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Foldable iPad is coming and could arrive in 2024, analyst says


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Your next iPad could be a folding model if analyst predictions are correct.

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According to Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple supply chain analyst, Apple will release a foldable iPad with a carbon fiber kickstand in 2024.

Kuo says the new foldable iPad will have a carbon fiber kickstand to make it lighter and more durable, presumably compared to the iPad’s Magic Keyboard. The stand will be manufactured by China’s Anjie Technology.

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“I’m positive about the foldable iPad in 2024 and hope this new model will drive sales and improve the product portfolio,” Kuo tweeted on Monday.

He also predicts that Apple will begin mass production of the updated iPad mini in the first quarter of 2024, but doesn’t expect any new iPad releases in the next 9 to 12 months.

Kuo modified a predict in advance in April last year that Apple would release a foldable iPhone in 2024 and said it could instead be a foldable iPad or an iPad-iPhone hybrid.

He changed his prediction for the foldable Apple after Display Supply Chain Consultants analyst Ross Young Last February said Apple is working on a foldable laptop with a 20-inch screen. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported at the time that Apple is exploring a dual-screen, foldable MacBook and iPad, with the second screen serving as a virtual keyboard. But he said Apple will likely release it in 2026.

Apple’s foldable iPad rumors come after Gurman’s January report that Apple is serious consider making MacBook Pro with touch screen — what Steve Jobs once said was an “ergonomically terrible” concept. However, touch screen capabilities have become commonplace for Windows laptops. Apple could release a touchscreen MacBook in 2025.

Apple holds several patents for foldable devices. Earlier this month, it was given another number. However, it has yet to ship any folding devices, which leaves it behind some of its main rivals. Samsung, whose Galaxy Flip and Fold dominate foldable sales, last year made some ads mocking Apple’s lack of folding devices around its iPhone 14 launch.

IDC . Technology Analyst Latest forecast for foldable smartphones, shipments will reach 41.5 million units in 2026, up 66% from the 8.1 million units shipped in 2021 and up from 13.5 million units in 2022. Foldable phones account for 1.1% of the total smartphone market. Former IDC guess foldable phone shipments will reach 27.6 million units by 2025.

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Flip-flops are more common now than the larger tablet-like format. Samsung said that 70% of Galaxy Fold buyers chose Flipand 30% chose Fold, when it announced that 10 million foldable smartphones had been sold by 2021.

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