It has feel like a slow class for Apple announcements , with no spring event and only minor updates to the iPhone , Apple Watch , and Mac line . ( part this is because of the diversion of developmental resources to the imminent Vision Pro projection . ) But for one major and long - running product category , there have been no announcements at all , and it looks like that wo n’t change before the end of 2023 .
In the latest variant of hisPower On newssheet , Bloomberg leaker Mark Gurman nonchalantly bring up that no iPads will be launched in the remainder of 2023 .
“ Apple has n’t released a novel iPad all year , the first time that ’s happened since Steve Jobs launched the product in 2010 , ” he writes . “ Apple could have tried to rush out more new products , but revamped iPads … are n’t yet ready . The fellowship plan to update its entire iPad card during 2024 . ”
As Gurman notes , the iPad range – which was down 10 per centum in the company ’s most recentfinancial report , in a print of its ongoing struggle to excite customers – has seen at least one new example added in every calendar yr since it was first unveiled 13 year ago .
On that foundation , it seems like something of a surprisal for 2023 to reach its end without a individual iPad proclamation . But this is n’t the first time we ’ve hear that therewon’t be any new iPadsthis yr . And in any case , it ’s worth accentuate that most iPads are n’t updated on a unconstipated yearly basis the way iPhones are . Apple ’s tablet refreshes are far more haphazard .
The Pro and Air mannequin tend to come along once every 18 calendar month or so , and on that timetable , the next iPad Pros are n’t due until bounce 2024 . The sixth - gen iPad Air is overdue , but not by much , and that exemplar had a foresightful hiatus between 2014 and 2019 and could be enter another … or could just be a petty delay . The iPad mini has now gone more than two year without a refresh and could be in a hiatus of its own , or could even have been discontinue .
The odd absence seizure is the eleventh - gen iPad , since Apple ’s cheapest iPad is the close among its tablets to a regular annual refresh . But even here , there are precedents : there was an 18 - month gap between the sixth and seventh models .
This is n’t on the dot causal agent for alarm , in other word . As alluded to antecedently , Vision Pro is causing some slowdown in other country , and 2022 was a relatively fussy year for iPad releases . In that linguistic context it would only take a few minor delay to leave 2023 altogether iPad - free , and we trust Apple will make up of the shortfall early in 2024 .
And we should also getnew AirPodsnext class . Gurman says “ new low - end AirPods ” are set to found in 2024 .
