Finally, the day has come: can Apple manage to thaw the tablet market, which increased by 1 percent, to become red-hot?
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OLED, M4 and “Apple Pencil Pro”
The company’s sales of iPads have fallen straight after they did not upgrade any models last year. A lot has changed since 2022 with AI as the biggest common denominator no matter what you talk about in the industry. It is therefore rumored that the new iPad Pro OLED models get the M4, and not the M3, a chip with a special focus on NPU power to be able to punish Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series, which has particularly good AI performance. As for aesthetic improvements, we find a slimmer design, probably with smaller frames around the new OLED screens, which will be the big PR point this year.
Besides this, the “iPad Pencil Pro” name has been leaked, so we expect that to happen, and that the pen will get more gestures. The iPad Pro series also gets a new set of aluminum Magic Keyboard – perhaps: “Apple Magic Keyboard Pro”? Mark Gurman from Bloomberg believes that Apple will try to woo potential MacBook owners to an even greater extent, but whether they make changes to multitasking we won’t know until June 10 anyway. iPad Air also comes with an M3 chip and for the first time in a 12.9″ version. A new iPad mini is not expected tonight.
