Apple May Launch New 10.8″ iPad, and 9″ iPad Mini Soon: Ming-Chi Kuo
May. 15, 2020Apple may soon launch new iPads, including a new 10.8-inch iPad, and a larger iPad Mini with a screen size that’s probably 9-inches, according to famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s latest investor note.
As it currently stands, Apple’s iPad line-up consists of the iPad Mini, iPad Air, iPad, and iPad Pro, which got an upgrade earlier this year with LiDAR scanner and a Magic Keyboard. Thecurrent generation iPad Mini comes with a 7.9-inch screen, but if Kuo’s prediction is true, Apple seems to be thinking that the smallest tablet it offers should be at least 8.5 to 9 inches. Meanwhile, the7th-gen iPad has a 10.2-inch screen, and if Apple launches the 8th-gen iPad with a 10.8-inch display, that would make it bigger than the iPad Air’s 10.5-inch screen as well, not to mention, encroaching on the iPad Pro’s 11-inch display territory.
How Apple plans on streamlining its iPad line-up is unclear as of now, but the company’s line-up hasn’t been the most streamlined in recent years anyway, so maybe it’s embracing the chaos.
