering they might maintain on to their money from final yr and improve this yr as a substitute.
However ready till 2024 may reap huge rewards. The rumor mill has been churning over with studies in the previous few years about what an iPad makeover would entail. The newest rumblings are that Apple’s pill would be the first to usher within the OLED show revolution for Apple {hardware}, even earlier than the MacBook Professional. There’s hypothesis that the iPad Professional makeover will embrace bigger shows than those at present provided—as much as 16 inches, in line with a report by The Data final October. The brand new iPad mannequin may additionally have MagSafe on it, just like the iPhone—although we thought it might debut with final yr’s iPad Professional launch. And the rumor that the iPad will undertake wi-fi charging as a result of a glass-back makeover remains to be sturdy.
Bloomberg additionally studies this isn’t the yr for “any main updates” to the iPad Mini and iPad Air, though the previous hasn’t been up to date since 2021. The iPad Mini will in all probability get a slight spec bump if it’s refreshed this yr, however solely to the most recent cell processor. The present iPad Mini has an A15 Bionic chip, which powers up the iPhone 13 sequence. Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst we’ve cited earlier than who has been fairly spot-on with provide chain information, stated final yr that Apple is at present engaged on its latest iPad mini and is predicted to ship by the tip of 2023 or the primary half of subsequent yr.
