2024 iPad Pro
I believe that’s going to be the year of the iPad because Apple last year gave us no updates to any of the iPads in any lineup so this year Apple’s going to revamp the entire lineup moving forward and 9 to5 Mac actually reported on an article by 91 mobiles about some awesome new renders for the upcoming 2024 iPad Air
So in this video I want to give you guys four reasons why I believe the iPad Air is going to be the winner of all iPads moving forward but without further Ado
Current State of iPad Air
So reason number one and probably the biggest reason and excuse the pun because I’m going to let you know why that’s upon is that Apple’s working on a brand new version of the iPad Air
So we’ve known the iPad Air to be the 10.9-inch iPad Air it’s been that same size for a little while now it did get that industrial design language change a couple of years ago but for the most part it’s been one size fits all for the iPad Air and it’s kind of fit in this Middle Ground between kind of like a Content consumption machine and then a premium productivity device right?
Now the 2022 iPad Air does have an M1 chip so it is powerful enough to run some of those more intensive tasks that are run on the iPad Pro but it does lack some of those more Niche kind of higher quality and Hardware updates like that promotion display and things of that nature but again that iPad Air comes in one size and that one size is
what you get for the iPad Air but what Apple is probably noticing as the years have gone on is people don’t really want to spend an absurd amount of money just to get a larger-sized device because as of right
Now the only way to get the largest iPad is to go with a 12.9 inch iPad Pro it starts at $1,100 and for a lot of people that’s a hard pill to swallow especially for those people that are going to be using this iPad in a much more kind of casual way for Conta consumption and surfing the web you know and reading an ebook and things like that.
So for $1,100 it’s hard to convince people to go that route so Apple learned this with a few different products that they’ve already done.
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This to right they started with the iPhone lineup first we have the iPhone 12 mini and the 13 Mini with the regular 13 and iPhone 12 lineup and yes in theory maybe people wanted a smaller phone but obviously it didn’t sell enough.
Then Apple with the 14 and 15 lineup got rid of the mini and brought us the iPhone 14 and 15 plus which is selling much much better compared to the iPhone 13 and 12 mini and what we’re learning is that people don’t want to have to spend an extra three4 $500 just to get the larger device.
They’re willing to take some sacrifices on the hardware to get a larger screen size right like the iPhone 15 Plus still has a 60 HZ display the USBC Port doesn’t actually give you the fastest kind of transfer speeds and charging speeds and there’s some other little nuances like only a two camera system versus a three-camera system.
And people are okay with that they’re not going to want to spend $1,500 on a 15 Pro Max they can just spend you know their $8 $900 on a 15 plus and get 99% of the experience on a day-to-day basis and then if you realize
Apple did the same exact thing with their MacBook Air lineup right the M2 MacBook Air or even the M1 MacBook Air was an amazing device that people loved it because you got a great bang fore a bug from a performance standpoint efficiency standpoint battery life standpoint and for 1,00 , or $100 you got a full-fledged operating system and computer that you can use for years on end
but people wanted a larger display on that same MacBook Air right but then they didn’t want to go and spend MacBook Pro money like $2,000 2500 $3,000 on a 14 or 16inch MacBook Air so Apple they literally just took the MacBook Air the M2 MacBook Air and made a 15-in version
And increased the price by about $200 and now that MacBook Air is selling like hotcakes and it’s one of Apple’s bestselling laptops of all time because Apple learned that people didn’t want all that extra horsepower and they didn’t care about the mini display they just wanted a larger canvas that they can take on the go in a nice and light form factor.
New Larger iPad Air
So with all that being said Apple will be releasing a new larger iPad Air. They’re still going to have the 10.9 in but Apple’s going to now give you an option to have a 12.9 in iPad Air moving forward and the price is going to be a lot less than 12.9 in iPad Pro comparatively so this iPad Air is going to be for those people that don’t care about having an OLED display for those people that don’t care about having a mini LED display for those people that
Don’t care about the 120 HZ promotion for those people that don’t need Thunderbolt bolts for those people that don’t need a dual camera array and people that don’t need a light art scanner on the rear of their iPad.
They just want an iPad that works well is powerful enough to handle some intensive tasks but for the most part it’s going to be used for casual use but they want that large display in that large canvas so that’s what Apple’s going to give us with the 2024 iPad Air literally I think what’s going to happen is imagine the 2018 iPad Pro that released again in 2018 it’s going to be that same exact chassis but without the actual promotion display in some larger bezel
I think this is a very smart move by Apple because Apple has been seeing that people are gravitating towards larger devices but they are hesitant to go to a larger device.
Because of price so bringing the larger device price down overall is going to be a big win for people that want to get a larger iPad without having to spend $100 or even more with a rumored $1,800 12.9 in iPad Pro that’s releasing later this year
So that is the first reason right the first reason is that Apple’s going to be releasing a larger iPad with the same exact form factor and there’s a bunch of other smaller things that are going to be changing but for the most part the main difference of this iPad is going to be that they’re going to be offering a new larger 12.9 in model to go along with that 10.9 in model.
And then in some of those renders that we did see from 91 Mobile if you look at the rear of it Apple will be keeping the single camera design but they are changing the look of it a little bit to give it almost like an iPhone 10 and 10s look of that pill shape so it’s going to be the camera on the top in that same kind of protruding pill.
Then below that camera will be a mic array as well as a flash so that is going to be the design overall it’s going to be exactly the same outside of that it’s still going to have Touch ID it’s still going to have that industrial design it’s still going to be a 60 HZ LED display so it’s not going to have any promotion maybe the jelly scroll is going to come back.
New, More Powerful Internals
iPad Pro is going to be a big seller in my opinion and then of course Apple’s going to have to 2024 ify the iPad Air by bringing it to the M2 standard so it will be putting an M2 Chip in there as well as things like Bluetooth 5.3 wi-5 6E and everything else to kind of make the internals just a little bit newer
Because the last time we had an iPad Air refresh was in March of 2022 so this will be pretty much a full 2-year cycle from the last iPad Air to the new one so again this iPad is going to be power powerful enough to handle some of those more intense tasks more productivity tasks but it’ll be amazing at some of those low-intensity tasks like viewing content surfing on Safari
maybe the occasional gaming session and things like that and that is what we’re going to be getting out of the 12.9 inch iPad Air in 2024.
Larger Speakers and Better Battery
Then the next reason is because of the fact that it’s going to be a larger iPad we’re going to get two things in there just by default we’re going to have a larger speaker system and it’s going to be a little bit louder because there’s going to be a lot more space inside of the actual iPad for it to kind of Echo
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and bounce around and create a little bit more base then also obviously we’re going to have AAR battery in there and this could be the new iPad Battery King similar to the iPhone 15 plus and 14 plus because of the fact that it’s still not going to have that promotion display or an OLED or a mini LED display it’s going to have a regular 60 HZ LED display
so the battery is going to be much larger yes it’s going to have to power a more sizable screen but I do believe it’s going to be the battery King when I comes to the iPads moving forward.
iPad Air Pricing
Standpoint I do believe Apple’s going to be keeping the 10.9 in iPad Air at that same $599 price point and then I think the 12.9in iPad Air is going to start at $77.99 but I do believe Apple’s going to keep us at 64 gigs which would be very unfortunate if Apple does that as a baseline storage then you have to spend $150 to upgrade it to 256.
let’s see if Apple gives us maybe a 128 Baseline and then a 512 as the next upgradeable storage.
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