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[Gearbest News]On September 4, according to the “Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily”, well-known whistleblower Mark Gurman revealed that Apple originally planned to release a new 14-inch iPad this year, but it did not materialize in the end. Now this model The product is no longer in Apple's immediate product plans. Gurman said the transition to OLED displays for the iPad lineup is a complex issue that could lead to significantly higher costs for larger tablet displays.
Apple will hold an autumn new product launch conference at 1 a.m. on September 13, Beijing time. The protagonist will be the iPhone 15 series. It is also expected that a new Watch and AirPods will be unveiled, but there may be no new tablet products released.
According to Gurman’s revelation last month, in addition to the September conference, Apple is expected to have a conference next month, which is expected to bring a new iPad. In addition, he also revealed that Apple is stepping up testing of another Mac equipped with an M3 chip, which may be available as early as October. It is understood that this Mac has an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU and 24GB of memory, and may be the next generation Mac mini.
In fact, iPad sales are no longer as strong as in previous years, and Apple must do something. According to IDC data, Apple's tablet shipments still ranked first in the world in the second quarter of this year, but fell by 16.8% year-on-year. Gurman said that in order to change the current situation of sluggish sales of the tablet product line, Apple is preparing to squeeze out some major upgrades in the next-generation iPad Pro upgrade that have been rare in recent years.
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