Three New iPads Rumored to Launch in First Half of 2027

Apple Announces Bold New Plan to Make Every iPad Almost the One You Want

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Apple today previewed the next chapter of iPad, bringing customers an extraordinary combination of better screens, faster chips, and carefully distributed reasons to spend another $400.

The next iPad Air gains OLED, allowing customers to enjoy yesterday’s Pro feature at tomorrow’s Air price. Meanwhile, iPad Pro moves to M6 and introduces a vapor chamber, ensuring professional users can sustain unprecedented performance while futiley trying to select text in Safari.

“We asked ourselves how much power we could put into an iPad before we had to let it do more,” said an Apple spokesperson. “Fortunately, we haven’t found that limit.”

The entry-level iPad adds A19, Apple Intelligence, Wi-Fi 7, and an efficient cellular modem—because checking email should require an aerospace briefing.

With M5 in Air and M6 in Pro, choosing an iPad has never been easier: simply decide whether you need a beautiful screen, advanced cooling, or the money.

iPad. Your next computer is still going to be a Mac.

In my dream world, Apple would cull the iPad product line. There is no product line with less differentiation than the iPad. The worst thing to happen to the product line was introducing the Pro tier. It’s bottlenecked the progress of every iPad released since because, again, the differentiation is so limited for a product where they all provide the same experience so they’ve had to create artificial limitations to the progress of the product overall. It’s a hangover from Apple’s failed Mac stewardship during the mid 2010’s (what’s a computer?)

If I could play CEO for a day, I’d:

- Kill the iPad Air and iPad Pro.
- Reduce the Apple Pencil product offering from 3 to 1.
- Create a universal Pencil charging dock that allows for the single Apple Pencil to be compatible with any iPad, whether it has magnetic side charging or not.
- Streamline back to iPad mini and iPad. Make the iPad in multiple sizes, with feature parity across sizes.
- FaceID and ProMotion on all models.

Make both products as advanced as possible as is reasonable to offer affordable prices. No one needs a $2,000 iPad. Buy a MacBook.

Push the tech forward while maintaining prices. Stop pushing the ceiling upwards on a device with no real added capability.

Rant over.

Apple Announces Bold New Plan to Make Every iPad Almost the One You Want

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Apple today previewed the next chapter of iPad, bringing customers an extraordinary combination of better screens, faster chips, and carefully distributed reasons to spend another $400.

The next iPad Air gains OLED, allowing customers to enjoy yesterday’s Pro feature at tomorrow’s Air price. Meanwhile, iPad Pro moves to M6 and introduces a vapor chamber, ensuring professional users can sustain unprecedented performance while futiley trying to select text in Safari.

“We asked ourselves how much power we could put into an iPad before we had to let it do more,” said an Apple spokesperson. “Fortunately, we haven’t found that limit.”

The entry-level iPad adds A19, Apple Intelligence, Wi-Fi 7, and an efficient cellular modem—because checking email should require an aerospace briefing.

With M5 in Air and M6 in Pro, choosing an iPad has never been easier: simply decide whether you need a beautiful screen, advanced cooling, or the money.

iPad. Your next computer is still going to be a Mac.

Please, I beg you, always write such kind of post whenever a new device comes out!!

Serious question but are there any Apps even taking advantage of the M[X] chip when developers probably optimize for the lowest spec entry level iPad on an OS that works the same way no matter which iPad you buy?

Since when is the usb port on the long side of the iPad 👀

In my dream world, Apple would cull the iPad product line. There is no product line with less differentiation than the iPad. The worst thing to happen to the product line was introducing the Pro tier. It’s bottlenecked the progress of every iPad released since because, again, the differentiation is so limited for a product where they all provide the same experience so they’ve had to create artificial limitations to the progress of the product overall. It’s a hangover from Apple’s failed Mac stewardship during the mid 2010’s (what’s a computer?)

If I could play CEO for a day, I’d:

- Kill the iPad Air and iPad Pro.
- Reduce the Apple Pencil product offering from 3 to 1.
- Create a universal Pencil charging dock that allows for the single Apple Pencil to be compatible with any iPad, whether it has magnetic side charging or not.
- Streamline back to iPad mini and iPad. Make the iPad in multiple sizes, with feature parity across sizes.
- FaceID and Promotion on all models.

Make both products as advanced as possible as is reasonable to offer affordable prices. No one needs a $2,000 iPad. Buy a MacBook.

Push the tech forward while maintaining prices. Stop pushing the ceiling upwards on a device with no real added capability.

Rant over.

It really isn't a rant! I think a ton agree.

This lineup has so much lack of focus and incredibly "forced" differentiation.

It needs a full reset and all your ideas are spot on, IMO.