Apple will soon announce iPad Pro with M2 & rumor that it is also working on developing a dock with smart speaker for iPad



Bloomberg's Mark Garman, who is familiar with Apple's leak information, reports that Apple will soon announce the `` iPad Pro with M2 chip '' and is also working on the development of `` a dock with a smart speaker for the iPad ''. .

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According to Garman, Apple will soon release 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros with the M2 chip. This is the first update for the iPad Pro in about a year and a half. With the M2 chip installed, the 2022 model iPad Pro will achieve a performance improvement of nearly 20% over the previous generation iPad Pro, and Garman said, ``Although there is no significant improvement in functionality compared to the M1-equipped iPad Pro, It's an update that can't be fooled.'

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The 2022 model iPad Pro will be a model with a flat edge design housing as before, and it seems that no major design changes will be made. In addition, Apple adopted the flat edge design for the first time on the iPad Pro from the iPad Pro that appeared in 2018.

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After that, in 2020, the flat edge design will be adopted for the iPad Air, which will be the middle range model of the iPad. However, the cheapest entry model iPad does not have a flat edge design even at the time of writing the article.

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However, Garman points out that Apple plans to adopt a flat-edge design and USB-C port on this entry-level iPad as well. If the iPad has a flat-edge design, 'it will receive the most important update in years, as entry-level iPads have only gotten a processor update once a year.' said Garman.

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On the software side, iPadOS 16.1, the iPad version of iOS 16, will be released on October 24, 2022, Garman said. Apple is scheduled to announce its quarterly financial results on October 27, 2022, and it usually announces new products days or weeks before this announcement, so it is possible that the new iPad Pro will be announced soon. is high, German speculates.

According to information Garman received from sources, Apple will release macOS Ventura alongside iPadOS 16.1, which will support the new MacBook Pro. However, the new MacBook Pro won't be available at the same time as the soon-to-be-announced iPad Pro, Garman said. It should be noted that Apple has released new Macs in November so far, so it is possible that 2022 will follow that practice.

Also, it is rumored that Apple is working on the development of a new Mac mini with M2, and if this is realized, the Mac mini will be updated for the first time in two years. In addition, a new Apple TV with an A14 chip and 4GB of memory is also under development, Garman said.

Apple has held iPad and Mac launch events around the end of the fall, but Garman predicts that 2022 will only be announced on the website without a launch event. Mr. Garman wrote that the reason for this is not only because there are few update elements for each terminal, but also because Apple is trying to save marketing costs because it is refraining from announcing the AR headset in 2023.

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Additionally, Apple plans to turn the iPad into a smart device hub and smart speaker, Garman said. Garman said that this will be a device with a speaker function that can be docked with the iPad, such as the Pixel Tablet announced by Google and the charging pedestal with built-in speaker. Apple seems to be planning to release a dock with speaker function for this iPad as early as 2023.



In addition, Apple is reportedly working on a new version of HomePod and a device that combines Apple TV and HomePod.

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