Kuo: Larger 12.9-inch iPad Air Coming Early 2024 Amid Lineup Refresh

[ProfessionalFan]

Another Apple product gets a second model with a larger-sized screen.

Meanwhile, the iMac sits in a corner, staring into the abyss…

Til a 32" model is released for it

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Excellent idea with the SD Card slot and MagSafe. One more thing: add a basic IP rating to the Pro so people feel comfortable using it out in the field, that's one major way the iPad Pro can differ from the Mac.

Frankly, all iPads should have good water-resistance.

 

[rhaezorblue]

'iPad Air Plus' just rolls off the tongue smoothly. 🤣

iPad Air Pro Plus Max... now in phantom black!

 

[The Game 161]

might be a sign how much more expensive the next 13 inch iPad Pro will be. fit in a cheaper 12.9 air to make up for it

 

[smulji]

Frankly, all iPads should have good water-resistance.

Why? Are you using it as a floating device when you go swimming?

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Why? Are you using it as a floating device when you go swimming?

Are you using your phone that way?

 

[Warped9]

Meanwhile, the iMac sits in a corner, staring into the abyss…

Not the same market.

 

[smulji]

Are you using your phone that way?

If phones keep increasing in size the way they have been, you never know.

 

[TigerNike23]

Not the same market.

Nobody cares about a big iPad Air.

Might as well go full clown and have two different sizes for the Mini, cheap, Air and Pro lines.

 

[Warped9]

Nobody cares about a big iPad Air.

Just because you don’t doesn’t make it “nobody.”

Lots of people look at the iPad Pro 12.9, but are put off by the price. But if one were more affordable…

 

[TheNewLou]

We're really limited by a lame iPadOS that is still meant mostly to run on a phone and not a device with a keyboard and mouse to do real work.

I think that's mostly to do with the switch from Objective-C to Swift and the virtual merging of UIKit with AppKit (& WatchKit) which threw a monkey wrench into the evolution of iPadOS over the past 5 years

Apple, like every other developer, is slowly rewriting their macOS apps to work on macOS and iPadOS, so at every WWDC we'll see Mac apps and iPad apps become more and more alike, to the point they're largely indistinguishable

5 years ago it would've been very difficult to bring Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad, but Apple did it this year

Now imagine the core OS apps like Photos, Finder, & gasp Terminal being the same on Macs & iPads. Swift Playgrounds already is.

 

[SXR]

Wait, what… iPad Pro 11 inch in the 2nd quarter? isnt there going to be a single event announcing all of the new iPads?

 

[XboxEvolved]

Yeah I'll be watching this I was going to get the newest iPad Pro when it was released but if they really end up jacking the price up on it, I dunno probably this?

 

[Biro]

Wait, what… iPad Pro 11 inch in the 2nd quarter? isnt there going to be a single event announcing all of the new iPads?

All of the rumors I have read about seem to indicate the Airs will come before the end of March and the Pros later in the year. Now, there’s no way of telling if this is accurate. But that’s what I’ve read on this site and others.

 

[SXR]

Oh, I believe the latest news is that both Pro and Air models will launch around March/April. Guess we’ll see!