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Well, that was quick. On May 18, a respected industry insider predicted new display technology for the iPad Air expected in the coming days – Apple has just announced its latest special event.
The new 12.9-inch iPad Air would, according to the report, have the same miniLED backlighting currently found on the larger iPad Pro, using the inventory left over from the current Pro as that model switch to OLED. That was exciting news.
But now, Ross Young, the analyst who made the claim, has changed his mind. The new prediction, shared only with paid subscribers, is that the miniLED technology will not be coming to the iPad Air, in either size.
While it makes sense that the inventory could be maximized this way, it now “makes sense” that it won’t.
Young says that while he had heard from supply chain sources that it would, he had now been contacted by “even more supply chain sources” that it would not.
And the reason this change of heart now makes sense is that this miniLED technology is expensive, so it would be surprising if it made it to the iPad Air, which is more affordable than the Pro.
That’s not all the analyst shared. He also said that there are now reports that a new iPad is coming later in the year. This is a 12.9-inch iPad, with miniLED backlighting and could arrive between October and December this year.
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This is interesting. What could it be? Assuming the iPad Pro and iPad Air are released in May, it’s highly unlikely that either will be updated later in the year. And if the iPad Air isn’t expensive enough for miniLED to be included, what tablet could Apple make the same size as the larger Pro, with expensive screen technology, that would sit between the Air and the Pro, it seems?
Young is very reliable, but this seems a bit outrageous to me. The only other iPad in the range to be refreshed is the regular iPad (at 12.9-inches, the iPad mini is clearly out of the picture) and that doesn’t seem likely either.
It seems to me that any regular iPad will almost certainly have the same screen size as now, 10.9 inches. The regular iPad only grew to this size screen in the current generation, and Apple almost never changes designs after one iteration.
Perhaps things will become clearer as the year progresses.
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